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SANTO DOMINGO. – The Dajabón province parish priest and the coordinator of the Border Solidarity Center on Tuesday warned of an imminent avalanche of famished Haitians into Dominican Republic, mostly from a food shortage in that zone of the neighboring country after the binational was market closed to protect against the cholera epidemic.

The priests David Pantaleón and Regino Martinez said the government must open the facilities built by the European Union to locate the market, as well as the binational bridge. “It’s unthinkable to close the North border because that would cause an avalanche of undocumented people with unpredictable consequences.”  

They said if the Haitian situation is further delayed, “an explosion could be the result” and from the anxiety and aggressiveness that side of the border will feel once trade between Dominicans and Haitians is halted. “The conditions are given for an avalanche to occur.”

Martinez also reiterated the corruption and trafficking of undocumented people continues, adding that Haitians pay Dominican Border guards just 5,000 pesos to be let across.

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38 comment(s)
Written by: Lopez31, 9 Nov 2010 2:51 PM
From: United States
We complain about the Dominican government structures, yes they are corrupt, but at least we have a structure that at times does its job. The Haitian government is pure garbage, that country needs a revolution where all its institutions are wiped out and started from scratch. We must put blame on the haitian people for being so comformative to these scums. Wake the F up and do something for yourself and stop relying on the international community.
Written by: xwill7, 9 Nov 2010 3:41 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
They need more farm animals on that side.
Written by: Atabey, 9 Nov 2010 3:51 PM
From: United States, NYC
I've been posting articles and news feeds of an impending disaster of epic proportions in the making. Haiti is on the verge of TOTAL COLLAPSE! This means that even the pretensions of a State will be hallow. No one will act as if a State exists. AND That's a huge set of BIG Problems for the DR.
Written by: ny4life, 9 Nov 2010 4:11 PM
From: United States, New York, NY
Atabey,

What are your solutions?
Written by: ny4life, 9 Nov 2010 4:24 PM
From: United States, New York, NY
Haitian people are submissive. What have they done to challenge the status-quo? Proud disapora where are you? Why haven't you put pressure on your country via International Organziations like you do on the Dominican Republic???

Slavery, discrimination, insecurity, crime, lack of education and healthcare in Haiti but no Haitians or NGO has gone through International channels to denounce the Haitian government or people.

Why the double standard with the DR? Why attack DR when Haiti is the root of the problem? Very cowardly indeed.

Haitians have NO PRIDE in HAITI. They don't believe HAITI can work. They have no HOPE in HAITI. HAITIAN pride is in the disapora not on the ISLAND. A very DISCONNECTED disapora that has not done ENOUGH to change ANYTHING in HAITI.

HOW SAD such a self-proclaim PROUD people have no hope or WILL to change HAITI
Written by: Juango, 9 Nov 2010 4:25 PM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
This is potentially the largest destabilizing threat to the DR at this very moment. Even larger than the drug trafficking business. Can you imagine 250K haitians in a week crossing over the border requiring food & shelter. Every chicken, pig, cow & mango tree will become an endangered species !!

DR must address this threat immediately, as there are too many openingss to crosss the border unchecked. All gringos will become targets along with the dominicans.
Written by: Atabey, 9 Nov 2010 4:26 PM
From: United States, NYC
Visas Para un million de Suenos Haitianos. 100,000 Visas per year for ten (10) years will break the back of the population problem in Haiti. 40K to USA, 30K to Europe, and 30K to Africa. And create a huge export based trade zone that covers pretty much all of Haiti. low pay jobs are infinitely better than having all these "do-gooders" roaming around and "showing" Haitians the way forward. Bring in capitalists give them good terms, the USA and Europe to allow open markets for exports from the ENTIRE ISLAND, since the DR has been contributing to the Haitian Problem "solution" by housing over a million Haitians.
Written by: Yucahu, 9 Nov 2010 5:06 PM
From: United States, Miami
The Haitians destroyed their country, now they want to destroy the DR. It's that simple. You can see it. The Haitian government doesn't exist and Haitians are just running wild. And any Haitian who now tries to excuse the behavior of their countrymen are just as criminal as they are. Come on Haitians this is your time to fix your SHYTE. Stop being women and man the EFF UP. You can't just keep destroying and crying like little girls. BE MEN....BIATCHES...
Written by: Yucahu, 9 Nov 2010 5:07 PM
From: United States, Miami
I love to hear those foreigners who say
Haitians are so clever they can do anything....I'll believe it when I see it....
Written by: old_school_trinitario, 9 Nov 2010 5:13 PM
From: Dominican Republic, San Carlos, barrio de matatanes, aqui no invente

Haiti is a failed state , always been a failed state and for the next 100 yrs the Dominican Republic is going to have to suck that guayaba sea verde pintona o madura.

