Only two of the residents in the barrio built by a charitable organization in Puerto Plata province are Dominican, according to a follow-up report in Diario Libre. Provincial governor Ivan Rivera said the investigative commission sent by the government was able to confirm this after speaking to residents of the Los Algodones community. The neighborhood is known as Villa Esperanza. As reported in El Caribe, several of the residents have been living in Los Algodones since 2008.
The governor says that the claim made in Diario Libre that the organization was settling undocumented Haitians is very much what they saw. He said they would file a report to the Ministry of Interior and Police.
The commission also visited the communities of Villa Paraiso I and II, Maranata, Villa Manuel, Villa Betances and Nazaret, where housing has also been built with donations from the Samaritan Foundation. Most of the beneficiaries in these neighborhoods are Dominican, as reported in City Santiago website (El Caribe group).
Diario Libre had pointed out the contradiction in the neighborhood being built with Canadian donations for undocumented Haitians at a time when the Dominican Republic government is offering free legalization facilities for undocumented migrants to regularize their status. The commission also included officials from the Immigration, Naturalization Department of the Ministry of Interior and Police, and the mayors of Montellano, Sosua and Puerto Plata as well as the Police general for the northern region, General Rommel Lopez.
http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2015/01/08/i959221_solo-dos-los-residentes-los-algodones-son-dominicanos.html
http://www.citysantiago.com/2015/01/08/descendientes-haitianos-defienden-ante-comision-derecho-viviendas#.VK8tmEvxj7I