Dominican Republic closes border with Haiti amid tensions over canal
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The Dominican Republic has closed its border with Haiti because Haitian farmers are building a canal from a shared river.
On Sunday, the country’s defence and industry ministers visited the border town of Dajabon.
Al Jazeera’s John Holman reports from Dajabon, Dominican Republic.
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The same energy they are using now should be used to rebuild their country. The Dominican Republic can no longer carry that load. We are not a rich country. We are facing poverty as well. They need to get together and rebuild their country.
Fr!
We know because Dominican can't stop rape and killed their tourists
exactly that's what i said so if this canal would keep them in their country let them have it and close your bother forever. what happened to that wall you guys were building?
we shoulda never helped you gain independence ungrateful mfs
But yet, 160,000 Venezuelans were invited to take up residence on the island..we know all about the "blanqueo"
so save it..
I am Dominican and i have no hate towards 🇭🇹 i just wish they could understand that they must unit and fix their issues in their country and rebuilt and take care of their land. Dominicans are not their enemies Hatians are their own enemies. You can’t go in no ones house and demand NOTHING when you have already destroyed the little bit of things you had. That’s not how it works.
The situation is way more complex!!! Dominican government is part of the problem. You don’t know what your talking about. What demands ?
exactly what demands ?. Dominicans are definitely part of the problem smh. It’s obvious that we help DR become where it is today. The canal must continue ‼️‼️
Respect bro
@@Messiah-vi9mkpfft its always someone elses problems
Preach brother..cause all they'll do is bring all their problems and destruction over to the DR.
In Jamaica they put stop to this Haitians craziness.
In Haiti they don't put a stop to it because the UN benefits from Haiti and then blames the Dominicans
@@marielvisvargas-mf1uhHow does the un benefits from haiti,?
@@sarumaiYTESP😂😂😂 VERY SIMPEM MONEY !!!!
¿Dónde están todos los que defienden la ecología del planeta???
Ahora los dominicanos deben permitir que un grupo de pandillas destruyan y sequen también los ríos de su país?????????
¿Hasta dónde llegaremos con el deseo de hacer que República Dominicana cargue con el estado fallido de Haití?????
Haiti fue robado de su treasures de el banco nacional en el 1912 por CitiBank traido por los estados unidos. El mismo pais que le dio pistolas a Trujillo para matar los haitianos y dominicanos que no querian seguir el racismo de Trujillo y su pandilla.
YO SIEMPRE HE DICHO QUE AHITI ES UNA ESPADA DE DAMOCLA RACISTAGENOCISA PENDIENDO SOBRE EL CUELLO DE LAS NACIONES DE LAS ANTILLAS.
EL PELIGRO MAS GRANDE QUE ENFRENTAN LAS NACIONES DE LAS ANTILLAS SON MIGRACIONES MASIVAS DE ESA GENTE PERVERSA QUE ACESINARON A LAS MINORIAS ETHNICAS DE OTROS GRUPOS RACIALES Y AHORA QWUIEREN EXTENDERSE COMO UNA PLAGA EN LOS PUEBLOS DE LAS ANTILLAS, REPRODUCIRSE COMO CUCARACHAS Y AL FINAL HACER LO MISMO QUE HICIERON CON LAS MINORIAS QUE VIVIEN EN AHITI.
Porque es una isla. Antes de haití y la república dominicana existía hispaniola. Los dos países siempre estarán atados juntos no importa cuánto ustedes tratan de separarse de ellos. No se puede contar la historia de la república dominicana sin hablar de haití y vice versa.
@@jalenmcmeans7728
Entonces como somos una isla edo les da derecho a destruir nuestro río???
Zambomba¡!!!¡!!@@@@@@@!!!!!
@@davidfrancisco2135 no he oído eso, pero si hay gente que está haciendo eso necesitan ser castigados. Pero no se puede culpar ni castigar a todos por los crimenes de pocos.
God bless you DR love from Spain
Thank ❤
@@A.p.p1996 ❤️
Haiti better
@@chrismontana2780never in the life 🤣🤣
lol
Haití 🇭🇹 is it’s own enemy, NOT THE DOMINICANS
Langyet manman w
@@yvngzoe5095gen esklav deyò a se nèg konsa ki te anfas emperor a
My exact thought. That’s why their country is in ruins.
@@yvngzoe5095 A callar masisi.
@@DCampusano1Yeah right our own gang leaders say most of their guns and bullets come from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴.
Let's talk about the fact that a certain country supposedly found a gold mine in haiti that they want, and to mine it they need a whole lot of water regardless of who suffers the consequences of the waste of water.
Canadá 🍁
@@josenunez8318 I heard it's the US but i don't have proof to back it up. Regardless of who it is, it's obvious that countries in power will never change. They oppress, rob, destabilize and destroy weaker countries.
You hit the nail in the head with that one. Haiti definitely has something that atleast two big countries have slowly but surely been getting away with mining gold.
This is all a distraction as usual, as a matter of fact it wouldnt surprise if as a right now they’re mining ⛏️.
@@fz094ever4 Yup. And they make their massive fortune, haitian crooks make their cut and the rest of haiti the majority plummit deeper into instability.
@@F.U.B.A.H.O.R clearly this time around the people of Haiti will be left without Gold and without water
Long live Dominican Republic!!! We stand with the Dominican people.
Lol but Haitians built everything in your country 😂
@@thestoryteller4490 do they work for free? They should thank the Dominican people for giving them work and hospitality.
@@adrianogutierrezhernandez8137you're right my bro.If the Haitian people didn't lose their dignity you couldn't say something like that even in your dreams.
A bad day doesn't mean it's the end of everything.
@@thestoryteller4490 that's bs. Dominicans built Dominican republic. Haitians were just used as cheap labor.
@@adrianogutierrezhernandez8137No they don’t but you’re also charging them higher rent and stealing their stuff. Hospitality!!! The treatment they receive is inhumane . Dominican can kill and steal from Haitians with impunity.
Close the border. They don't need to deal with someone else's problems anyway.
