“Exports to Haiti continue so far and we do not see a significant impact on the reduction of trade,” said the president of the Dominican Association of Exporters (Adoexpo), Elízabeth Mena, regarding the crisis in the neighboring country. and that has motivated an editorial in The Washington Post.
There are alternate sea routes, said Elízabeth Mena, president of Adoexpo, because land transportation presents challenges due to the criminal gangs that plague Haitian territory.
Remember that the Government has recommended not to travel to Haiti.
For Mena, the current situation is very delicate and although trade is important, “our citizens are even more so.”
Understands that the international community must come to the aid of Haiti as proposed by the Dominican Government
Like Adoexpo, the business leader, Circe Almánzar, executive vice president of the Association of Industries (AIRD), affirmed this Monday that the situation in Haiti does not reflect a significant commercial impact, although she assures that there are difficulties in sending merchandise to the neighboring country. .
Business sector
"We hope that this will not get worse."said Circe Almánzar, explaining that the situation in the neighboring country is extremely delicate, so today more than ever we must protect our borders.
"We do not see that the solution to the situation in Haiti can be assumed by the Dominican Republic and therefore we support the Government’s position of requesting international aid and support."he stressed.
The Haitian case, which prompted an editorial in Listín and a publication in the Washington Post, also caught the attention of the business leadership of the National Council of Private Enterprise (Conep). The executive vice president of the business association, César Dargam, affirmed that the prolonged deterioration over time of the institutional framework in Haiti is of great concern not only for the business sector, but for all of society.
Its political, economic and social consequences affect the Haitian people themselves, and without a doubt threaten the stability that should prevail in our bilateral relations.
“There must be a Haitian solution to its own crisis, but obviously with the responsible accompaniment of the international community,” said Dargam.
pronouncements
As a result of the worsening of the Haitian crisis, after the assassination just a year ago, on July 7, 2021, of its president Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian people live “day to day” with one crisis after another, aggravated in political terms. , in its economy and social stability with murders, robberies, assaults, kidnappings, rapes and all kinds of violence provoked by criminal gangs.
The Dominican president has asked the international community for a look of assistance to Haiti, a nation considered the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and which every day becomes a greater social and economic pressure for the Dominican Republic where at least 40% of its parturients They come without papers in search of health care at Dominican hospitals. This is not counting the number of Haitian nationals who serve themselves food and school education in the Dominican fields.
This Monday, the prestigious American newspaper The Washington Post referred to the Haitian crisis as a problem that cannot be ignored by the international community.
The newspaper published that “As Haiti sinks deeper into pandemonium, with much of the capital seized by gunfire and gang warfare, it has received recent deliveries from the United States of two basic products that can only contribute to its collapse: weapons and deportees. Those exports, one smuggled, the other open, are the latest symptom of the world’s callous indifference and moral shortsightedness toward the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.”
Similarly, in its editorial “El desmadre de Haiti”, Listín Diario published, among other details, that “the misery of Haiti and its prolongation over time have been possible because, in the absence of a responsible national leadership that imposes order and respect, the international community has crossed its arms.
Since July 2021, the editorial continues, when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his bed, Haitians have lived in an unprecedented escalation of crimes.
The armed gangs of looters and murderers first brought the Haitian Police to their knees, who are unable to confront them, and now they fight each other to have control of everything that moves in the country.
If the world remains indifferent to the power of the gangs that are rampaging through Haiti with rivers of blood, let no one be surprised when the phenomenon spreads to all neighboring nations, he points out.
Likewise, he warns that the greatest danger hangs over our country, which has historically borne the greatest burden of the Haitian tragedy and “the friends of Haiti” do not even recognize it.
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