Written by: Lopez31, 9 Nov 2010 5:24 PM
From: United States
The blame should definitely lie on the the people! But lets not forget and new and improved haiti = a much better and improved Rebublic Dominicana.
Written by: PatDiamond, 9 Nov 2010 5:38 PM
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
@Atabey

Haiti is on the verge of total collapse
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WTF are you talking about, is this the typical shit talking Dominican coming out. Vietel the Vietnamese government telephone company just spend 50mil USD to buy a 60% equity stake in Teleco the Haitian National phone company( another 50mil usd aside for modernization). This deal was finalized after the earthquake. Do you know any multinational Co who invest capital and countries that are on the verge of total collapse. That F$%CK market is no more than an economic activities center for that town. Have you heard of Cap Haitien.
Written by: Atabey, 9 Nov 2010 6:06 PM
From: United States, NYC
Pat,

cool down Man. When I stated that Haiti is on the verge of total Collapse, this is my assessment of the approaching discombobulation of the little societal links still left after the earthquake. So little has happened in terms of getting the place moving forward that even with the very close devastation risks that last weeks Hurricane Tomas touched Haiti with, the cholera epidemic may well be working a far worse scenario for Haiti as we speak. The fact that this deadly malady was brought into Haiti by foreign peace-keepers will not long remain a localized event IF the epidemic unleashes its full force upon the huge unsanitary camps that litter Haiti today. And then what? How will this approaching storm be met? That's my point.

As for How to get Haiti better, my million Visas para un sueno is as solid as any given the huge upside to Haiti.
Written by: DONT_BE_SILENT, 9 Nov 2010 6:22 PM
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Ata,
you're wrong! "on the verge of total colapse" There's gotta be another level beyong total colapse for Haiti.
Pat,
I say this with a lot of respect. It just the reality of Haiti.

My deepest desire is to see a prosperous Haitian nation so that we don't have to absorb Haiti's misery anymore.
One investment does not reverse decades of fairlure. You have to be smarter than that.
Haiti never had any infrastructure, even before the quake. Haiti needs a Marshall Plan to get it on its feet.
Written by: PatDiamond, 9 Nov 2010 6:55 PM
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
@ Atabey

Glad to see you make your point clearer I do not expect any less from you at all time.

@Dont be silent

Yes you are on the money Haiti is a country that have been totally mismanaged for the last 50years the fact that both countries GDP per capital 800usd was the same up to 1960 is proof of that. Yes Haiti needs a Marshall Plan it is what is happening on the ground right now( nation building). worst than anything else what killed us specially in the last 20 years is the total lack of political stability which made the place not attractive to foreign investments. The fact this month we are having a second consecutive democratic election even under these circumstance is a step in the right direction( no more coups). Prior to the Jan 12 quake there was an economic plan approved by the Int'l community which was working it was a 10 years program. In fact it was begin to bear fruits foreign Capital were starting to trickle in. Confidence was coming back.
Written by: PatDiamond, 9 Nov 2010 7:07 PM
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
contl'l

For the first time since Francois Duvalier the Haitian Elite felt it had an equity stake in the development of Haiti,and was willing to invest its money back in the country. Not simply stashing it away in place like Antigua where they ended getting f$%ck by Allen Stanford to the tun of 200Mil USD.
Written by: DONT_BE_SILENT, 9 Nov 2010 7:21 PM
From: Dominican Republic, NEVER FORGOTTEN, NEVER FORSAKEN!
Pat

Haiti's number one resource is its people(the working class) if they ever implement a solid agriculture program it could be the begining to Haiti's recovery. I know for a fact that Haitians are hard working. Give everybody a peace of land with the tools and the seeds to produce and the future would look brighter for Haiti and its people.
Written by: HaitianDominicanPuertorican, 9 Nov 2010 8:44 PM
From: Puerto Rico, United States, HAITI, Puerto Rico
Up until the 1980's Haiti produced about 80% of it's own rice and it's agricultural sector was one of the most productive in the caribbean then the U.S. forced it's foreign policy and flooded Haitian markets with U.S. imports and also adding tariffs which caused thousands of farmers to go out of business causing poverty to rise. This earthquake might have been a blessing in disguise because as a comment I read above, Haiti and DR, at one point had an equal GDP per cap at one point. Everything has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Once the elections are complete and preval's corrupt ass is out of office, money should start flowing in and the rubble being moved out and the country should getting up on its feet. There's billions of dollars still in the pipeline that hasnt been released and nearly three dozen projects planned for Haiti (water purification plants, textile factories, hotels, schools, hospitals, roads, advancement to the shipyards around the capital, etc.). It'll get better.
Written by: WalterPolo, 9 Nov 2010 9:25 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
All the proposed solutions are worth looking at. They might save Haiti in time.