Exactamente
Keep the border close majority of the money from domincan Republic trade comes from Haiti anyways. Let's see how it affects DR 🇭🇹🤷🏾♀️
@@BeaJay477Trade between DR and Haiti is 1 billion dollars a year which represents 0.8% of DR’s GDP. The same 1 billion dollars represents 4% of Haiti’s GDP. It will affect Haiti’s economy 4x more than it will affect the Dominican Republic’s economy.
1 billion a year Haitian are dumbs why not do your own stuff smh
@@DynamicUnrealhahaha you're dumb 😂😂
Dominicano hasta la muerte 💪🏼🇩🇴💙
Dominican Republic is on the right side of history on this 🇩🇴
LOL. Only if your assessment is that violating treaties and international law constitutes the ''right side of history''. Dominicans sure have a knack for alternative thinking 🤣
What history 🤔 without 🇭🇹 DR is NOTHING. Just wait time will tell and we Haitian we won’t back down
@@e.gedeon8681 🇩🇴 is a BLESSED country in every way, meanwhile in the other hand look at haiti catastrophe after catastrophe. That’s because of the evil in the haitian people. Buddhism is only the start
@@e.gedeon8681 without Haitians we would be flourishing lol. Go back to eating your mud cookies
@@BlackMoonstone531 Haitians do, bc they struggle with identity
This was expected from a country like Haiti.
I am Haiti. We are no longer wants to be a slave to the Dominican we are tire of working on sugar cane plantations. We are a nation of God just like any other country. The time for Haiti to be liberated is now!!!!!!
Haiti 🇭🇹 always living in disorder And Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 it’s a country in order
You have a short minded person . Sendomeng is the number 1 sabotager of HAITI'S PROBLEMS INCLUDING THE ASSAINATION OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOISE. THAT'S THE COLOMBIAN Came before entering HAITI.
Really, then why so many Dominicans here in America, if La República is so GREAT?
@@senorchill503😂😂
@@senorchill503America is a country of immigrants . I see you are not very smart . People from every country are in USA . Does it mean their home country is bad ?
@@senorchill503Excellent answer! These Dominicans are delusional! 😂
Dominican Republic is rich while Haiti is the poorest country of America and one of the poorest of the world. They don't think, they just act. Thanks Juan, Ramon and Francisco.
They needs white mens brain
Everyone told the Haitians not to burn their forests and they didn't pay attention to that. Even former Vice President of the United States Al Gore made a documentary that presented the devastation of Haiti due to its primitive level of education. The Haitians dried 4 rivers in their country and now they intend to divert a river that belongs to both countries. They are violating an agreement signed by the two countries 1929 about not to divert the Dajabón River. This should alert all the Dominican people and teach us that our becinos are our enemies.
these people who opinionate on what they don’t understand 🤦🏽 .
It doesn’t matter if DR has 4 or 5 or 11 canals none of our canals Divert the flow of the river and all our canals were approved by both GVTs why are these commentators so blind ?
The DR government approved it back in 21 before the president got killed
How one canal will divert the river and your 11 ones not?
@@danie2936because the canals were built to not divert it, that’s why the Haitian government was okay with it, so by process of LOGIC and ELIMINATION, this CANAL is breaking the treaty due to the fact that it does divert the path, it does not meet the requirements nor safety environmental standards, hence why all of this drama is going on. If it didn’t divert it wouldn’t, and if it does not divert I want you to link your sources
Al Jazeera supports creating conflict in the west while they cover all excesses in the islamic world.
@@erick-ub9nhbut the dominican government approved of haitis canal in 2021... so what now 😂😂😂 u people are jokes oh my God. A bunch of liars
Closing the border is the best thing that happened, they are learning to grow their own food, rebuilt their country. America needs to remove their arm embargo on Haiti so its military could go after the so-called gangsters. The bad guys get their weapons from Florida and good guys are being deprived the right to defend themselves.
Haiti needs to worry about Haiti. Im sure The Domincan Republic is tired of them. DR has grown, but Haiti hasnt cause of why? Its own people. DR must suffer cause of their nonsense.
It funny how we think alike, I'm begin to think Luis abinader dream of being Haiti president, I never seen him asked help or talk of what best for his people. As a Haitian I am so happy he close the borders so the 5 million dollars Haitian send in DR per year can stay in Haiti. Unfortunately It is illegal for a foreign to be president in Haiti, as a Lebanese he could never be president of Haiti.
If you are going to make a story. Could you make sure to get the actual facts before making fake news? Why didn't the reporter say that Haiti disforests its country, and that is why they don't have water. Also, why did you say that the river is located in the Dominican Republic mountain and is 55 Kilometers long, and Haiti only has 7 kilometers of water? The 7 kilometers they have are the border of the two countries, and the canal building could cause the river to be diverted and affect the farmers on the Dominican side.
I am going to research the source, and length of the river, as I know nothing about it. However if the Dominican Republic has the source and many more kilometers than Hati, then what's the problem? The DR can divert water to their own farmers from the source. However I believe there is more to this canal building than farming by the Haitians. Haitians are known to be backward and lazy. Instead of practicing Voodoo, they should move into the 21st century, take up science and technology, and farm on their own land, instead of cutting down the trees, thereby destroying the land, and depending on DR to feed them. Same land divided into two, and look at the difference in culture, and innovations
Haiti is 32% forested, a number similar to the coverage in the United States, France, and Germany, and far higher than in Ireland and England. DR's 11 structures along the river are excessive and creating dryness on the Haitian side of the border region. The river is shared by both the DR and Haiti as per geography, treaty and international law .
That’s not true. Haiti has a heavily environmental problem. Haiti uses 60% of charcoal for their energy. No one has measured the amount of forest coverage in Haiti recently but it’s believed to be in the single digits. From 60% 1923
@@BlackMoonstone531 Check again, Haiti is heavily deforested. Trees were cut down for fuel and charcoal. Restrictions are in place in DR to hinder deforestation. Therefore it is richer in foliage. Clearly the trees help in cloud formation and rain. Black people the world over are unable to control themselves and govern properly. I once saw a snake take one egg from a nest of two, and moved on, instinctively knowing that to take both, after a while there will be no birds to lay more eggs, Sorry to say the snake knows better than the man of color. just look at the difference between DR and Haiti
@@BlackMoonstone531--- Maybe years ago, but as of right now, less than 2% of Haiti is forested. Check with friends in Haiti, and global research on forestry
The 1929 agreement say any country can change the course of the river, only the farmers at side of the river can use the water without affecting the resource, including about 200 Dominicans and Haitians farmers. These water canal design use 3mts^3/s and the rivers its 2.5mts^3/s, these means no more river below that point, all the farmers with decades at side of the river and below that point (Haitians and Dominicans) will be affected. So, the same historic disorder but now affecting also the Dominican Republic.
