The Dominican Republic has closed its border with Haiti following tensions over Haiti building a canal from a shared river.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Dajabon in the Dominican Republic.
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Keep digging 🇭🇹 💯
@RONALD CRUZ they are not stupids if they are pay good they will work.
Also we’ll have to mechanized the farms!
@La bible, le bonheur et la vielast time I checked Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and DR has one of the fastest growing economies 😂, y’all need us
@RONALD CRUZ True, which is why I said we need each other for specific things. Dominicans work but they won’t do it for as cheap as Haitians anymore (a lot of well off or educated Haitians in DR won’t either). But true everything has a cause and effect I’m well aware. Hopefully we don’t let those extremest groups or media from both sides divide us. Do your own research ppl! but this did catch the Dominican people off guard just forcing it like that and sending armed people near the canals it does provoke things Honestly and sends the wrong message. Love and peace my people let’s work this out the right way 🫡🇩🇴🇭🇹
@monso 78puss it’s an island it water everywhere ask yo momma
The Dominican Republic will never want to see Haiti succeded.. They will never want to see haiti have a good agriculture. Dominicans already build 11 canal on the international river ..haiti is about ti build only 1 for its people…now the Dominican elite want to massacre the haitian….all that i know is that haiti will forever be free and forever be the 1st black republic that change the world and set the led for others to follow….long live Mali long live bukina faso long live niger free Palestine… Long live a free world….tired of manupilation and exploitation.
Haiti is well known for making coal out of their trees. They have destroyed their forest and dried up their rivers. And now they want to interrupt a shared river that is born in DR. They must follow rules. Not like animals like they have always displayed themselves
Im not surprised your report is very biased as we all know that you aré being paid by non Profit organizations that are following and are part of a global agenda to make the DR look like we are the evil doer in this story because their only interest is to steal Haiti’s natural resources .
Very sad situation for the Haitians, but at the same time this is a great opportunity to start “The New Haiti” from zero. They need to depend on themselves for survival and not in the Dominican Republic. Haiti should do the same thing the Dominicans are doing.
@tygerflex77 Oh, okay, I understand!
@tygerflex77 That’s not what I said, but sure. 👍
@YESHUA DR didn’t respect the agreement either son
@Anthon Yes they did if not Haiti would have responded when they still had authority. Let me remind you of the 55km only 2km pass through haiti. President just spoke about it in the United Nations assembly if it wasn’t respected someone would have said something but no one did not even Joe Biden instead biden said armed forces are needed in Haiti to keep the peace. The source being in DR if they didn’t respect the treaty the water wouldn’t even reach those 2km in Haiti.
@YESHUAsee your problem? Your president says some fallacy and you take it for truth! Why don’t you do your own research! He just lied because he knows people like you will be stupid enough to accept that. SMH…
🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴😍😍😍😍
viva dominican republic🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Haiti is country full of Criminals, most part of that country Haiti is controlled By Criminal.
Despite being independent for over 200 year, Black people in Haiti managed to create one of the
worst country in the world to live in the 21st century.
Dominican Republic must create a Big Wall on its border with electric fences and also must built sniper towers, so that Barbarians from the other side of the border do not seek into Dominican Republic and then ruin Dominican Republic just like they ruin their own country Haiti.
There should be no room for war we dominicans don’t have Imperial syndrome like some Haitians who take there anger and caos violence claimig rights they don’t have in haiti.100 OF DOMINICANS HAVE BEING KILLED BY HATIANS NO IN HAITI BUT DR .IN CAPITAL LETTERS WE HAD ENOUGH .
Let them close the borders and see whose economy is gonna suffer the most
The 🇩🇴 is the greatest economy in the caribbean and the 9th of América, Haití is the last, like 30th of América
@Leocadio Guzman Dominguez don’t worry, Haiti will raised.
@Leocadio Guzman Dominguez you are dreaming.
Not wise, many people suffering on both sides
@Annou palé 2 Santé you don’t have to but you sure mentioned them eggs
🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 I’m all for helping Haiti out but killing the environment after they have destroy their own is uncalled for , i know there will be a resolution to this
We are not coming for the environment, we are coming for the dominicans. Your country is probably behind the toxic planes spraying Haitian farmlands.
De acuerdo
PA QUE SEPA
The Dominicas are some of the EVILEST RACIST MFers who think they’re are white but some day in the near future I pray that they will have to depend on the Haitian people 💯
They have preyed on their country, they are a violent race, they burn and slaughter their own people, now they do not have much water and they want to build a dam to divert the water from the river that originates in Loma de Cabrera Dom Rep. This is an attack on national security supported by theircriminals gangs.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
🇭🇹🤝🇩🇴
Peace is what I prefer.