I agree with Atabey regarding his depopulation plan. This also might work, if the host countries are ready to receive hordes of ill, ill-prepared, disorganized and uneducated immigrants.

Meanwhile, the border is about to explose, people are hungry, sick, becoming agressive and downright dangerous.

And they keep churning out babies.

This the now problem. How do we address it?
Written by: UnderCover, 9 Nov 2010 10:41 PM
From: United States, FEEL THE RUSH...RIDE YOUR MTB!
A Border? Couple of more years this will be an Island without borders thats the only common sense remedy for the haitian people.... Wake up, it's only a matter of time, and deal with it.

The Europeans and the U.S.A aren't doing anything for Haiti. It's all P.R. work and BS hype at is best like always. All they are providing are the bandages, and filtered water, and temporary first aid. Five - Ten years from now Haiti will still be the dumping ground of the western world, but only if it still exists as HAITI.
Written by: mrchivo, 9 Nov 2010 10:45 PM
From: United States
Haiti=Racism=Failed State
Written by: Atabey, 9 Nov 2010 11:19 PM
From: United States, NYC


I'm pessimistic. Few people understand how close a situation of mass violence and killing, societal breakdown was in the works had Tomas hit Haiti along the shanty camp sites with full force. Haiti and DR dodged a terrifying situation. But there's only a momentary reprieve because slowly working within the waters of many flooded camps is the invisible cholera epidemic. That invisible malady may yet create an explosive outburst that initiates a total collapse of the little State there exists in Haiti. With potentially hundreds of thousands marching towards the East and betterment. What will and can DR do? Terrifying thoughts. DR/international Community had better have contingency plans worked out, this has all the markings of an humanitarian disaster cum revolutionary situation. The inferno could erupt with massive deaths from cholera and its by now almost assured transmission into Haiti by peace-keeping troops from the Nepal region. Interesting times ahead. :(
Written by: Yucahu, 9 Nov 2010 11:53 PM
From: United States, Miami
When your hungry cold and pissed all you can think about is how to get warm, fed and happy. If that means stealing, killing, lying, vandalism and cheating you will do it....Guess what the Haitians in DR are doing? So yes they are hard working, working really really hard to destroy the DR.
Of course big companies are going to invest in Haiti, they can now do whatever the hell the want and all the people who could have maybe stopped them are DEAD, they we're buried in the quake. Haiti lost it's best and it's brightest in that quake and they can never be replaced. Touche, dommage....
Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 10 Nov 2010 1:24 AM
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
It'sonly a matter of time!

regino Martinez sj (jesuites) and his JRS: JESUIT RELIEF SERVICES in DR: they call it Border Solidarity when all logic identifies this criminal character and his jesuit agenda as subversive to any sovereign nation. Tthis same regino was suppossedly detained recently when he attempted to attend a jesuit indoctrination in Miami; Funny but they didn't fall for his game in Florida and treated his priest-ness like a common illegal alien and gave him a provisional permit to stay until he got back to Capital, so he can get his paper in order. Point is TSA din't fall for his ORDO AB CHAO mumbo jumbo; He can run that guff at the border w Haiti. But, civilized USA, ain't falling for that cheap jesuit 3 card monte game. The Jesuits are the culprits of 50% of the mayhem in Haiti.

Only time will tell when this mayhem and confusion will be forced accross that thin imaginary border. My heart goes out to my fellow Quisqueyanos! Duarte: ...oh se hunde la isla.
Written by: lovingit, 10 Nov 2010 1:38 AM
From: United States, Delaware
Atabay,

I would say remove Africa from your 1MM visa para un Sueno plan and add Canada.
Written by: copyme, 10 Nov 2010 6:50 AM
From: Australia
So little has happened in terms of getting the place moving forward that even with the very close devastation risks that last weeks Hurricane Tomas touched Haiti with, the cholera epidemic may well be working a far worse scenario for Haiti as we speak. The fact that this deadly malady was brought into Haiti by foreign peace-keepers will not long remain a localized event IF the epidemic unleashes its full force upon the huge unsanitary camps that litter Haiti today. And then what? How will this approaching storm be met? That's my point.
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Written by: guillermone, 10 Nov 2010 1:50 PM
From: United States
"Avalanche of hungry Haitians across Dominican border imminent."

