Haitian band of cattle rustlers ambushed and killed with a chest shot in an ambush at 8PM last friday night, Dominican Air Force sergeant Cornelio Guzmán riding his motorcycle going to work as commander of the Dajabón, CESFRONT post.
The band composed of five Haitians (two who spoke Spanish and appeared to be Dominicans) where armed with pistols and revolvers, according to eyewitnesses.
The career soldier had a history of rescueing many stolen cattle from Haitian cattle thieves and just the week before had a gun battle that scared away a band of persistent cattle rustlers.
(Gross photo of dead sergeant was removed).

Comment:
How come nobody makes a big deal of this murder? Because a Dominican was murdered this time?
Where are the protests of the international organizations, demanding justice?
A poor honest Dominican military life has not the same value as a Haitian?

2:15 PM -
DON MIGUEL, Dajabón.- Presuntos cuatreros mataron de un balazo en el pecho al sargento mayor de la Fuerza Aérea Dominicana, Cornelio Guzmán Ureña de 32 años, adscrito al Cuerpo Especializado de Seguridad Fronteriza (CESFRONT) la noche de este viernes. Los delincuentes también ataron y amordazaron a los jóvenes Juan Carlos Cordero de 22 años y Yajaira Jiménez de 19, quienes fueron despojados de una motocicleta cuando cruzaban por el lugar, el motor en que andaba el sargento y su arma de reglamento también fueron robados.

El sargento mayor de la fuerza aérea resultó muerto en una emboscada que les tendieron sus atacantes, cuando se dirigía al puesto militar de la comunidad, Don Miguel del cual era comandante.

El hecho ocurrió aproximadamente a las ocho de la noche, cuando transitaba hacia las proximidades del puente, sobre el río Masacre en Don Miguel.

Los asaltados que fueron rescatados con vida, dijeron a los militares, que el grupo estaba integrado por cinco hombres, tres haitianos y dos dominicanos y que estaban armados de pistolas y revólveres.

El cadáver del militar fue llevado a la morgue del hospital Matías Ramón Mella de Dajabón, de donde fue enviado a patología forense para practicarle una necroscopia.

La victima residía en el barrio militar de Dajabón, con la también miembro del ejército, Rosanna Rosalía, con quien había procreado dos hijos.

El sargento muerto estaba sindicado como el principal represor de los robos de ganados en la zona, el pasado fin de semana había rebatado a tiros cinco reses robadas a los cuatreros en el sector donde fue muerto.

Perhaps some of the Dominicans who live in DR can give me some info. as to why that area seems to be a perpetual hot spot regarding illegal activity. I know it's a border town, but is it like a wild west?
Why does it seem, at lease from the articles I read, that CESFRONT is somehow crippled in their abilities to fullfill their duties? Either by Jesuits or the local merchants?

@ generoso, no surprise. I'm not one to play the victim, but there is and has always been a gigantic hypocritical double standard with these things. I wonder if I too can use the race card.
I wonder what goes on in Leonels mind regarding this whole issue.

Hypocritical is just one of the terms that could be used, other ones are blackmail, railroaded, conned,
and we Dominicans are being used as condoms by the international community.
The border IS like the wild west, and it is getting worse because of the apathy of Dominicans, and the money hungry mafias that are running the show. Just recently the tree-cutting charcoal-burning criminals were exposed and nobody is doing anything to stop their crimes against nature and against our country.
The situation is reaching a boiling point and tensions in the border are high. I predicted all this many months ago when I suggested a more strict enforcement of our border, and all the Dominicans and their "friends" who were profiteering from this trade ganged up on me, and even tried to have me banned for a while. Strangely enough two Haitian friends were proactive and started the drive for my unbanning while some Dominicans just sat and watched in the benches.

GEN-"......all the Dominicans and their "friends" who were profiteering from this trade ganged up on me, and even tried to have me banned for a while.

This is very serious. I would not take this lightly. How can this be possible? I am appaled about the motivation behind this situation.

Why has Leonel been silence about the border conflicts. I don't recall any type of presidential statements past or present, what is going on here?