I think you meant "can't change the course of the river"
Abinader signed an agreement letter in 2021 with president Jovenel Moise to approve the construction of the canal. He's doing all this because he wants to use it as an electoral campaign. He signed it. The Haitian government has many copies of the receipt. He's a liar and an imposter.
lmao, thats a lie. anyone can use google map and see DR use the river to irrigate for their farmers. The canal will be build and the river will still exist. Stop the bs
@@tsemlesentimental6051they use it without changing the course. But not like the Haitians they want to change the course of the river will be ending up in Haiti. Nobody says that haiti can't use the river what we say is you can't change the course of the river.
Y’all the one lying
🤩🤩I’ve been to Dominican Republic so many times it’s a beautiful country and nice people. Dominican Republic wants to protect it’s populace from other migrants. You have to understand they can’t let everyone in that country cause that would cause mayhem.
@realestate_raheemaly, Are you aware that the DR is financing most of the insecurity in Haiti in order to boost their tourism sector? All of the mercenaries who killed our late President Jovenel Moise traveled in a private jet(owned by a high level government official) from the DR. Today, they want border to reopen, and we want it to remain closed until further notice. Can you guess why that’s the case?
the people are not trying to cross over, they trying to build a farm to feed themselves and cross over less I thought Dominican would have love that
@@pastorgoof, I’m aware!, we (Haitians) want to border to remain closed (Operation LOCK FRONTIER ⚔️🇩🇴). We are too busy working on the canal, and we in the dyaspora are 100% committed to finance it along with many other projects that our late president Jovenel envisioned. It’s our responsibility to make our people great again.
You don't know what you're talking about. The USA destroyed Haiti agriculture, military and throwing money at corrupt dictators. They pick who to lead and govern Haiti. Do research on USA past occupations of Haiti, the Clintons. Since 1914 Washington is running the Island. Raheem, i bet you say the same thing about Israel! Haiti occupied DR for 25 years and gave them their independence. Dominicans and Haitians are brothers and sisters, Washington is running both countries. Everyone in America is a migrant or children or grandchildren of migrants, except African Americans and native Americans are not migrants. Stop the hate Raheem, love your neighbors even if they don't look like you.
You got it all wrong
The river originates in the DR and many years ago the DR built the Dajabon bypass in case the Haitians would do something like this. The river turns into Haiti for a few kilometers but it can be routed to remain in the DR side via the Dajabon bypass. The bypass was never used, it is being cleared of vegetation growth now. It will be ready in 60 days. A simple explosive charge will maintain the entire course of the river in the DR. Haiti can build a canal on their side, a dirt canal for all the good it will do.
Good, can't wait for DR to do this
Lies.
Both nation is divided by foreign cooperation while they sucking up both side.
@@neslylouis2004 Our side is doing amazing thanks.
im guessing you are Dominican n forget your half Haitian
The river rises in Dajabón, Dominican Republic, and ends in Bahía de Manzanillo, Dominican Republic. Of the 55 km² that the Masacre (Dajabón) River has, 48 km² is the exclusive property of the Dominican Republic. Only 6.5 km² of the remaining 7 are common to both sides. This strip (6.5 km²) has the category that in Public International Law is called "cross-border". The remaining 500 meters are the domain of neighboring Haiti. With those 500 meters, Haitians can do whatever they want (except diverting the course of the river with illegal canals), including their right to exploit it, just as they plundered all their natural resources (no offense, it's a sad fact.) Right now, Haiti is better off letting itself be guided (From a distance of course) by the Dominican Republic than by the Haitian mafias led by cavemen who use medieval policies to loot their own people. The Haitians are their own enemies, not the Dominican Republic.
sorry but we have an Agreement from 1929 that says that river cant be touch by any nations. If they build a "canal" they will Dry that river. And will Have an Ecological Impact in various Ecosystems near by.
@@4BlueXerces why sorry? That's exactly what I mentioned: they cannot divert the course of the river.
Haitians aren’t smart enough to realize this.
@@soyraphaelolivero sorry i misunderstood. now i understand.
@@4BlueXercesthat's why the DR built 11 canals over it? 😂😂😂
Dominicans are Hispanics, they have Spanish and native blood. Hattians don't have a drop of either blood, they were imported from another continent. I don't see the need for the Dominicans to help Haiti at all, they are a developing country themselves.
Well said !!
Haitians are also latinos. They share the same culture as DR
@@mrsmith1938 Aren't Haitians french?
J'aime la façon dont vous vendez l'image d'Haïti,
Haïti n'est pas seulement Port-au-Prince, c'est aussi Labadee, Gelée, port salut, Citadelle la Ferrière, vertiere,
Grotte Marie-Jeanne, et j'en passe
They are very ignorant, the canal is not going to solve any Haitian problem.
So if my neighbor has a water pipe that runs through my property, I have a right to divert it into my house by attaching a branch line, causing my neighbor to lose access to his water ? The source of the water is his and it ends at his property but due to my arrogance I say it's my water by diverting it and I don't care about my neighbor's water nor do I care to get his approval or come to an agreement ? Is that how that works now !? Nope...I like how President Albinader will divert the water prior to reaching Haiti and it will be diverted back into DR to avoid this issue - now Haiti can go back to fighting each other and leave DR alone....
It's not the real news.
The project in question has the apparent intention of channeling water for the purpose of selling it privately to Haitian farmers, without official authorization from the Haitian Government. It could cause ecological damage to the vital freshwater lake ecosystem of Laguna Saladilla, one of the most important wetlands in the Dominican Republic. etc., etc.
