dominican - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T20:22:14Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/dominicanNo Mention Here In the USA Of Haitians Forced to Flee Dominican Republic for Haitihttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/no-mention-here-in-the-usa-of-haitians-forced-to-flee-dominican2015-12-18T04:47:25.000Z2015-12-18T04:47:25.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB Commentary:</span> Sometimes it is hard for me to wrap my head around the dichotomy that the US calls foreign policy. On one hand they support "freedom fighters" who want to dispose of an evil dictator, on the other hand they prop up evil dictators and guarantee them long life and protection.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">In the case of immigration they want to take in Syrians, whom they have no idea what type of social ills they may bring to this country or how many of them may be disgruntled refugees ready to be radicalized, and yet, not far away to the south of the US are poor and starving people, not terrorist but folks who are suffering unfathomable obscenity due to their position on top of tremendous, gas, oil and various other mineral reserves. I am so struck by this and often find myself in a quandary to make sense of it.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Then like clockwork, the little voice inside my head reminds me of what the geopolitical priority of the US & NATO are really based on. And while these "facts" may give way to lesser confusion, it still boggles my mind.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="23" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s200/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="200" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profiles/blogs/forced-to-flee-dominican-republic-for-haiti-migrants-land-in" target="_blank">No Mention Here In the USA Of Haitians Forced to Flee Dominican Republic for Haiti, Migrants Land in Limbo Because they are not Latino Or Syrian</a></div><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">Posted by </span><a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profile/ElBull"><span style="color:#d1c3b6;font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">El-Bull</span></a><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"> on December 14, 2015 at 5:04am</span><br /> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c2OyZktXcDY/VnIsqQ5T6lI/AAAAAAACUJo/Vk3cT1bHTuo/s1600/Tent%2BCities.jpg" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c2OyZktXcDY/VnIsqQ5T6lI/AAAAAAACUJo/Vk3cT1bHTuo/s320/Tent%2BCities.jpg" width="320" alt="Tent%2BCities.jpg" /></a></div>Along this arid strip of borderland, the river brings life. Its languid waters are used to cook the food, quench the thirst and bathe the bodies of thousands of Haitian migrants who have poured onto its banks from the Dominican Republic, fleeing threats of violence and deportation.<br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;">These days, the river also brings death. Horrid sanitation has led to a cholera outbreak in the camps, infecting and killing people who spilled over the border in recent months in hopes of finding refuge here. </span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;">Nearly 3,000 people have arrived in the makeshift camps since the spring, leaving the Dominican Republic by force or by fear after its government began a crackdown on illegal migrants. Some, born in the Dominican Republic but unable to prove it, cannot even speak French or Creole, Haiti’s main languages, showing how wide a net the Dominican government has cast.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;">Haitian officials have done almost nothing to support them. The population is scattered across the drought-racked southwest border, mostly barren plains. Families of eight sleep in tents fashioned from sticks and cardboard. They drink river water, struggle to find food, and make do without toilets or medical attention.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6tDmGGikFg/VnIne5npK1I/AAAAAAACUJY/o7lmIG0qsdQ/s1600/Dominican%2BBlacks%2BRefugees.jpg" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6tDmGGikFg/VnIne5npK1I/AAAAAAACUJY/o7lmIG0qsdQ/s320/Dominican%2BBlacks%2BRefugees.jpg" width="320" alt="Dominican%2BBlacks%2BRefugees.jpg" /></a>Families wash clothes in the river that runs by Tête à l’Eau, Haiti, where many who fled the Dominican Republic have settled. CreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Now stateless, the refugees exist in the literal and figurative space between two nations that, along with their island, share a history steeped in hostility. Some of the camps were created decades ago, during another iteration of their troubled pasts, but had long since been abandoned. Now, in a new cycle of tension between the nations, they are packed to capacity once again.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The plight along the border is reminiscent, on a smaller scale, of the devastating 2010 earthquake, which claimed the lives of 100,000 to 316,000 Haitians and summoned a wave of billions of dollars in aid. Even today, more than 60,000 displaced people still reside in tent cities around the country.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Only this time, the upheaval is man-made, the result of the policies of the Dominican Republic and the seeming indifference of the Haitian government. The authorities in Haiti do not even formally recognize that the camps exist.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">“I haven’t felt normal since my son died,” said David Toussaint, 55, whose 9-year-old boy was one of at least 10 people in the camps to die of cholera. Officials say more than 100 people have been infected.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">He lifted himself from a bed his family built in their tent, covered with a frayed tarp. He spends his days there, immobilized by grief. An acrid smell filled the hot air as dust swirled into the tent, cloaking everything.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">“This is no way to live,” he said.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">When the Dominican government announced that all migrants in the country illegally had to register this June, mass deportations were feared. Those later rounded up were taken largely from remote areas, and bused quietly to border crossings. In total, more than 10,000 people were expelled officially, with nearly another 10,000 people claiming to have been kicked out as well, according to the International Organization for Migration.