Hundreds of Haitians protested outside the Haitian Embassy yesterday, Wednesday 20 August 2014 demanding that President Michel Martelly order Haitian identity documentation to be issued free of charge. They need the documentation in order to apply for the National Foreigner Legalization Plan in the Dominican Republic.
As reported in Diario Libre, the group marched down Avenida Maximo Gomez from Nicolas de Ovando Street to the Haitian Embassy on Calle Juan Sanchez Ramirez, near the UASD University in Santo Domingo, to demand that the Haitian government issue them with birth certificates, passports and identity documents free of charge. They believe that the Haitian government owes them a social and economic debt because it had contracted them as temporary laborers to work in sugar cane fields in the Dominican Republic.
Jesus Nunez was the spokesman for the cane field workers.
A commission of the cane workers was received by Haitian Ambassador Fritz Cineas who said he would channel the request to President Martelly.
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