That river is not on the Haitian side, that river is born and finish in the Dominican Republic, just 2 kilometers pass through the border not Haiti, the border between both countries
Im dominican, the river arises in Rep Dom, and ends here too, they violating the international teaty, if they do that, the order to make a dale here to stop the river is done, working on it, because Haiti dont respect, whos gonna suffer now, for not respecting the international treaty
Shut your mouth! You don’t know what you’re talking about. The DR can’t stop this canal from being built, if they could they would’ve stopped it long time ago. The treaty isn’t being broken. Your people are just angry and filled with greed! Repent you selfish!
Dominicana unidos 🇩🇴🇩🇴
Man, Haiti are those neighbours who are always fighting, the musics too loud, and you can smell the trash from their backyard from across the fence.
It's not for "farmers" it is a company who wants to sell the water to farmers 😂 please! Definitely a hit piece..
Blah blah blah smd
i hate the way this people of A Jazeera always take a wrong side
Totally agree
Like all news channels, they are a globalist organization. Thus, their job is to promote the one world government which is basically the destruction of all christian countries by the invasion of people from non-christian countries. It's all a plan and they get paid to spread lies and push the narrative that the globalists pay them to push.
Let em be mad cuh we bout to build 10 more 😭
Yap konn jòg, mwè yap jape la 😂
And our president is fixing to dam the river near to where it is born. The dam will be ready in about 30 months. 🤡
Keep messing around and the worthless country Haiti won’t have a River . DR will build a dam. Let’s see how many you build after that .
The difference between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is Abysmal, one is rich the other really poor, it’s hard to tell if Haiti will ever solve the problem
DR could just divert the canal when ever they want it starts in the DR side
Y termina también
They have started to build one to do just that lol
🎯
Have you wondered why there's drought in Haiti and in DR and everywhere else nearby is everything green? DR have taken care of their rivers, beaches and trees. On the other hand, Haiti have devastated their forests, fauna, rivers on their side. Is it easy to ask for what the other have when you have been careless and devastated what you have.
Exactly 💯👍
Wow interesting!!!!
This is a lie that Dominicans and some elements of mainstream media will keep pushing until the end of times. It has been scientifically proven that Haiti is more than 32% forested, a number similar to the coverage in the United States, France, and Germany, and far higher than in Ireland and England. While areas of problematic deforestation exists, Haiti is very much green. Haiti also has several rivers flowing on its territory. In fact, 3 of Haiti's rivers supply the Massacre river on which the canal is being built with a huge chunk of its water debit. Furthermore, it has also been demonstrated that the DR's 11 works on the river reduce the water flow by 49% which hinders the amount of water available to Haiti on its side of the border.
Islands have wet sides and dry sides. Haiti is on the drier side of the island. No amount of human activity is going to change that.
@@allydr90stop it, dont fool yourself
No it si not a show we can’t let our guard down you should neve trust a Haitian
Dominican republic already built 11 canals on their end and they have an issue with haitians building only ONE??? wow
Those canals don't impact the river flow. Haitians keep it up, DR will bomb the canal
They have issues with changing the course of the river
I don't blame them, they live to the country closest to an anarchy.
Our Haitian brothers and sisters are blind by desperation. I do not blame them, I blame their politicians, who have taken so much advantage, and still take advantage of them. The politicians knew this canal was a violation of the 1929 treaty. Nonetheless, they still started the canal, and now are politicizing the situation to gain sympathy. At the end, it is the people of Ouanaminthe who will suffer, not the politicians, not the elite, not the Haitians in the diaspora.
That's all nonsense
Your politicians have violated that treaty 11 times.
Your president is using the situation just to increase his popularity, it's his plan dor the 2024 campaign.
What interest would haitians politians have politicize it. It's not their their decision, it's the people's decision.
@anthon8813 I am fully aware our president is also politicizing the situation. All politicians are the same. That's why I say Haitian politicians are politicizing the situation while taking advantage of the Haitian people. If you think politicians will buy materials for this canal out of generosity, you need to get out the bubble. Watch the real owners of the canal sell the water to the farmers if the canal gets completed. Remember, the canal is not a government infrastructure.
Also, that story of the 11 canals is false. It is not wise to repeat everything you find on Tik Tok or Facebook or IG without investigating first. The 1929 treaty only refers to transboundary waters. The Dajabon river is 55 kilometers long. Only 9 kilometers of the 55 kilometers are considered transboundary waters.
It's the way of the people as a whole. Not an individual
I am sorry cause this may hurt you brother, but what you just said is a bunch of nonsense man.
You violated that treaty 11 times man, the source of the river is in your country, but it flows through our territory which gives us the right to use it plus we have 3 rivers that intersect with it so you've using our water we never said anything about it.
It's a shame that you guys are even talking about it, but it's not your fault, it's your president who apparently has an agreement with businessmen from your country and my country to destoy the bilateral market so the poor can't benefit from it.
Haiti can import from central America but only rich people will be able to participate in that trade and your business will export to other countries but only rich people will participate in that trade as well, so now tell what happens to the poor.
You are the first Haitian I've seen who understands!
Is not the same use its water to change the natural way of the river and take it into haiti to sale the water. Haitians have destroyed all their resourses and now come for the Dominicans resourses.
You know nothing about Haiti and the Dominican republic
@@jdonmeltonhe’s definitely right , they’ve destroyed their natural resources .
You are dummy to get into this which resource they are taken the river is not Dominican property it belongs for both countries dummy
@@jdonmelton He is telling the truth. The river originates in the DR. It passes only two kilometers through Haiti and returns to Dominican territory. Search for the Artibonito River on Google and you will see.
@@jdonmelton Actually he does you just hate the truth. Cry about it!!
Viva República Dominicana 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Vive la république d'haïti💪💪💪💪
@@familledumorne3409 Haitians are the enemies of Haitians. Fix your own country instead of trying to destroy another one.
Ayiti!
Long live the empire of hayti🇭🇹🇭🇹
We support Haiti ♥love
Why do you support Haiti and not the Dominican Republic?
Si quieres apoyarlo brindenle ayuda. No le dejen todo a República Dominicana
The Hypocrisy from the Dominican Republic, they have like 11 canals but they complain because Haiti is building 1; plus, Haiti has the right to build canals since the people need for farming and drinking.@@abeldelosangeles6255
Nadie le pide ayuda a República Dominicana. Haití está construyendo el bendito canal. When you were asked for helped, you said no, so Haiti is doing things themselves 😁@@Gabriel28021
Go to Haiti and help them ...decent people will support the just claims of DR.
