Declared a persona non-grata for his campaigns exhalting stateless status of immigrants from Haiti in the Dominican Republic, the UNHCR has announced the imminent departure of office head Gonzalo Vargas Llosa. Vargas Llosa arrived in 2010 after the Fernandez administration authorized the opening of the UNHCR office. In the past, Dominican governments had rejected the office, but the Fernandez administration gave the go ahead after the earthquake in Haiti. The argument was that there are only economic refugees in the DR.
Vargas Llosa had been in the post since January 2010 and said he leaves upon the termination of his contract. Following the announcement of the Constitutional Court ruling 168-13, his father, Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa also wrote an article blasting the Dominican Republic in defense of human rights of the impoverished immigrants.