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in 0in 0in .375in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">But in this climate of fear, an even bigger phenomenon emerged: Tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent decided to leave the Dominican Republic on their own, rather than risk deportation, including some who were born on Dominican soil and knew nothing of Haiti. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Read More: <a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profiles/blogs/forced-to-flee-dominican-republic-for-haiti-migrants-land-in">http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profiles/blogs/forced-to-flee-dominican-republic-for-haiti-migrants-land-in</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="23" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s200/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="200" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:17pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:17pt;margin:0in;"><b>Why Is Haiti So Poor</b></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Published on Mar 5, 2013</div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Hugo Chavez shares thoughts of why Haiti is poor. The following is a transcript of the speech given prior to Hugo Chavez's death on March 05, 2013. Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías born on July 28, 1954 - passed away on March 5, 2013)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mos6SY1XtLM" style="font-size:14pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mos6SY1XtLM</a></div><div style="margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mos6SY1XtLM?wmode=opaque"></iframe> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Vive Haiti!</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Haiti, the Black Jacobins, that of Toussaint Louverture.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Haiti that of Pétion.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Haiti, from where Miranda arrived with our flag, it, and a dream of several years, and a project: the South American revolution.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Haiti, that of Bolivar.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Haiti, that of the expeditions of Los Cayos, sister Haiti, Haiti, painful reality.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Fidel Castro, as always, continues to launch his thoughts, his ideas, his contributions to the world in which we live. And this afternoon I received - this morning, rather - the reflections of Fidel, his most recent.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Fidel said, permit me to read some of these deep thoughts of our companion, comrade, commander.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I read: "The tragedy excites, in good faith, a lot of people, specially because of its natural character. But very few of them stop and ask the question: why Haiti is a poor country?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Why does the population depend almost 50% on orders sent from the outside by its families.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Why not also analyze the realities that led to the current situation of Haiti and its enormous suffering? "</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I would add that this painful moment seems opportune to reflect and get to the bottom of things: why haiti is so poor?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Why is there so much misery in Haiti?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I continue reading Fidel:</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">"The most curious in this story is that nobody said a word to remember that Haiti was the first country in which enslaved Africans 400,000 of them, trafficked by Europeans, rose against white owners 30,000 plantation sugar cane and coffee, fulfilling the first great social revolution of our hemisphere. Pages of unsurpassable glory could be written around the earth.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The most eminent general was defeated, Napoleon, out there. Haiti is the net product colonialism. Haiti is the net product of colonialism and imperialism, of more than a century of use of its human resources in the hardest work, of military interventions and the extraction of its wealth.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">This historical oblivion is not so serious to the reality which is that Haiti is the shame for our time, in a world where those prevail on the exploitation and plundering of the vast majority of the inhabitants of the planet. "</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">And then continues in Fidel and his reflections by launching rays of light that lives for this moment humanity. But it is by here we start:</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">"Haiti is a net product of colonialism. Haiti is a product of imperialism. As not only will complete colonialism, as not only will complete imperialism, and I go further: as not only will complete capitalism, we have situations and people living the painful situation facing Haiti."</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I confess my personal experience, when several years, for the first time, we visited Haiti. I confess, I wanted to cry myself. With one of my companions, I went to see these people in the street, with elation, hope, magic and misery, and I remembered a phrase that came out of the soul, I told my companion nearest the descent of a van - we wanted to walk for a while and we ended up running into a street - I told him: look, mate, the gates of hell, inhabited by black angels.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Because it is a people full of it: this is an angelic people.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I ratify what President Sylia has decreed: while our commitment to our people, all the people, the Venezuelan people are with Haiti, the Bolivarian revolution is with the people of Haiti, with its pain, with its tragedy, with its hope.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">— in Caracas, Distrito Federal.