We stand with Haiti 🇭🇹 🇺🇸✊🏿✊🏿
@Blas Jimenezwhat does the government has to do with the farmers
If it’s true that DR has multiple canals and they share the river, what’s wrong with Haiti building one? I’m with Haiti on this one.
@Blas Jimenezthe issue is the right of Haiti to build a canal.
🇱🇷🇻🇪🇵🇷 stand for DR
Es el pueblo dominicano quien tiene que tomar la situación en sus manos y expulsar a los intrusos invasores haitianos que están destruyendo la patria
Dominican Republic is absolutely right Haiti cannot violate the international treaty of 1929 and divert the waters of a river that belongs to the Dominican Republic just because it enters its territory by 500 meters. Whoever agrees that the Dominican Republic allows this is nothing more than an ignorant idiot and before giving their opinion they should put themselves in the DR’s place and think about whether they would allow more than 30 kilometers of their country to be left without water.
1-This news report is missing context; that part of the river is borderland. It is not on the Haitian side. It serves as a natural border between the two countries. The Riverhead starts in Dominican territory. Then, it zigzags between both countries to later end in DR. It’s riverhead and river-mouth are in Dominican territory. Parts of the river are shared between the two states and other parts are in sole Dominican or Haitian territory. The canal is being built on the shared border part of the river. The 1929 peace treaty between the countries prohibit diverting the waters of the Massacre River and forces both parties to sit at the table in any matter related to the border. The Haitians are violating the peace accord of 1929 and International law principles. There is a bilateral commission that deals with these international issues between the two countries. They had a bilateral-meeting over a year ago. The DR requested the works to stop and asked the Haitians to find alternative solutions. The Haitians never stopped the project until the death of their president. Later, they restarted construction. The DR noticed that the Haitian commission was not acting in good faith(lied) when they got a hold of the blueprints. The specifications and design do not meet the characteristics of an irrigation canal. An irrigation canal channels water from the source by gravity. What the Haitians are building is a transfer canal. The “canal” they are building is 2.5 meters higher than the riverbank which means they will have to build a dike and pumping stations to bring the water from lower ground to higher ground. This is an environmental and economic catastrophe. The Haitians have almost dried up the riverbed by extracting sand and gravel. There is barely any water in the river. In the Haitian side it is almost dried. The specs show that the velocity at which water will flow through this canal is higher than the river’s. That means the canal’s operation can dry the river. Over 2000 acres of farming land on the Dominican side are at risk of flooding and 1500 on the Haitian side. Not to mention, the effects on habitats and ecosystems in lower grounds specifically on the Saladillo Wildlife Reserve (which receives water from the Massacre River)and it’s marshes and wetlands on the Dominican side. The DR is a contracting party to the Ramsar convention, which sole purpose is to protect wetlands. Saladillo Lake is home to manatees, migrating birds, plants, etc….it used to be 30 km2 mass of freshwater. Now, it’s only 5.7 km2.
2- This canal is not being built by farmers. It’s being built by ex legislators and businessmen. They are using the farmers as a front.
Historically, this is how some violent conflicts have begun.
Haiti invaded the Dominican Republic for 22 years and then they made 7 more attempts and the Dominican Republic in the Trujillo era gave up a part of its territory beyond the place where today there are differences over the canal, the river originates and ends in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 It has 55 km where only 500 meters cross the border with Haiti and in total the curvature is 6km. By the 1929 treaty, all work in that specific area that is shared must be agreed upon and used with technical criteria according to the treaty in equal parts. What the canal does is divert the river towards Haiti and affects the course it follows downstream in the Dominican Republic, affecting agriculture and wetlands in a Dominican national park. The DR does not oppose the shared use of that strip in equal parts and with a technical use of measured cubic meters, the issue is that downstream it would destroy the ecosystem (as Haiti has done), if the intention of the Dominican Republic was bad it would have dammed the river in the Dominican part where it originates, judge which is the hostile part ?
@VwaPatriyòt La When did Haiti fight against Spain? In what history book? show me.
@Manfred Then I don’t have to show you. You just need to read. You think Spain expelled themselves? It’s free information and education. I don’t know why this is so difficult. The same way Haiti supposedly invaded a contry(DR) which did not exist yet …? OMG chronology people chronology!!!! Haiti is not your enemy (Dominicans) you were tricked that’s all. Years of false Hatred and indoctrination. You know the U.S invaded you in 1916 yet you sell your daughters to their old men for pleasure without shame. Still your hatred is Haiti. Really do some digging in non neo-colonist history.
