Former Central Bank governor José Lois Malkún calls for more attention to the impact the worsening of the chaos in Haiti is having on the Dominican Republic. “As Haiti sinks into chaos, we continue to be entertained by contested elections that have brought the official party to the brink of division,” he alerts. He urges the government to focus on pressuring the UN to keep troops in Haiti, or demand that European and North American countries do something to stop the chaos and misgovernment in that nation.
“Our economy is in recession, and the weight of uncontrolled immigration will cause everything to get complicated and out of control,” he warns.
The other side of the coin is the statement of blue helmet representative Jean-Pierre Lacrox who has said that when the UN troops leave, no one will be able to control the situation in Haiti.
Malkun forecast that the economic impact of increased immigration would create a humanitarian crisis.
“We must mobilize our ambassadors and representatives in multilateral financial organizations (IDB, WB, IMF, EEC), and politicians (UN and OAS), to compensate the country for the cost to the economy of this new wave of immigrants and efforts to stop the chaos in Haiti,” he wrote in an op-ed feature in Acento news portal.
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21 October 2019