Santko Domingo.- Regarding the pressure that the Dominican Republic receives on the immigration issue from the United States and international organizations, the vice president of the National Progressive Force (FNP), Pelegrín Castillo, assured that what has been plotted for many years is prepare an international file against the country so that the nation assumes the crisis in Haiti.
He said that “the bet of the rival powers is not to help Haiti nor the Dominican Republic”, since his agenda and his plan is to demonstrate that the Caribbean region, which has always been considered the backyard of the United States, is not controlled by the Americans, because it is no longer the reliable power to being a decadent, which has led to an internal contradiction in the North American nation,” he said.
He explained that the Haitian diaspora, the Afro-American caucus and other groups have a racialist ideological vision of the issue of US relations with the Caribbean, and specifically with the two Caribbean nations, and that “that is why you see this discourse of criminal accusations that are being made against the Dominican Republic.”
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“They are criminal accusations, they are preparing an international file for us, and that is the danger at this juncture, the Americans cannot do what they would have done before: move their forces to make a direct intervention in Haiti,” he warned.
He said that they seek to create conditions of isolation for the Dominican Republic to stigmatize it as a criminal State capable of producing horrible acts “and accompany it with actions that give meaning to the story and a justification for a humanitarian intervention on the island.”
Pelegrín Castillo stated that the impact of the crisis that the neighboring country is experiencing in the regional, insular and continental spheres poses international problems with implications of national and international insecurity, for which he urged that what is appropriate is that the country unify to face said pressures. and seek a solution together with other nations.
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“The great challenge for us as a nation is to change the insular scheme that has been imposed on us with hard and soft resources in the last 30 years…using the weapon of trade, NGOs, political pressure, blackmail and international accusations”, said.
He stated that in one way or another, the country’s ruling class, whether due to inaction, interest, omission, fear, hesitation or unconsciousness, has been accepting the idea that the Dominican Republic can handle this crisis as a buffer zone, while international powers “help” the country so that we “help” Haiti.
During his participation in the Reseñas program, hosted by journalists Rafael Núñez and Adelaida Martínez R. on Entelevisión, every Saturday at 9:00 p.m., he said that this purpose generates the opposite, sowing suspicion in Haitians against the Dominicans.
He highlighted that 20% to 25% of the acts of violence that occur in the country involve a Haitian as a victim or perpetrator, in situations in which sometimes they are lawsuits between themselves, which disturbs public order and generates insecurity. in Dominican communities.
When reasoning on the subject beyond the country, Pelegrín Castillo commented that it is necessary to see how the Caribbean and the entire continent have become the scene of these struggles between the powers because there are two blocs of countries that are fighting for hegemony, with China on the one hand; Russia for another; Iran now has a large presence in Venezuela, nations where the Dominican Republic has allies.
Regarding the resolution issued by four United States senators urging the United States Department of State to continue collaborating with the Dominican Republic so that it continues to manage the humanitarian crisis generated by migration, he said that obviously this is the scheme that is not appropriate, because in 30 years It has proven that it does not work and that the one who is harming is the Dominican in need.
“These four senators are closer to the Dominican Republic, but at that point, I understand that they are raising an issue that must be changed,” he specified, urging that they should go towards a rescue and reconstruction effort in Haiti, raise it as a priority and seriously believe that it is possible, since there is a discouraging and disqualifying approach to Haiti as a nation and that is why they are looking for a solution in the country.
The vice president of the FNP suggested that the approach to the Haitian crisis must be based on an international conference that should move the Dominican Republic, for the well-being of both nations.
“We must convene a conference, but that can only be done by a unified country, with no fissures, proving that it is a sovereign nation with international allies,” Castillo pointed out, adding that the US must have a presence there. ., France, Canada, the European Union, the African Union, Latin America and Brazil.
Castillo said that the migration issue is central to national politics, because it is of interest to the very existence of the nation, since there is an insular, international and continental situation that forces the country to produce effective definitions, since he considers that if it is not ago, Haiti with its crisis is going to drag the Dominican Republic into a scenario of increasing instability and therefore the nation would lose the conquests already won.
“We have been asking the president, as the country’s leader, that he has the obligation to carry out an exercise to unify the country, so that there are State policies on this issue. Obviously, that is everyone’s responsibility,” Castillo specified, noting that the opposition also has to join in, while acknowledging the support that it has given to the government’s position.
He reiterated that if there is an opportunity to get out of the trap, it has to be now in an effort to unify the country and in a rethinking because all of this is based on a fact: Haiti is a failed state, but worst of all is that it has been evicted by international organizations and powers that start from the idea that what you have to look for is the neighboring country.
Regarding what the population thinks regarding the government’s position in the face of pressure from the United States and international organizations on the immigration issue, and especially with regard to Haitian illegals, he stressed that certainly “the people support it, but the majority still of the population does not fully understand that it is not Migration, but that it is a problem of occupation”.
Explaining the migratory phenomenon, he said that a country like the Dominican Republic could manage with some 500,000 Haitian citizens, but the reality is that the current figure is over 2.5 million and that goes beyond the situation.
He highlighted that the Interior and Police carried out an uprising with the village mayors and that it revealed that there are some 476 Haitian settlements, warning that, for example, Los Haitises is one of the most fragile and important towns in the country, and that throughout the buffer zone and the communities are with a huge presence of citizens of the neighboring country.