@VwaPatriyòt La España se fue sola, ustedes temian que los europeos invadieran desde la parte este y cuando españa salio, dejo sin ejercito a los dominicanos y ahi ustedes atacaron. TU HISTORIA ES FALSA.
@Manfred Then get educated beside the propaganda you’re learning from Trujillo’s agenda. You still can’t explain the chronology. Speak English. In case you forgot, I’m not Dominican.
@VwaPatriyòt La PROPAGANDA SAY HAHAHAHAHA. When did Haiti fight against Spain? In what history book? show me.
Can you believe that they take everything those poor peoples spend their life time working without normal labor DR 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾not fair one day Haiti 🇭🇹 you will need Haitian again to help trust me we will take care of you again again and again that’s why you blocked Haiti every where
Haiti people so proud 😂
Talking about “I’m not African”, “I m not black, I’m Haitian”. Indeed you guys are Haitian and can never be African! Is Haiti even a country? Do you guys even have mineral resources tho? Poor rest of the poor nations in the world. Abeg stay in your mouse country! Haiti is not even a continent , I can tell you that half of any African country can buy Haiti like 60 times and over. Tsww
The 1929 treaty gives both countries the right to use the water for irrigation but nothing else. This is the reason haiti didn’t complain any of the 11 times they diverted the water. What Abinader is doing is plainly Sissi moves. Too emotional a leader to be taken seriously. We will dig 10 more canals to match them since we have equal rights to the waters.
@D.I.Y GARO Hello the treaty of 1929 only apply to the part of the river that is part of the border not the whole river, river is 55 km long. 5.5 km border. 48 km in DR. River born in DR, river died in DR. Got it? If we want to make 100 canals we can!
Well, the DR has no other choice but to bomb the sh### out of your country, ungrateful people
LET ME KNOW PLEASE
People like you are the real problem of your own People by lying to Haitian and making them to believe what’s not true. You’re a enemy of your own country sir.
@Santiago Pereyra on that river, ( specifically) of course. because we’re talking about that river.
I’m Jamaican but I’m with DR
I’m Trinidadian and support Haiti 🇭🇹. I definitely don’t support Jamaica
You should quit smoking cause your brain is malfunctioning
From reading the above comments it seems that the land of Calypso supports the land of Kompa. While the land of Reggae supports the land of Merengue. One thing is for sure, the best music comes from the Caribbean.
thank you i know hatians go there TO CAUSE PROBLEMS TOO
Thanks, we are the caribbean, Jamaica Best rithin and 🇩🇴 greatest economy and most importants countries in the caribbean 💪💪
Frères haïtiens, je suis dominicain et ce qui arrive avec les gouvernements des deux pays qui ne peuvent pas dialoguer et parvenir à un accord me fait beaucoup de mal. Dites au peuple haïtien de se repentir de ses péchés et de revenir à Dieu, de se détourner de la sorcellerie et des autres dieux et d’adorer le vrai Dieu et vous verrez comment le pays d’Haïti prospère plus que la RD et bien d’autres pays où le lait et le miel couleront à flots. . et tout sera en abondance
the river exist because we dont cutoff the trees my FREND as HAITI DOES ALL THE TIME
Frère Dominican je suis Haitien Dites a vos compatriotes d’arrêter d’offrir aux étrangers vos femmes vos soeurs et vos filles contre de l’argent. 95% des femmes se prostituent. C’est de l’immortalité. repentez-vous cessez d’adorer Dieu dans l’hypocrisie. La prostitution est un péché et c’est la base de votre économie florissante Le tourisme sexuel.
@Jamal Hassanis our business since we have a pacifist invasion from haiti.
You need God yourself. God tells you to love but you keep on killing Haitians legal or illegal. The base of any religion is love. It is not the killing of your neighbors.
😂😂 epav!
Haiti needs to stop before it gets worst for their economy
Agent BSAP yo bezwen al netwaye Lartibonite
Why African American tourists are dying while vacationing in DR?
@livinginamerica yeah please don’t ever come here again. And maybe 82 percent of the employees can go back to their country cause their Haitian
Negative publicity. Nice try😂
@John Smith liar😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@livinginamerica😂😂😂 you have never been to one so we dont care
@Ruben DiazYeah I have, multiple times but not anymore. F you dum azz dominicans, while I was ignorant to their racist attitude. You don’t have to care; because you’re too stupid to realize… on my dummest day you’ll never be smarter than me. Don’t underestimate the power of voo doo. Do you need a reference?
