What Marco Rubio, whose confirmation as Secretary of State in the new Donald Trump administration has just said in a hearing in the US Senate, must have generated hope that our country will receive from the Government that will take the reins of the United States, starting this January 20, the best response it has received so far to its already old demands for the international community to contribute to generating the conditions to stabilize Haiti and, consequently, overcome the insecurity problems that unsettle its society, with consequences for the Dominican Republic, which is forced to deal with an overflowing and chaotic migratory flow.
Rubio acknowledged that “people don’t talk enough about the Dominican Republic,” which “faces a real challenge because of Haiti, because of the instability of the neighboring country.”
He also considered that our country deserves more attention, highlighting that “the Dominican Republic is among the countries that are doing well, along with Argentina and Ecuador.”
And to support his assessment, he explained that the Dominican Republic was one of the countries that emerged the fastest from Covid 19 and recovered its economy, not just tourism, thanks to its strategy in the face of the challenge posed by confinement due to the pandemic.
If we season Marco Rubio’s words with the statement that “Dominicans are great,” made by Donald Trump in a meeting at his official residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in which Dominican businessman Frank participated Elías Jorge, good omens rise to a level that leads to optimism.
Both Rubio’s statements and what Trump said confirm the expectation that President Luis Abinader has regarding the bilateral relationship during the new government in the United States, who on Monday, December 2, had said that he hopes to maintain relations with the president-elect of the United States Donald the same relationship that they garnered in the last months of the Republican’s first government in 2020, which he described as “very good.”
A better bilateral relationship can have repercussions in all areas, with emphasis on international cooperation to overcome the Haitian crisis.
It is true that, after many claims have fallen into emptiness, some steps have been taken in that direction, such as the intervention of the multinational military force, led by Kenya, but it has not been able to contain the gangs and Haiti has not achieved its economic stability. political, social and electoral, so much more needs to be done to create the conditions in the neighboring country that make it livable.
Only in this way will we ensure that Haiti’s problems cease to be the main threat to the economic, social and even political sustainability of the Dominican Republic, preventing migration chaos from overwhelming the country by reducing the flow of immigrants to the levels that dictates normality.