We stand with you Haiti 🇭🇹 ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🇺🇸 there’s a global awakening for ACTION no more talking!
Shut up welfare baby 🇵🇷🇳🇬🇯🇲🇨🇺🇹🇹🇩🇴🤜🏿🏳️🌈🇭🇹
Callese maldito gringo
Dumb a$$, DR has helped Haiti more than any other neighboring country including “black”countries! People really can’t think for themselves!
@@CaribbeanWarrior85win
Nah
The Dominican government is right in doing this.
The Dr have 11 water
Entry n Haitian are starving
And can’t get 1
The treaty specifies that they can be built in those areas where the river does not serve as a limit between both countries. Not allowed where it is being built. They have destroyed their own country. And they want to destroy other Country resources? The difference between a country with order is that they follow the laws. If Haiti wants to be one they need to start doing it.
It is a Dominican river, they can have as many canals as they please, it is their river. The problem with the canal Haiti is building is that it will divert all the water over to Haiti.
@@IsMaryStillPoppin it does not matter that is or not a Dominican river treaty is a treaty and must be respected.
@@adrianpaulino the treaty was developed to regulate use of the waters that cross over to Haiti, not to regulate use of dominican waters. Yet, the DR said it will keep fair use of the river, which they have done as none of the canals built have prevented Haiti from still getting water from the river. However, the canal Haiti is building holds more water per cubic meter than the river currently has, which will 100% divert all the water. Haiti is the one in violation of the treaty, not the DR.
Lol I’m pretty Sure the Treaty Sign 🪧
In 1929 -2023 that’s 94 Years Ago
This Is How You treat Your Neighbors
Haitians Fought In Help Dr Get it’s independence as Well.
what a novel idea, enforcing your own border. It would be brilliant if USA would do the same.
Closing the Border also means that Dominican businesses will also lose Revenue.
DR will suffer some losses ,but Haiti will literally starve!
@@dariomartinez459 No they are not, it's business, another country will provide.
@@judekeplert2 You do realise that as a business you have shipping costs since this is an island which will increase costs exponentially and Haitians aren't exactly rolling in money? Or maybe it's voodoo economics 🤣
@@dariomartinez459 the 2010 earthquake revealed that Haiti has more Oil, than any other country on earth. What happens to countries with a lot of oil?
@@dariomartinez459no one in Haiti cares about starvation. We do not want to depend on you anymore. We all need this canal and more than that.
I'm Haitian I love my country Haiti must be liberated
From who ?
Haiti was decent when Papa Doc was running it.
Liberado de quien ?
@@Gentejode Themselves
@@dexterwestin3747 the only thing tt ih holing back haitians is haitians
I love my Haitian brothers n sisters pray that this could be put behind us 🙏🏾
It can be , Haiti just needs to respect laws, agreements and other country lands 🙏 DOminican Republic has been nothing but a blessing to Haiti 🙏 and now Haiti after depleting their resources wants to deplete another nation resources , it’s just not the right thing to do.
'''Haitians need the water for farming''' ? What farming? Haitians have proven themselves to be lazy and backward. They cut down the trees destroying the land, then buy produce from the Dominican Republic, next door. All they know to do is jump like African clowns, and think tourists love it, and practice USELESS black magic, instead of moving into the 21st century. Two countries side by side, look at the difference
@@Mikemiker Be specific what resources are you referring to?
@@Messiah-vi9mk Forests.
@@Mikemikerthey dont respect themselves, they dont respect any treaty, the river is originated in D.R.
When you don't know about what the topic refers, is better remain silent!
As it should 👏🏼👏🏼
I love the Dominican Republic.... 0:01
The environmental impact of what Haiti is Doing is part of the reason why they are wrong. If DR wanted to act with force they could have gone to loma de Cabrera DR when the river begins and do a canal and drive it to the DR using Haitian logic, but there is one agreement from 1929 and there is also people from both border that benefits from the river.
when black people suffer, they could care less about laws, rules, logic, respecting other people's rights etc... you seem not to understand how black people operate in face of dire straight situations.
I don't think your government wants to do that because they know the little secrets of that river that google doesn't tell you.
@@angelm5950 you wrong it say he river that means the whole of that would be the case the river starts in loma de Cabrera DR they could just do a canal there because it’s in a Dominican territory.
Dominican will open Haiti will remain close excepted our small door will open thank you
no drugs and weapon can't come from domonicany done
The river starts and ends in the DR from its underground aquifer. It would dry up. So it makes sense not letting someone else risk its eco system. Hurting both at the end. If the one in Haiti was already destroyed because of poor leadership.
Haiti is the best
@@majemwethe best shthole
@@astroprotector Like what you were born from
@@majemwe the best demons
Do you know your geography? Do you know how many rivers we have from Haiti that are dumping water in the river massacre? Your ignorance is astounding.
Canal la pap kanpe🇭🇹🇭🇹 The Canal MUST be built!
This river rises on the Dominican Republic side.. the entire river is about 55 miles and only about 7 miles in Haiti.. why does the RD people never deviated the river and why does Haiti has to deviate the river?? They are only damaging the ecosystem just like they have done with all their rivers...why does St the United nations say something about this????
Where is the proof that the Haitian canal will be deviating the river and damage the ecosystem? The DR has 5 irrigation canals on their side as well as aqueducts and dams. Are all these DR constructions deviating the river and perhaps the DR is trying to scapegoat Haiti over what it is doing itself? Because the DR never consulted Haiti before constructing the 11 works on their side of the river. The Massacre river is binational and there are other rivers on the Haitian side that are feeding water into this river. It is not DR's exclusive property. Or is all this hoopla really about Canada's water-hungry gold mining project on the DR side?
The part with the neighbors is frontiers division.
I'm from Haiti I love my country Dominican people very mean and rasiste
Not true!
Keep talking nonsense bud.
Haitian here! Keep building 🎉❤🇭🇹
Ignorance. You do know the canal begins DR and they can just stop the flow. Haiti's ignorance is leading them to self destruction over and over again.