WHAT KIND OF NEWS IS THAT?
THE DR GOVRT. IS DEAD WRONG, THEY BREAKING THE TTEATY THEY HAVE TO SHARE THE RIVER WITH HAITI. THEY BUILT 11 PROJECTS THIS IS OUR FIRST. WE DON’T CARE ABOUT ROTTEN FOOD.
Article 10 of the
“DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI
Treaty of Peace, Friendship and
Arbitration. Signed at Santo Domingo, February 20, 1929.
“Article IO.
Because rivers and other watercourses
are born in the territory of a State and run
through the territory of the other or serve as limits
between the two States, both High Parties
Contracting Parties undertake not to do or
consent to any work capable of changing
the current of those or altering the product
of their sources.
This provision cannot be interpreted in
the sense of depriving neither of the two States of the right to use, in a manner
fair and equitable, within the limits of their
respective territories, said rivers and others
water courses for irrigation.””” signed by Felipe Horacio Vásquez and Eustache Antoine François Joseph Louis Borno.
The river is near dry now with the canal it would essentially divert it’s entire course and leave the DR side without water. As much yes, one sided,, no. The hydrological study they supplied to DR clearly indicated the flow the canal would create and due to the low levels of water it is 💯 of the flow now. That’s the problem. Is not that they can’t take water is how they are taking it and what it would mean for the entire region. DR is also know for having dear dry rivers flooding after storms. creating a canal this way could also be super dangerous and potentially cause floods.
this canal has a 6 cubic meter per second capacity doubling the river capacity which is basically deviating the river.
The river starts in the DR, passes a few km through the border and comes back to DR. The river doesn’t go along the whole border. And we have never changed the course of the river, unlike this one.
most farmer use pumps work by using the downward flow of river to build pressure within a collection chamber, them collect that water in tank on the highest part of the farm.
Malditos haitianos tan nerviosos y malos agradecidos. Nos tienen coño en zozobra
Good. They can’t keep their gang problem under control.
And their neighbors don’t want any part of it.
gangs and corruptors will take that water for bussiness, and these worked will go home with nothing, i see the future. its the same every single opportunity.
I’m 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 i want all Haitian’s do voodoo on them
L’union fait la force✊🏾, I proud of haitian people, if we work together we can change haiti.
@Bienvenido Batista the canal will good for both countries
@Bienvenido Batista u right, Haiti has a lot of guns factories. Haiti assassinated President Jonel. Stop your nonsenses.
Yeah y’all should unite and get together to fight your own government that keeps you guys in this situation. You guys are getting together to build a Canal that is being pushed by private entities . A canal that violates a treaty where it says neither country can modify the River in such way. A Canal that will be snatched by the same private companies who’s pushing this idea to have the desperate Haitian people build it . If it gets built they will take the Canal privatize it and the Haitian people will stay the same or worse since the relationship with DR won’t be the same
@Cheerio The Ocelothow? Can you explain?
@Bienvenido Batista Treat this treat that, but where is thte treat of 1920 that a lot of people are talking about? Show it to Force Haitian to spot one for all. All we see is RD showing off near the border with their Army. And the Haitian are still building their River. If you’re right like you said SHOW US PROOF of Haiti violating that Treat.
Lovely to see how everyone is demonizing DR against victim Haiti, as usual, walking npcs
what did you expect? this is the Black playbook, that being play the victim and pin blame on the lighter hued people.
Dominican te kraye rivyè ou BONDYE
create a new country by mixing up these two countries. I suggest the name as ‘The Republic of Dominica and Haiti’. Problem will be solved gradually.
The Haitians tried back in the 1800s but the Dominicans didn’t want that.
Supposedly, they were invaded because the invader did not like the idea of the Dominicans joining Gran Colombia. Gran Colombia back then was made up of what is today Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador. There were groups of people in the other two Spanish held caribbean islands which also wanted there islands to join grand Colombia.
@ab9840 Haiti wanted to join Grand Columbia, but they just didn’t want the spainards to come back. That’s why you’ll see that at one point in time, the haitian flag matched the Grand Columbia flag.
The D.R doesn’t want the destruction that Haiti causes! 🙄
Tu madre.l.
Nothing stays the same forever. US Afo-Haitians will have our chance to return all the disrespect we’ve received from these European wannabes, Dumb in a cans.
