{"id":167305,"date":"2021-10-29T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167305"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:36:59","slug":"border-trade-down-big-with-haiti-petrol-scarcity-make-a-bad-situation-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/29\/border-trade-down-big-with-haiti-petrol-scarcity-make-a-bad-situation-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Border trade down big with Haiti; petrol scarcity make a bad situation worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mercado-Binacional-N-Digital-e1635514609740.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167333\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the very real security threat, especially now that criminal gangs are in control in Haiti, the Dominican Republic is hurting economically. Haiti is the country&#8217;s second most important export market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N Digital reports that the binational markets in Dajab\u00f3n Jiman\u00ed and Pedro Santana in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a say trade is hurting big in the border towns, where most of the land goods are sold to Haitian merchants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation is grim for binational commerce. As reported in N Digital, the market of Dajab\u00f3n, considered the most important, was paralyzed on Monday, 25 October 2021, according Dajab\u00f3n city mayor, Santiago River\u00f3n. This market has lost more than RD$150 million in just one week since the crisis has become uncontrollable, while the losses in perishable products amount to RD$30 million pesos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jiman\u00ed mayor Dionisy M\u00e9ndez told N Digital that the sales in that market are down 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hip\u00f3lito Valenzuela, the mayor of Pedro Santana in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, explains that Dominican merchants have not been supplying the Los Cacaos market because of security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valenzuela says the scarcity of fuel in Haiti is worsening the situation. He said merchants from Haiti are not buying because they cannot transport their articles back to Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the mayors, &#8220;Haiti is a time bomb.&#8221; They fear that the DR will pay the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is already paying part of the price of the Haitian crisis, according to Valenzuela of El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a. The mayor denounced a massive displacement of Haitians, who are crossing the countryside to reach Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They warned that if the food shortage worsens, Haitian gangs will carry out looting in the Dominican Republic. The mayors urged the government step up the monitoring of the situation in Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2021\/10\/28\/mercado-binacional-de-dajabon-deja-de-percibir-mas-de-150-millones-de-pesos-por-crisis-en-haiti\/\">N Digital<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the very real security threat, especially now that criminal gangs are in control in Haiti, the Dominican Republic is hurting economically. Haiti is the country&#8217;s second most important export market. N Digital reports that the binational markets in Dajab\u00f3n Jiman\u00ed and Pedro Santana in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a say trade is hurting big in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/10\/29\/border-trade-down-big-with-haiti-petrol-scarcity-make-a-bad-situation-worse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167335,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167305\/revisions\/167335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}