Santo Domingo—The economic and social situation in which Haiti is developing represents a permanent danger for the Dominican Republic. The government takes appropriate measures to prevent, avoid, plan and prepare in terms of security to prevent Haitians from crossing to this side of the border.
Juan Pablo Uribe, president of the Permanent Commission of National Holidays (CPEP), expressed these concerns at an event at the National Pantheon for the 202nd anniversary of the Ephemeral Independence.
He said that in absolute terms Haiti is an ungovernable, failed territory. There is no institutionality, no civilized social coexistence, and armed gangs control or influence 70-80 percent of the territory, as admitted by authorities.
“The situation in Haiti represents a danger that we have known how to manage, overcome, prevent and prepare for in terms of security so that it does not reach the national territory,” said Sócrates Suazo, director of History, in the company of Colonel ERD, a military member of the Ministry of Defense, and Colonel Juan Lora, president of the Coronel Juan María Lora Fernández Foundation.
Due to the situation in the sister nation, Dominican authorities are deploying thousands of soldiers on the border. Construction of the border wall continues, along with other measures to control trade and migration flows.
The CPEP held an event at the National Pantheon to commemorate the 202nd anniversary of the Ephemeral Independence, from December 1, 1821 to February 9, 1822.
Uribe, when apologizing for the incident, said that this year, on the 202nd anniversary of the proclamation of independence led by José Núñez de Cáceres, it is remembered with special emphasis.
“We do it because of the conflictive relationship to which we are subjected due to the situation of social and institutional chaos and generalized Haitian violence that hangs like a sinister knife over the inflexible and well-guarded head of our border, where the homeland begins and ends,” Uribe proclaimed.
He said that the declaration of independence, headed by Núñez de Cáceres, was destroyed by the Haitian invasion that began on February 9, 1822, headed by Boyer, and that lasted as a disastrous occupation for 22 years, until the glorious February 27, 1844.