The National Federation of Dominican Transport (Fenatrado) has complained about what it calls “the repeated aggression” against Dominican truck drivers taking cargo to Haiti. Fenatrado said that in the majority of cases the driver and his assistants are beat up and the merchandise stolen. Ricardo de los Santos, president of Fenatrado, said that this attacks have been going on for years and that the Haitian government has done nothing to protect Dominican truck drivers, nor to arrest those responsible.
He went on to say that the last case was when Dominican semi trailers were stopped and one of the drivers, José Altagracia de Oleo Zabala, was shot twice and had to undergo emergency surgery in a hospital near Cap Haitian where he is still in a serious condition.
He complained the fact that nothing is done to stop the violence or arrest those responsible shows a total lack of interest on the part of the Haitian government to protect the lives and property of the Dominican truck drivers. He added that the shipments of food, cement, metal bars, medicines have never been returned.
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El Dia
21 November 2018