Well, who would have possibly known that such a thing would ever occur in our life time.

Well Duuuh...............Golly Sergeant Carter, now was that so hard to figure out?

Written by: Atabey, 10 Nov 2010 2:03 PM
From: United States, NYC
http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/haiti_operational_biosurv/

Cholera epidemic may have crossed into DR!!

"Current official stats are more than 9,971 cases and 643 fatalities. In some areas of Haiti, we have confirmation that in-patient statistics are under-reported by as much as 400%.

There is no question of under-reporting. If we assume the case counts are 1/4 the true community load, then we now have nearly 36k cases shedding pathogen into the environment. We believe the true statistic to be closer to more than 50k based on the degree of under-reporting. This is an uncontrolled, uncontained epidemic of cholera that has exceeded public health capacity to investigate and assess every site reported and every sample received.

Evidence now suggests the epidemic has crossed the border into the Dominican Republic, which was expected."
Written by: dreadlocks, 11 Nov 2010 11:32 AM
From: United States
where is this evidence which ¨suggests¨ that cholera has entered the DR? if there is evidence that it has entered the DR , then how is it concurrently a ¨suggestion¨?
Written by: HaitianDominicanPuertorican, 11 Nov 2010 9:15 PM
From: Puerto Rico, United States, HAITI, Puerto Rico
As long as the border is secured and UN troops arent in DR all will be good. UN should take full responsiblity for why Haiti has a SOUTH ASIAN strain of cholera. Terrible. smh.
Written by: cantave, 12 Nov 2010 4:45 AM
From: United States, !<82ndAbd>!Lt.Tigah>Fort Bragg>North Carolina, U.S>Platoon Leader>Tactical Hardcore.
cbelk99!!

Let me see how White you really are.
Go the the northwest pacific and apply at the KKK compound if see how fast your welfare recipient blood will be all over the floor.
Self hatred autophobic half breed.

Semper "warror 'Fidelis...................
Written by: poponlaburra, 12 Nov 2010 5:30 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Let's face it, Haitians or may I say the voodoo people are in this situation because they are STUPID who in their right mind will burn the scarse and needed food trucks already paid by their fellow men just because they wanted to retaliate against Dominicans for protecting their border to stop a deadly epidemic? Just the voodoo people could behave this way.

The Dominicans should presure the catholic church to disowned this priest who has done so much harm and evil to the Dominicans, Dominicans should stop going to church untill this priest gets excomulgated from church and exile from Dominican soil and sent to Haiti.
Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 12 Nov 2010 5:19 PM
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
poponlaburra:
The Dominicans should presure the catholic church to disowned this priest who has done so much harm and evil to the Dominicans, Dominicans should stop going to church untill this priest gets excomulgated from church and exile from Dominican soil and sent to Haiti.

Yes, do that I doubt it will make a difference since this is the reason for this JRS; Jesuit Relief services to exist, to import poor, hungry, diseased people into struggling economies, therefore perpetuating misery and mayhem. The Jesuit motto is Ordo ab Chao....Also 'by any means necessary", and "the end justifies the means". The U.S. soveriegnty is also being subverted by ill-eagles from Mejico y titirimundacci. Now you know what time it is! Pero, que va seguiran creyendo en sus LaSalles y Calazanes, y su Jesuitas infiltrados en todas las ramas de la sociedad..La agenda catolica romana apostolica global es fomentar el desorden. If you don't believe me, ask somebody. Watch out for Millenium Dev.Goals.
Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 17 Nov 2010 9:24 PM
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Another pandemic in the making brought to you by none other than that company that's been expelled from more than 150 countries for conspiring to usurp govenment authority and fomenting havoc - since its almost 500 years of existence: The Jesuit Order.

Alfonso Nicolas Pachon SJ: Regino mandame una turba pa' que se acabe de perjudicar to' la isla y podamos imponer ley canonica.
Written by: jupit, 22 Nov 2010 5:47 AM
From: Albania
There's billions of dollars still in the pipeline that hasnt been released and nearly three dozen projects planned for Haiti (water purification plants, textile factories, hotels, schools, hospitals, roads, advancement to the shipyards around the capital, etc.). It'll get better.
http://www.lyricsblog.org
Written by: poponlaburra, 22 Nov 2010 11:36 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Civil Rights and Peace Activist for Our Dominican People
Arsenio,
You're so right!
The Dominican people must stop this guy, only THE DOMINICAN PEOPLE COULD STOP HIM, forget about the church.
Written by: matador, 23 Nov 2010 10:22 AM
From: United States, www.brugal-ron.com/home.php
Haitian invade DR, Coming soon.
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