Haiti’s envoy to the Dominican Republic, Smith Agustín, said he had not been questioned by the interior ministers of the country, when asked about President Luis Abinader’s position, that vacancies should not be confiscated from Covid-19 for immigrants.
It is embarrassing, however, that Abinader has not been rebuffed and has not been evacuated to “no Haitian”. “It is not possible to comment on the internal affairs of the country, it is a decision of the President, of the Governor, but the President will say that no Haitian can not approve of the opportunity to be evacuated in the Dominican Republic”, verklaar a Listín Diario el diplomático.
Regarding the allegations of the Dominican mandate of the failure of his compatriots to vacate to identify identity documents, Smith Agustín said that “not all Haitians residing in the Dominican Republic have access to documentation”.
“Not all Haitians in the country have ten documents, but some do not have ten documents will not be evacuated, so no one will say that they will not have access to the evacuation,” said the farmer.
Ante the insistence of this reporter, Agustín fue cauto y dijo: “we hope that will happen, but we will be optimistic”.
It is noted that the metropolitan archbishop of Santo Domingo, Monsignor Francisco Ozoria, reiterated the position planted by President Luis Abinader, which only required vacancies for the Dominicans, for which only ten were applied to the immigrant and he said lo que es, no por si es extranjero, ni para medicina, ni para vacuna ”.
The governor has the control
Regarding the political conflict in Haiti and the pressures that President Jovenel Moïse received from the opposition in order to give it power, alleging that he had lost his mandate, the ambassador said that a group of opponents could confuse him as much as he did in his country. el particular.
Recorded that the Constitution of his country is clear as of the time of a president in the governor who is five years old, “he began in 2017, having ended in 2022 and is creating confusion, including, the intentions of golfer of Estado ”.
Without embarrassment, Agustín says that the authorities of his country have control over the situation in Puerto Príncipe and “little by little the governor is taking more control of the country”.
Awareness raising
The diplomat was interviewed on the date of a meeting with his compatriots in communities of the provinces that conform to the Enriquillo Region: Pedernales, Barahona, Bahoruco and Independencia.
The meeting was held at the Consulate of Haiti, located at Calle Duvergé, next to the seat of the Infantry Quintet of the Republic of the Republic, and was accompanied by Therese Longchamp, Minister of this Diplomatic Legacy. Agustín says that the proposal of the meeting is to raise awareness about the reform process in the Constitution that encourages the governing body of President Jovenel Moïse.