Dominican Republic should sent a few cruise missiles to that canal and Haitians will think twice about building another one. lol Haiti has no government but criminal gangs? lol
Abinader has not done much for the DR and he is using Haiti for his own political gain. His people are falling for his lies and deception. It’s all about the coming up election Dominican people, open your eyes. He doesn’t care about you all. It’s all about him. The DR is losing about $3 million dollars every day those borders are close. Abinader consented for the construction of Haiti’s canal in 2021 with President Moise Jovenel before he was murdered. He knows Haiti is within its rights to build this canal. Please leave us Haitians out of this and let us build our canal in peace so we can take care of our own people and country. The DR already has 11 canals from the river. For the first time Haiti is doing the same thing on its territory and you are all having tantrums. How fair is this? Please leave us alone and let us take care our business.
Ever since the french were kick out of Haiti on 1804 you country was the wealthiest country in the word now its the poorest. Its no bodys fault but yours.Ask your self what happened and who DID IT.
First off Haiti is in debt from paying france and still paying france for it’s independence. No other country is payed a country for its independence. Is domninican republic paying Spain? Also where are the gangs getting bullets and guns from? Haiti makes no guns ask yourself that Question. Greedy countries love to live off of the poor. It’s being done on purpose. Clinton also stole money. All the money that was given to Haiti was stolen.
After a few years of being independent, Haiti split up into two nations. The State of Haiti in the North which later became the Kingdom of Haiti. The Southern part became the Republic of Haiti. The Kingdom was ruled by a former General turned King who built a great citadel on top of a mountain which is a tourist attraction today. He also built himself a elegant palace which is today in ruins. He spent money like it was falling from the sky. He got the money exporting sugar from the former sugar plantations which he kept running.
The southern Republic of Haiti unlike the northern Kingdom of Haiti started land reform and divided up the sugar plantations. Each person got a small piece of land. The problem was that the new landowners just grew enough food to feed themselves thus not much for export. No export means no money coming into the nation. This helps to partially explain Haiti current situation. Going back, the northern Kingdom of Haiti fell after the King was no longer around and the southern Republic of Haiti then annexed them.
Dominican republic people are pure dunce brainless jackass they divert the river with canal and don’t want poor Haiti to do it they come with their guns brainless keep digging Haiti
Unfortunately, Haiti is a lost cause. The leaders have fled, the people are so ignorant, they are of no use for employment. So sad
What leaders? ..a few puppets …that’s all they always had
And they are consumed by hatred for every other nation. 🙄
Haitian people are not ignorant. They are victims of a corrupt government. But I would never call someone ignorant because they’re a victim.
Keep going my Haitian people,. Do not bowed to any punk
A treaty was made why are you guys breaking it ?
DOMINICAN POLICE KILLED A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN THE PROCESS
THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 5 RIVERS THAT BORDERS THESE 2 COUNTRIES
Proud, but the wrong initiative that will bring more trouble. A scare resource can’t just be ‘taken’ for commercial use without expecting push back. This area of drought and flood needs a reservoir or storage lake shared and built between the two countries. Just taking and diverting for farming, beer, or what ever won’t end well they way they are going about it. True, the government is useless support, but this is not the way.
Haiti destroyed their own rivers and forest that’s why their rivers and lake does not exist anymore because the ruined their own country, rio massacre or dajabon is till with water and alive because is born in Dominican Republic site and we preserve the nature, the forest. If we let them manage massacre’s river they will destroy it too.
There’s lots of rivers in Haiti
Haití 🇭🇹 is its own enemies not the Dominicans
You know nothing
Thank you sir.
About time Dominican Republic shows some law and order at the border.
sure, so many crooked Dominican border patrol agents letting Haitians cross with bribes. Dominicans are not all good.
If they share the water what is the problem? It’s the same old thing they just want servants to feed the needs of tourism and cheap labor!! I’ll never go back to DR again until they resolve this issue.
Well President Jovenel Moises requested this project and he was assassinated .. now I see with all this protest and uproar .. that bourgeoise and some other players had their hand in his assassination.
Haiti nerver had DR as a friend and it’s impossible talking about friendship between two countries sharing the same land.
In Haiti we know about relationships or business between two countries something that was profitable for DR 💯
The way we buy stuff from DR there is nothing to compare with what they call business between two countries
Haiti can not transport stuff there even send it to America. So sad
DR is not the reason why Haiti is suffering. You have so many rich minerals in that land that you are giving to the US and France for cheap. Haitians ruined their own soil with deforestation. It might be 2 countries, but it’s the same land and same people. Just different language. We just took better care of ours.
They keep on killing Haitians whether they are legal or illegal. Being black or Haitian is a sin for DR.
