Dominican Republic calls canal construction 'provocation', shuts down border with Haiti

[Judi Lynn]

2. You're right. Close the border, stop airline traffic to the D.R. from Haiti, also. So dirty.

The D.R., at other times has harbored men who comprised U.S. supported death squads who used the country as a place to organize attacks on Haiti before they would come storming back and start slaughtering and terrorizing Haitians who protested U.S. supported brutes like Papa Doc, and Baby Doc Duvalier, and later Presidents. D.R. also allowed them to gather there, even outfitted in uniforms they got from the US, before they returned and lay waste to villages, leaving dead Haitians lying in the streets, as they marched toward the capital on their way to assassinate Pres. Aristide. This was during George W.'s time, as you remember, and his government people approached Aristide and told him they could save him from being murdered if he agreed to take a US plane to South Africa and stay there in exile. Some of the men had also terrorized Aristide during George H W Bush's term, and were known as members of the deadly Ton Ton Macoutes, feared by everyone, as they were the original henchmen used by the first Duvalier to keep the island living in terror of him and his nightmarish Ton Ton Macoutes.z

It's absolutely unconscionable that Washington backed both Duvaliers and their successors. Haiti is a hell for the abjectly helpless poor.

Insulting, injurious are exactly the right words. Doesn't look as if anyone will EVER come to help Haiti, as it suffers decade after decade while the world simply watches.