Hoy newspaper’s Coctelera column comments on a past exchange of French President Jacques Chirac with President Fernandez. At the time, the French President commented he does not understand how there could be two very different nations on “an island of blacks and mulattoes”, and asked if it was true that Dominicans and Haitians constantly have problems. The writer, also comments on the occasion when the late President Joaquin Balaguer accused France of heading a movement, together with the US and Canada, to unify the island, after receiving information from a high ranking officer in the then PRD government who had been consulted in France about the convenience of unification.
The columnist says that a speculated intervention of the DR by the international community is an euphemism. “The Americans have not done well in any aspect of their intervention in Haiti. They are undoubtedly looking for a way out, but they are in a difficult position because things cannot be taken out of context. The author explains that the US cannot deploy more soldiers and thus they seek the support of the so-called international community. “The US wants to endorse Haiti to those countries, but for that they need strong control, control that would have to branch out to the Dominican Republic,” reads the commentary.