President Luis Abinader once again called for the United States, Canada and France to assume leadership positions in the worsening of the economic, social and political situation in Haiti. Abinader sought to drive home “the dramatic situation in Haiti” and how the Americas is allowing that gangs control Haiti. In the past, President Abinader has said what has been allowed is the “Somalization of Haiti.”
The US government invited the acting Prime Minister of Haiti Ariel Henry to attend the Summit, but did not invite Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela to attend for the lack of democracy in those three countries.
In his address to the plenary of the 9th Summit of the Americas, President Luis Abinader once again pressed the point that the Dominican Republic cannot shoulder Haiti’s problems alone. The Dominican Republic shares a 380-km land border with Haiti.
“The Haitian people are suffering the consequences of the instability and insecurity that the gangs have generated and that forces its citizens to look for other alternatives to survive,” said President Abinader in Los Angeles, California.
“In fact, the Dominican Republic is already doing too much, much more than it can. The situation in the neighboring country has gone beyond the limits of a migratory problem. It is, for Dominicans, an issue of national security, so we will do what is necessary, as any sovereign country would do in the face of a similar threat, to adequately secure our border,” he said.
He said that Haiti, which has historically paid dearly for its debts with developed countries, cries out for a coordinated action to bring peace to that country: the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. “It is for me and our government unjustifiable that this community of nations allows a state, in the middle of the American continent, to have a large part of its territory controlled by criminal gangs,” stated Abinader.
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Noticias SIN
13 June 2022