The NGO don't care about us, we shouldn't care about the haitians.... it's quite simple really!

For decades, there has been a news blackout of Haitian on Dominican crime, especially on Haitian on Dominican murders. Those who hide the truth from Dominicans and the rest of the world are doing so for reasons of their own, and the most egregious enablers are The Vicini family because they own the Dominican media, and bad Haitian press is no good for the sugar industry.


Just imagine if the Nationalities of the victim and the killers had been reversed. Just think for a second if a group Dominican guys murdered a Haitian woman. This would be the largest news story in the Dominican Republic for a week, but when it's someone else it is only a tiny blip in the local news and will be soon forgotten.

Generoso as always you stand for DR.

Here is another one.

Haitian kills Dominican for selling him dog meat
September 3rd, 2009 - 6:18 am ICT by IANS -

Santiago (Dominican Republic), Sep 3 (EFE) An illegal Haitian immigrant beat a Dominican man to death with a pick for supposedly selling him dog meat instead of goat meat, police said.
Jose Pie killed Ramon Antonio Rodriguez in Esperanza, a city in the northwestern province of Valverde.

Rodriguez got into a fight with several Haitians who were angry that they had eaten dog meat that had been sold to them as goat.

The Dominican threw a stone at Pie in the middle of the argument and fled.

Pie chased Rodriguez, found him in an Esperanza neighborhood and hit him several times in the head with the pick, killing him.

Police did not say whether Pie had been caught, but they noted that Rodriguez had problems in the past with several people who were sold dog and cat meat passed off as goat meat and chicken.

According to official figures, about a million Haitians live in Dominican Republic, most of them illegal immigrants who work in agriculture and construction.

The Dominican Republic and Haiti share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Though both countries are poor, Haiti is destitute, and Haitians cross the border to do work that many Dominicans will not do, such as harvesting sugar cane.

Haitians have been the target of mob violence numerous times in recent years, and the Dominican government has been widely criticized for its treatment of the migrants.



Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/haitian-kills-dominican-for-selling-him-dog-meat_100242004.html#ixzz0VmAIYv5V

You know general, a part of me longs for them to make one of their famous uprisings on our own backyard, cuz' maybe, and just maybe, people here will wake up and finally get wind about the magnitude of the problem that the intl. community, along with some local mercenaries, sell-outs and turncoats, is slowly but steadily shoving through our collective throats. One of our most perverse national vices is represented by our tendency to wait for the problems to get out of hand before setting ourselves to the task of solving them, as in, we let them to go off like grenades in our hands instead of doing the sensible thing and throw the grenade away from us. The politicians and other economic moguls profitting from this slave labour have lulled the people into sleeping so effectively that I fear we might end up without a country and nationality without us being the wiser a decade from now, and this is a conservative prediction, cuz' this might happen in a shorter timespan if our enemies get impatient (specially with the political situation on haitian soil getting out of hand).

Wise words, from a wise scholar, Lautaro. We Dominicans are "sleeping at the helm" and our country's ship has no direction. We have a "laissez faire" professorial-intellectual government that is not hands on, and wants to please everybody, as political whores, just to stay in power.
Haiti's situation is imploding, the PM there was just removed by Preval, and the border situation is getting explosive. Millions of Haitians are desperately fleeing to wherever they can, to escape hunger, and most of them are coming to DR.
The Haitians are getting more and more violent, since lawlessness prevails at the border, meanwhile we are being hounded by the "politically correct", paid robotic clones, and Jesuit priests, shouting "racism" whenever we want to complain about the relentless export of the Haitian poor, sick and homeless to the DR.
We are turning our heads the other way and not trying to look at all the Haitians illegally in our country, in every corner, and we are in a state of "national denial", like the alcoholics, not accepting that the Haitian "friendly invasion" has turned into an aggressive and demanding occupation, burning our trees and elbowing themselves, at our already crowded dinner table.

This is the last straw!! An officer doing his duties as all should have gets killed.
Are these Haitians killers and thieves sending a message!! And the government is not getting it!

Definitely, this is setting a bad example that must not be tolerated.