Yes!!!
Not even VOODOO can help HAITI ! 👻💀
Domican Republic already have 11 canal , this our first one
Those canals don’t divert the river they are deeper into the Dominican Republic. We can easily build a dam and ya’ll won’t get shyt but because we are good neighbors we are civil we sit down and discuss. Haitians are immature.
So that means we have to built 10 more!!
This information has been taken the wrong way. There are not 11 canals in the transboundary waters of the Dajabon river.
The river is not Haitian its starts in Loma de Cabrera and it finishes in manasanillo it onl goes through the border 7 kilometers
@@olengimartinez8214 ,, yes i know the river cross our country we have equal rights to use it like you do.
The river starts in Loma De Cabrera, DR, Has 55km, 9 km make part of the border, 2km cross to Haiti and end at Bahia de Manzanillo, DR. Theese Haitians instigator need to be put in place. They destroyed their forest and now want to destroy DR's forest, Is not going to happen.
fair reporting
I was waiting for the mentioning of the gold mining .let me stop..
The canal will not stop ?????
Dominican’s have 11 one down 10 more to be built.
@@Messiah-vi9mkexactly, i dont undestand How they brag about it like some How that canal os gonna brake dr economy or something 😂😂 they are fool of hate.
They might have 11 canals, but none divert the river, which is what Haiti is doing.
Haiti needs to build that wall and stop dealing with DR
Who they gonna deal with? And at what cost.
I would like to know how the 5 Dominican Republic attachments are different than what the Haitians are building?
Cause they’re doing it without permission, thats the treaty
Did the Dominican Republic need permission to do their 5 installments?
there is a treaty that says that neither side can divert the river's water, something that the Haitians are doing, those in the Dominican Republic were supervised by professionals.
@@EEVdonghua Does the the Dominican Republic installments divert water? Did they have to get permission from Haiti to construct them? Who authorizes the Professionals...both Haiti and the Dominican Republic?
@@mayalunics4740 of course DR needs to get permission. This is not something you do arbitrarily.
My Haitians brothers and sisters turn away from WICKEDNESS!! God 🙏 will punish the wicked..STOP!! Y'all madness 😭 and let GOD WORK!!! 🙏🇧🇸 Pray for your country and it's people to turn away from evilness..
The world is evil
God only work when you make the first move
What about other countries constantly bombing each other
Maybe they do evil in a beauty
People don’t see it
You not worth of judging neither me
Leave the task to Jesus.
America become a great nation not by praying or hoping
But by working building their future
Don’t come with this nonsense
Be wise fella.
That BS god you're talking about didn't give us our independence, it was Ogun that allowed us to be free from these European terrorists. White jesus is the invention of the white man.
What .
What is wrong with you?
Gangs finance from Dominican gorvernment
The Dominicans don't want Haiti to produce their own food because it would cut into the Dominican 's forced business on Haiti
Haiti is in Violation of a treaty, haitian gangs and criminals are illegally crossing into the DR less than 2 weeks ago ana haitian murdered an entire family in the border province Dajabon.
But use ur river and natural resources, that river belongs to DR
You both are being played and don't know it. They keeping y'all bickering about a canal while they steal your gold.
Wrong the hatians sold all there trees and messed up their land so they cant grow crops and when had it been legal for the US to go to mexico and take their water without permission ? Now shush yall enslaved us for 22 years destroyed your own country and have voodoo values … your done for ! Go get water from your country your surrounded by water as well foh
@@righteousness8606na the president already said it today he knows its about the gold lol we aint slow trujillo left a guide on how to see all the trickery trujillo even stood up to hitler andddd the US and we beat the marines in 1962 lol americans dont talk about that tho 😂
1:11 Haitians are also doing this in the USA.
Support Haitian rights
Haitians are idiots,DR could dam the river and leave Haitians diverting dirt and idiots who support them just because they are black are even worse.
They dont have the right to divert a river
Defund Haiti
Wrong no farmer, it's not the government it the Gangs in Haiti.
No one said they couldn’t use the water just to not violate the treaty that the Rick of hurting the DR.
It is the DR that is violating the treaty, not Haiti.
@avocadoandtoast4016 as always blaming for your mistakes, help yourself and protect natural resources, and does not let those who want to benefit damage the river by drying out its waters.
@@neliathen638 as always inventing self-serving narratives, help yourself and stop being a selfish and belligerent neighbor. If you're so concerned about damage to the river and drying out its waters, perhaps you should be less greedy with those 11 water structures already on the DR side. The Haitian canal is modest and will not damage anything.
@@BlackMoonstone531 Maldito gringo
@@BlackMoonstone531 those supposed 11 structures does not divert the natural the water away from its natural course. You have every right to use the water. That is not the question. The problem is that eventually the river will dry up and it will be an ecological disaster. Ecologist already said that it’s foolish what is being built.
I hope the politicians don’t sell themself, this is a patriotic metter we need to put the pride upon the money.
Thankfully the Haitians chose to finish this project right before president Abinader's reelection. This is going to be one of the biggest determining factors of his reelection so he cannot afford to let Haiti get away with this.
It’s time that the Blackman understand that they must not start a fight they can’t finish. Keep in mind that it’s from the support of the USA why they Spanish defeated Haiti and walked away with Haiti land. The Spanish cannot defeat Haiti without USA help.
Wtf does Spain have to do with this lol
Wow lol you truly are a genius
the dr government isnt controlling its borders against them. Dr should be tough
Yeah but then the international community will cry out racism and xenophobia or what not. It’s like Dominican Republic has no rights to defend itself from the vermin that is Haiti.