Dominicans have been more of a friend and support to Haiti than Haitians have ever been to themselves.What are you talking about?..If Haitians helped each other 10% of how much Dominicans help and have helped Haitians, Haiti would be a second Dubai. Specially with the billions and billions sent to Haiti enough to rebuild Haiti 5 times and who stole that money ? Dominicans? Who cut down all the trees causing lack of Water? Dominicans? .
Who Killed your president, Dominicans?
Who created the gangs that are tearing down Haiti, Dominicans? .
Which country in the world has 35% of their maternity beds in their hospitals occupied by Haitians (or let alone by foreign immigrants) and attending them for free? Oh yeah that’s right , that is Dominicans. Who is the one making a modification to a River where both countries agreed that neither country can modify in a way that it changes the course of the River? Dominicans? …
I could go on and on but I’ll leave it here.
Good Job Dominican Republic! Enough is enough! Haiti is a dam failed state and they are destroying all the natural resources left on the island! Dominican Republic shows law and order while Haiti total caos!
The main problem started when colonialists divided the island…
You big dummy the haïtien fight for the whole island it didn’t had espagnol yet 😂 read your history first black country after slavery 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 if it wasn’t for haïtien independence it wouldn’t have Dominican Republic
When we fought the French where you guys were again???😂 we
Haïtien can and will be united
Every darkness have a piece of light
Colonialists did not divide the island it was all one island until the the pirates and the French invaded the western side
@nixongaming911 Ur comment has no merit, no way u’r over 12 years old
Malditos gringos la isla era solo de España hasta que descuidó una parte de la isla y Francia aprovechó eso.
@SG-joker When did Haiti fight against Spain? In what history book? show me.
They have destroyed their country. Time to keep them on check. Deportations are needed
Water is needed Blow up Haiti and create a Lake for H2O. HAHA. Kidding.
Blow yourself up and the country you live in and create a lake for H20. HAHA.Kidding.
Let’s go Haiti, let’s go.
I’ll flew from where i am to come help them digging deeper
Yes let go digging deeper so canal can reach the river level. Oh wait canal is 2.5 meter over the river level damnit!. Hey Mr. George how much you are paying the new guy? 20 dollars not good!😂
@FLYGA Dig your own graves
– While eating a Lobster in Miami😂
It’s time for Haiti 🇭🇹 to find new partners.
Let’s see Bahamas? Maybe not they put haitians in cages like monkeys oh wait a second they are blacks😱.
Jamaica? Oh nooo they hates haitians.
Cuba they try one time and realized they make a huge mistake.
Try America Trump is coming and you know what Trump think about shitholes.
Chile? No no..
Peru Ay noooo.
The question is why? You never adapt to the country you are!
thats all we want
Good luck
Nobody wants to deal with lawless country controlled by gangs
what does Haiti have to offer besides outstretched hands begging? Haiti has no natural resources to trade on the open market. Haiti has no official government. The country is ran by gangs. Who would want to partner with Haiti? You are delusional. Haiti is a failed state. The UN should disband that section of the Island and deport Haitians to African countries willing to receive them.
Go back home and don’t come back, we want all of them out of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
DR let me tell you like a real ZOE nations!
You can start it make sure you have enough power to finished it. And don’t put your self in slavery back because we Haitian people’s ready to take our land back ok. Anywhere anytime you see a lion 🦁 sleeping 😴😴 don’t bother him
SO GO TO YOUR ORIGINAL AFRICA, THERE ARE YOUR LAND, YOU EVEN HAVE TAINO BLOOD IN YOUR BODY HJAHAHA SO TAKE YOUR SPOT AND GO TO YOUR ORIGINAL AFRICA
DR already defeat Haiti in war 😂 why you think island is 2 nation . Tell them Zoes to attack the DR and the Dominicans will chase them down with machetes like they did their ancestors. Try to find out
Dominicans beat Haitians so many times already stop it sis
True is. DR is an independent country. Yet you guys killed ya own president huh. Oh let me guess.. the Dominican killed him . Pathetic.. the same energy ya have to steal a river, fix your country with the same energy
As a American living here for over 23 years,I support the Dominican government to stop illegal imergraction
They need to stop dumping illegal guns in Haiti and stop destabilizing the country.
Thanks for also proving that our education system still sucks since you still can’t spell “immigration”.
Clearly a racist living in the DR ! Illegal immigration you say? 😂 as u are an American im sure you know very well about illegality
Dome I can not. Good. Very. Cruel
Is the same people and island
No
Not the same people. How can 2 completely different countries be the same people?