<br /><div style="font-size:14pt;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="23" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s200/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="200" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://dailysignal.com/category/international">INTERNATIONAL</a> <span style="color:#706f72;">COMMENTARY</span></div><div style="color:#3c3c3c;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Border Tensions Are on the Rise Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><br /> <a href="http://dailysignal.com/author/jroberts/">James M. Roberts</a> <span style="color:#999999;">/ October 02, 2015 / </span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">Excerpt: "This summer, officials in the Dominican Republic (DR) began </span><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/19/uk-haiti-dominican-deportees-idUKKCN0RJ05R20150919">deporting Haitian migrants</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> and Dominican-born but undocumented people of Haitian descent.</span><a href="http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/14847/internal-exile-the-plight-of-dominicans-of-haitian-descent">That decision has received wide attention</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">, and the DR government of Danilo Medina </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/07/27/426842554/south-florida-haitians-protest-deportations-in-dominican-republic">has been criticized by human rights activists</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">For some Haitians, the deportation order invoked memories of the notorious</span><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article25460362.html">Parsley Massacre</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> of 1937, when Dominican President Trujillo ordered troops to kill thousands of Haitian migrants living along the border of the two countries.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">The rekindling of old racial conflicts </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/28/stop-arbitrary-deportations-dominicans-haitian-descent-united-nations">under the new DR deportation policy</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> may be </span><a href="http://www.eldiario.es/contrapoder/limpieza_etnica_caribena_6_430516952.html">a populist attempt to stoke support</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> during </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/14/fear-mass-deportation-from-dominican-republic-to-haiti-prompts-many-to-leave-on/">stagnant economic times</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> in advance of </span><a href="http://www.bostonhaitian.com/columns/2015/dominican-republic-has-long-history-using-haitians-political-foils">2016 presidential election in the DR</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">. The Obama administration has reportedly </span><a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/08/246137.htm">leaned heavily</a><span style="color:#3c3c3c;"> on Medina’s government to ease the deportation order."</span></div><br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#3c3c3c;">Read More:</span> <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/02/border-tensions-are-on-the-rise-between-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic/">http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/02/border-tensions-are-on-the-rise-between-haiti-and-the-dominican-republic/</a></div></div></div></div></div>To US: control drug consumption, pleasehttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/to-us-control-drug-consumption2010-08-27T23:30:00.000Z2010-08-27T23:30:00.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><strong><br /></strong></font></font><p><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><strong><br /></strong>The Ministry of Foreign Relations says that the increase in drug trafficking in the DR is the result of demand for drugs from the United States. Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso was reacting to a statement by the US Embassy charge d'affaires Christopher Lambert who recently commented on the participation of drug trafficking in the Dominican economy.<br /><br />Morales said that if there is an increase in drug trafficking here it is because of the large demand for drugs in the US, as reported in El Dia. Morales said that before criticizing other countries, US diplomats should look and see what is happening in their own nation, where there is a high level of drug consumption. "We have to put a stop to production of drugs, use of transshipment countries but also there is a need to put a stop to consumption," said Morales Troncoso.<br /><br />He said the US allocates an insufficient amount of funds towards combating drug trafficking and expressed regret that the producer and transshipment countries now have to bear the larger part of the blame for criminal activities related to drug trafficking. <br /><br />Morales said that drug trafficking was the main issue discussed during President Leonel Fernandez's meeting with President Barrack Obama at the White House. <br /><br />He said during the meeting, Fernandez offered the DR as a venue for hosting a conference where heads of state could agree on regional measures. "I believe the heads of government need to see each other face to face. Above all to stop consumption there need to be clear measures. Then, we will see production and trafficking disappear," he said, as reported in Listin Diario. <br /><br />Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier said: "It is true that there is a serious and apparently insurmountable problem with drugs in the US and some say that if controls were imposed on drugs they would have very serious political problems that would even destabilize governance," as reported in El Dia. He estimated the value of drugs entering the US market at US$400 billion and said that it is their obligation to control this in the same way as with terrorism. <br /><br />Almeyda said: "Drugs are a business that has an excellent market in the US and that country is responsible for controlling that market," he said. <br />Morales Troncoso said that the US has budgeted US$40 million to counteract drug trafficking, but he said that amount is insufficient and drug consumption needs to be controlled.</font></font></p>
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