So what, the " international community" didn't do a thing when Russia did what they did in Ukraine so it doesn't matter what they think, most are communist anyway
dig a little bit deeper before you speak against the movement of a country you know nothing about. This project was approved and started by the Haitian government and agreed upon with the Dominican government. (The projects has already been studied by engineers and technicians from both countries) Due to the assassination of the president the people have taken it upon themselves finish this project on their own… they break no treat as this is the first of 7 already built canals being built in Haiti. Dominicans use of the river has actually broken the treaty. This canal creates a way to irrigate crops and promote agriculture which would make Haiti less dependent on their neighbors for food. Haitis dependency is a billion dollar industry for Dominican Republic
Dominican government is showing the world yet again how how selfish and inhumane it is in their treatment of their struggling neighbors
Nope. You are entirely wrong. The canal was stopped in 2021 because IT WAS violating the treaty since it was going to change the course of the river. After the assassination of your president, there weren't any other talks about this topic, all of that was stopped and you guys started building it again recently. The DR did not agree for the canal to be built but for the area to be EXAMINED BY PROFESSIONALS, and bring that info and your plans, to have it approved IF it didn't cause any environmental issues.
The canals on the Dominican side do not divert the river or cause any issues, and I think is obvious since the water is flowing a little bit to your side as always. Isn't it? But I don't think you guys understand, since you have deforested your side to that level.
go stop if you can, and your dr's government, we are waiting for you why are you crying little baby
@@thedollpretty91 Bang. Thanks for easily debunking this Brendy clown.
Y’all are being played by your president. This awakened sense of fresh nationalism that y’all have gained is manufactured by your president so he could get re-elected. You are being played like a fiddle by politicians.
Prayer is not good enough. Rain begging dance every day.
😹😹😹😹
The 1929 treaty signed by both countries gave them equal rights to use river. Dominican Republic already has 10 canals and 1 or 2 aqueducts on the river. This is the first time the Haitians are using it. We have many more canals to match their number. There's a minority of wealthy, racist Dominicans who always push anti Haitians sentiment to manipulate the majority in their own benefits.
The people of Haiti are behind the canal, not the gangs. If you want to talk about gangs, the current Haitian government is the real gangs. They were imposed by force to the Haitian people after the assassination of late president Jovenel Moise. They are backed by the core group (USA, France, Canada embassies). The assassins who killed our president are in power. The whole Haiti don't want them. But the coregroup keep him in power so that they can steal Haiti natural resources. This is not different from what France is currently doing in Africa. USA is currently doing the same.
The information of the 11 canals came from Claude Joseph. He never mentioned the 11 canals are on transboundary waters of the Dajabon river. The key to understand the treaty is the word "transboundary waters". There are not 11 canals in the transboundary waters of the Dajabon River. Furthermore, the documents provided to the Dominican government by Haiti state that the canal will require a water flow of 1.5 m³ per sec and then work its way up to 3 m³ per sec. Due to climate change and deforestation, the Dajabon river is flowing at 1 - 1.5 m³ per sec. It only reaches more than 3 m³ per sec when a storm or hurricane is impacting the area. This is the reason why Dominican authorities are against it. The canal will absorb all the water in the river. We have more than 350 Haitian and Dominican farmers down the river who will not have water to farm more than 24k acres of land.
The smart move would be to discuss the issue and come up with a solution that will benefit both countries, not just one side. Ex: a shared dam like the one US and Mexico have on "Rio Grande". Close to 2 decades ago, the Dominican government suggested 3 shared dams, one on the Dajabon river, one on the Artibonite river, and one on the Pedernales river. DR offered to cover cost of design and split construction cost. The Haitian government never responded back to the Dominican government.
Spot on and nothing but undisputed and most edifying facts. Many will mock and scoff and that is okay but a revolution is in the making right now in Haiti. Prophecy was already written and it will be fulfilled. The Most High is waking up Shemetic people in all four corners of the earth and Haiti is at the center of it. The enemies of Haiti think they have the upper hand but are sadly mistaken. We are in a spiritual war and there is absolutely nothing the satrappee - Domincan Republic and its bosses from USA, France and Canada can do about it. All Praises To The Most High. 🙏🙏🙏
This is not about race or nationalism. This is about the environment and respecting the agreements you signed with your very hospitable neighbors. It's crazy to me how most women in Haiti can't give birth there because they can't pay, yet in Dominican Republic we have laws that say we must give medical treatment to anyone who walks into a hospital regardless of nationality or legal status, so we nurse the Haitian mothers and babies that Haiti refuses to FOR FREE, some hospitals' maternity beds are 70% occupied by Haitian women, and you STILL call us anti-Haitian and racist.
1. We built irrigation canals, not diversion canals. And being that the water comes from our forested mountains and the river runs mostly exlusively in Dominican land and only passes through the Haitian/Dominican BORDER , *not Haiti at any point, we do not need permission from Haiti to use waters and rivers that are exclusively on our land.
2. The canals we built were not only approved by borth governments regardless, but they were built so as to only draw what was absolutely necessary from the river and not block access to Haiti. And it was built by engineers and the environmental protection ministry of DR and their professionals to make sure it caused as little damage to the surrounding mangroves and forest as possible.
3. Haitians are allowed to use the canals that we built. They are shared with over 130 hatians farmers which have access to them 3 days a week. This canal with be devastating to those same Haitian farmers on the South of Haiti.
4. DR started to construct a DAM on this river some years ago, but because the Haitian government opposed it, the construction was cancelled as we are a treaty and law abiding government and wanted to maintain our end of the treaty.
5. DR should have never created the treaty. It was only created after an attempt to pacify relations with Haiti. But the entire river runs almost exclusively on our territory and only enters a tiny portion of the border with Haiti. Haitians will exploit this river and deplete it, as they've done to everything in Haiti.
@@wintyforever The tide is beginning to turn and many things are now happening in Haiti unknown to the majority of the world, where thousands of Haitians have been expelled and are also voluntarily leaving the D.R to return home where they belong. In fact, at that moment, although the D. R govt has re-opened the border, the people in Haiti have refused to re-open their side for serious reasons and Haitians no longer want to go to the D.R. There is a steady process of unification currently taking place amongst the Haitian people in Haiti and diaspora with only one goal in mind moving forward..
Dominicano unidos 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Malditos haitianos
GOOD 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Should’ve done so a long time ago!!!