Negative very different people
Haiti has nothing to lose. They should close the border forever.
@John Victor Let me guess, I should take your opinion seriously, right?
No, as dominican i want the best for the good people of Haiti, but they need to work together to change their future and life of generations. many of us are not in favor of the border being closed. but we have to back our government decisions. because the river situation is not set up to help haitian people and thats the fact.
@Johnny Blaise we don’t need to find anything we own and run the market and it’s your people that come to it.
@X3730 OK, so that means there’s no need for Haitians to shop in those markets. We know that you don’t need Haitians buying from your markets, correct?
@Johnny Blaise correct
Pa obeyi,it’s time for the Haitian army to rise up again and those Haitian politicians to go to trials.The bourgeoisies place those people in power for a reason to further destabilize Haiti and enriched themselves in the process.If you don’t like Haiti get out.We don’t need to do no business with no Dominicans people, what for?
Keep digging and start 10 more canals.
The river starts in DR😂 we can stop the flow of water at any time
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THEY ARE DIVERTING THE RIVER AND ARE DOING DAMAGE TO THE ESCOSYSTEM AND THE AVITY OF LAKE OF SALADILLO..,😢😢😢 HAITI STOP 🛑
SEÑORES YA SE ACABO EL ESTAR DANDOLE TANTA LATA AL TEMA HAITIANO, ES SIMPLE, EN REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA SE HACE LO QUE DIGAN LOS DOMINICANOS 🇩🇴 Y PUNTO.
DONDE ESTÁN LOS FRANCESES?
DONDE ESTÁN LOS ESPAÑOLES?
DONDE ESTÁN LOS AMERICANOS?
DONDE ESTÁN LAS ONG?
DONDE ESTÁN LOS EMPRESARIOS HAITIANOS?
DONDE ESTÁN LOS QUE LES DUELE HAITÍ?
PORQUE SIEMPRE ES REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA QUE TIENE QUE ESTAR PIDIENDO AYUDA PARA HAITÍ?
DÍGANME PORQUE HAY QUE ESTAR ESCUCHANDO OPINIONES EN CONTRA DE REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA 🇩🇴 QUE SOMOS LIBRES, SOBERANOS E INDEPENDIENTES?
SI HABLAN MAL DE LOS DOMINICANOS MIENTRAS AYUDAN HAITÍ Y HACEN TODO A FAVOR DE LOS HAITIANOS ENTONCES SI HACIÉNDOLES EL BIEN NOS ACABAN, ENTONCES ACABEMOS ESO ELLOS EN SU PAÍS Y NOSOTROS EN EL NUESTRO!.
It’s about superiority 😫🤦
No. Its about law and order. not destroying the environment like Haiti has done. Hatians have no respect for its natural resources. Thats why you barely have trees in Haiti.
People are struggling while government keeps enriching themselves from foreign $ and tax payers reservoir but never on the field to actually help their ‘people’ as much as they claim in political conferences.
They overthrow our most popular presidents times and times again. Recently, they assassinated president Jovenel. They killed our creole pigs in the 1970. They destroyed our agriculture. Haiti has no factories nor gun factories whatsoever. Now they keep on dumping illegal guns to Haiti and destabilized the country even more. The same people that are dumping illegal guns to Haiti want to be the solution. I don’t get it. I don’t know what kind humanitarian aids to Haitians Domincana is talking about when they are killing Haitians illegal or legal in their country. This barbarism needs to stop in a civilized world of 2023. We are in 2023 now. This barbarism needs to stop. 60% of the human body is made of water. Water is life. you prevent them from having water to grow their own foods and you are talking about humanitarian aids /crisis. what kind of nonsense is that? Before the U.N came to Haiti there was not a single case of cholera in Haiti. They brought us cholera. If they really want to help Haiti, they need to stop sending illegal guns to Haiti. Most of them are hypocrites. Down racism against Haiti now!!!!!!
Just send all Haitians back to Africa where they belong. Haiti is not very hospitable for life the country been a welfare state sense it was created the French stole everything and now its basically a dry desert with uncontrollable births rates, crime, gangs and just horrific.
