SANTIAGO.- A Haitian historian and university professor warns Dominicans to start getting used to living “in communion” with the Haitians, because, in his view, "like it or not," the island’s fusion “is just around the corner.”

Reinseinthe Paul Joseph, a Port-au-Prince University professor who moved to Canada, said he supports Haiti presidential candidate Michel Martelly, who in his view has a clear position and without "taboos," that the only solution to the massive immigration of Haitians to Dominican territory, is fusing both countries as a single nation. "The time has come for Haitians to have free access to the Dominican Republic, because the so-called frontier which supposedly divides us is a myth."

Joseph said Dominican president Leonel Fernandez has met with the candidate Mirlande Manigat but discards he can doing the same with Martelly, "because he (Fernandez) knows that when we win, his pride and the Dominicans’ rancid racism against Haitians will be finished."

Interviewed by Inter News Service (INS) the Haitian historian noted however that although he supports the fusion of Haiti and Dominican Republic, his country’s compatriots and politicians must start looking for alternatives, because his country’s only salvation is to press the international community to persuade the Dominican part to definitively open the border so the Haitians "who die of hunger" enter and leave Dominican Republic without the traumas they currently face.