Haiti sharing an island with racist hispanics😂
In a country whose foreign neighbor uses 33% of its hospitals and schools, a Dominican dies every day. at the hands of a Haitian. If you don't even live in both countries, don't give your opinion🤡
Racist Hispanics who built a university for them, let them rent houses without papers, get medical help for free; even pregnant woman can go to the DR to give birth for free (which is a HUGE problem). They can work on the streets selling their items, their kids can go to school without papers, and they are hired to work on houses by some families. It's fascinating to me how the country you hate so much is the one that has helped you the most through all these years, even after our differences. Some of you go to the USA and talk about the issues in Haiti and don't even visit to see what's really going on. It's not the responsibility of the DR to take care of Haiti... and we won't let them destroy our land as they did theirs. The deforestation on their side really shows how bad they are at protecting their resources.
Haitian growth their economy.
@@thedollpretty91 @thedollpretty91 I'm not Haitian,my family is from the Virgin Islands. I'm a Black American and i would repeat that again, racist Hispanics.. Yall are the worst in NYC Washington Heights, i dont mess with you unknown language speaking 🤡..
They are Latinos not Hispanic . You are racist yourself
Based.
how will this cause economic ruin for the DR?
It's cutting off water to both Dominican and Haiti farmers plus it's going to destroy the ecosystem.
No water for their crops
Big up Haiti
Violation of treaty and it’s a Haitian approach to a problem which means it will be used until depleted. A plan that doesnt consider the environmental cause of their action. Like everything else that’s ever been done in Haiti.
Because Haiti is DR number one trading partner. The trade brings millions of dollars to DR . Closing of the border will ruin DR economy.
No le podemos permitir
Sentar ese precedente
Por que vendrían
Más canales
Y otras cosas...🙃🙃🙃
Go Haïti. Your persecution will soon be over. You have been persecuted for decades because you freed yourself becoming the first black republic
They have been destroyed and exploited by their own people that still have them in slavery, starve them, don't give them healthcare or education so they can keep them dumb and hungry and use them as slaves and sell them to other countries to go be slaves or "refugees"
They’re their biggest persecutors. Let’s stop this victimhood mentality.
Haiti is not going anywhere, they are wild people who do not let any government be established. Now they want to dry up the only river in the region, they will be hungrier in the coming years when that river dries up.
DR will continue to have food and will continue to help his people in the end it is Haiti who will pay the consequences.
@@dcollymo ya es tiempo de cortar todo contacto con Haití. Los malo agradecido, se dejan que se coman entre ellos.
@@ninjawatcher6955these people who opinionate on what they don’t understand .
It doesn’t matter if DR has 4 or 5 or 11 canals none of out canals Divert the flow of the river and all our canals were approved by both GVTs why are these commentators so blind ?
keep digging! keep the border close. Haiti will be better of in the long run. Good riddance. Just dont let USA poison ur rice again. Long live Haiti
Haiti will continue to be a basket case. It has been for decades. But I'm sure the Dominicans want to keep the border closed, it's the Haitians who feel otherwise since they want to move to the DR.
These Dominicans have 10 canals and one dam built on the river. So if they think they can make us Haitians stop getting our share of the river, they can try and cross over to stop us.
We not going to cross over to stop your people hunger is on a week or two trust me your gang member not going to feed them
The river begins in Dominican side soon we will cut it off .
You guys don't know what you're saying. You have destroyed your country by behaving like this, the deforestation on your side is ridiculous... it really amazes me how you can be so blind about how wrong this is. The work done on the Dominican side is not diverting this river at all
Haitians should put things in order in their country because if we compare our two countries located on the same island, then the comparison will be very much not in favor of Haiti.Enemies should not be looked for in neighbors, but to make each Haitian better himself.
The same nonsense as you have happened with Russia and Ukraine, in the sense that Ukrainians began to look for their enemies in Russians, as a result, they are now getting the full.
Be smarter.
So you want more suffering for Haiti? You really think gorilla warfare will help you succeed in 2023? This isn’t the 1700’s/1800’s the DR has a military and you guys would get wiped out within a day. 😂😂😂
I wonder if they have enough food for the builders for couple of months since the Border is closed.
Good, shut it down forever.
The water not belong to santo Domingo in may they 2 country was signe a agreement for how they will share the water they use already 11.haiti none now the first on see what happen
Please do a better job at reporting your stories. Clearly, you guys didn’t take much time to investigate this story before you put up this BS. The project of this canal actually started in 1998. The sole purpose of the canal is to help regulate flooding and to irrigate water from marinaroux Plain. The Haitian support for this canal is not just because they’re happy that the Dominican republic government doesn’t like it. It’s very much needed and will help Haiti as a whole. Just like now, the Dominican republic government back, then also was opposed to it, and tried to bully and use militant tactics to discourage Haiti from building it. They also did a full investigation to find out if this canal will alter the flow of the river, or affect the ecosystem. The investigation found that it would not do either of those things. The crazy thing is the Dominican republic has 11 canals on this very same water system, and they found that several of them do affect the ecosystem and affect the flow of the river. Their canals affect the water downstream for the Haitian. They don’t care because it’s not affecting their own country. If they were actually worried about the environment or the ecosystems, they would fix their own canals that do pose a threat. What they are really worried/mad about is that Haitian farmers will not have to work as they’re cheap labor in Dominican Republic since they will now be able to farm on their own land in Haiti.
Facts!
Actually, we do want Haitian farmers to work on their own land. We are just overwhelmed with the overload of Haitian coming into the country. They are definitely hard working people. The Dominican Republic is not a rich country. We have our own issues. We just don't have the resources. It is overwhelming.
You're wrong, there are only 2 canals build in 1979 that only absorbed 1.5 cubic m/sec at the time the river had a 3 cubic m/sec. Due to the Haitian deforestation now that river only flows 1.5 cubic m/sec the 2 canals are obsolete. You already have your water in Barrage Hydroélectrique de Marion running which runs thru river Manon. The design of the canal will dry the river
Great Point, as ethnically Dominican I am against the separation, colorism, and racism that is propagated by the DR and I cant believe they put this story out without including all the facts. Thank you for educating us on what is going on.
@@RobertBOfficialWorksYou are a fkn dummy. These people are killing dominicans left and right and raping women and children and you are here talking about colorism and racism, you fkn fool!
Soon Haiti will be on top
lmaoooooooooo
HAÏTI SIEMPRE
GO HAITI.. BUILD WHAT YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR LAND.
With other countrie's protected resources since they depleted their own. How nice.