Let’s go DR
No that’s not true. HAITI DONT GIVE A DAMMMMM about the border being opened. Stop lying. Close the border indefinitely
No haitians do not need the border to reopen. All these putas need to stay right they belong
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THATS WHY YOU ARE LIKE THAT, BECUASE YOUR ARE LIARSSSSSS, THE RIVER BORN AND DIE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AND HATIANS ARE VILIOTING THE RULES OF THE CONTRACT, WHAT THEY WANT IS TO TAKE ALL THE WATER, BUT THATS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
Haitians are VERY HARD WORKING people
It amazes me
I’m glad they are standing up to the DOMINICANS
They can’t alter the River and our military would wipe them out so fast if they really try to stand up to us
They work so hard that their country went upside down like a turtle in distress, very hard working people indeed!
@X3730 well well well. The last time I checked we are still working. Kanal la ap fini!
@Guarocuya stupid, there is a big difference between the people and the government.
“Standing to the Dominicans” is that what this is all about? standing with and for what?. that sounds like revenge ( i sense pure typical nigerish sentiment here).
The comment section shows the amount of brainwashing black peoples and Haitians have done across the globe when it comes to the DR. The DR is doing nothing wrong and asking haiti to follow the treaty they both agreed and somehow people saying DR is wrong and Haiti should keep digging even though what they are doing is wrong and in violation of the treaty. I will take it upon myself to create a video showing the racism of Haitians and black people and paint a full picture of how racist these people are
😂😂😂😂 go team dr your doing God’s work
Self determination
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Is not Haitian farmers is a group of investors digging a canal for a river that starts and ends in the Dominican Republic. The river crosses through Haiti for 2 kilometers, the equivalent of a mile. Haitians are solidifying and walking back over the border.
Exactly, these are the lies these people dont want outhere.
People. Stop talking and agreeing with things you do not know. First of all, what is hoing on right now in haiti isn’t even between goverments. It’s because as always they do whatever they want and don’t listen to no one violating agreements, otherwise ask the USA and Canada. I do not hate them, but they like to show to everyone in the world specially your network so that you keep feeling sorry and send more money to the goverment or private charity organization and you still belive. Why is it that you only go to the border and only ask questions to ungreatful haitians that love to speak bad about my country and then talk lies behind our back about things that isn’t happening. I will just ask you or suggest one thing, why don’t all of you instead of coming to the Dominican Republic go to haiti instead, try to get to know who the really are and you will see for tourself that they can’t be trusted including their government. It’s their culture. You help them and always become ungreatful. Check real statistic so you know what we really do for them and compare who else help them the way we have. F-OFF BEFORE PUTTING THE DOMINICAN SIDE AS THE BAD ONES.
We stand with you Haiti 🇭🇹 ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🇺🇸 there’s a global awakening for ACTION no more talking!
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@Ruben Diaz 🤣🤣🤣🤣 easy enough
Are you South African?
You destroy your home and want to go destroy your neighbors home too? Nah
Dominican Republic really has misfortune to share a island with Haiti.
Haiti has been ruined by its elites and by the US.
Haitians need to stop using excuse of racism to mask their failure.
how is this not an act of war?
The Dominicans are very mean and racist towards dark black skin, many African tourists have been harassed, mistreated, ironic because of their skin color, there many tourists have been victims of trapping and even killed, it is one of the very dangerous countries with organ removal but everything is hidden its true reality be careful if you are tourism there
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I didn’t know the Dominican Republic was a white country.
This canal is an offense to the peace treaties signed by both countries to ensure cooperation and preservation of our rivers. The Haitian government doesn’t even supports that canal, the guilty are the Haitian elites and gangs acting without any regards to laws and agreements
Why must we share an island with them out of all the cultures in the world, we have to share it with the worst of the worse. It has nothing to do with color and everything to do with culture. Haitians are angry, jealous haters and their land shows how they feel on the inside.
Haitians been planning to take D.R over since day 1!!!!!!!!!! I am prepared to go to D.R and fight for my country if I have to!!!!!!!!!
I wish america would close its borders to the Dominican Republic. They ruined my state. By far the dumbest people I’ve ever met
The problem is that the Haitians ate their natural resources, cut down the trees to make charcoal, completely deforested their country without thinking about the consequences, they went to the Republic to suburbanize the country, a Haitian woman gave birth to 6 and 7 children, in the Republic for the most part In the hospitals the beds are occupied by Haitians who reproduce like rabbits, it has become a health crisis, but if you do not live in the republic it is very easy to give an opinion from outside.
“The Dominican Republic is taking it to the next level” the international media always try to shows the DR as an oppressor!
Tell the truth… Dominican Republic already have 11 canals and this the 1st canal Haitians are building from the river…. Haitians don’t need DR to feed them. If anything DR is about to get reality check … Haitians fought and freed the whole island in 1804….WE are about to do it again… unification of the Haitian people is on the way.✊🏽🔥