A Chilean soldier with the United Nations Minustah peacekeeping force in Haiti was shot dead yesterday, Monday 13 April 2015 on the border. Rodrigo Andres Sanhueza Soto was in a vehicle at the Ouanaminthe-Dajabon border crossing point with his United Nations peacekeeping unit when a group of Haitian protestors opened fire and seized Sanhueza’s gun and that of another policeman who was injured in the incident. A Chilean military officer is traveling to Haiti today, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 to investigate the case. Sanhueza was married with two children, aged 10 and 3, according to a Minustah press release.
As reported in El Caribe, the peacekeeper was injured when his unit came across a group of Haitian protestors. The secretary general of Dominican trucking union Fenatrado said that the protestors also forced four drivers who were crossing the border at the time to leave their trucks.
El Caribe speculates that this was a clash between political groups, with protestors using the trucks to block access for hundreds of traders who were on their way to Dajabon for market day.
Fenatrado reacted by using a container to block the border gate at Dajabon. Fenatrado said that one of the cargo containers with US$90,000 worth of textiles was looted.
Miembro de la Minustah muere y policía resulta herido en protesta entre haitianos