Marcha Patriótica: International community’s indifference to Haiti crisis deplored

Saturday in San Pedro de Macoris, the president of the Instituto Duartiano, Wilson Gómez, deplored the indifference of the international community to the extremely serious and dangerous situation in Haiti, which shows a high degree of hostility against the nation and the Dominican people.

Speaking this Saturday before hundreds of Petromacorisanos and residents of the Eastern region who joined the DR-San Pedro de Macoris Patriotic March, Gomez Ramirez said that it is necessary that the government provides a strong impetus to the construction of the border wall, clearing the mystery that is expressed in an inexplicable slowness and lack of information, despite the worsening of the situation in the neighboring country.

He added that “the international community, meaning the United Nations (UN), the Organization of American States (OAS), the great nations most committed to Haiti such as the United States, France and Canada, are not interested in recognizing that we are not to blame for the misfortune of the Haitian people and, above all, that their problems cannot be solved at the expense of the Dominican Republic.”

He pointed out that the citizens continue to make these patriotic demonstrations because they understand that it is necessary for Haiti to achieve its institutional uprising with the help of the Haitian people as active agents of its development.

However, he said, it needs to be helped by the leaders of the international and hemispheric community, from whom an urgent effort of great authenticity, consistency, and sincerity, capable of rescuing and rebuilding Haiti in Haiti, is required now as never before.

The president of the Duartian Institute stressed that an international collaboration limited to providing military forces would not be enough to restrict the state of violence prevailing in Haiti, but it is also necessary to work on its civil registry so that its subjects obtain a reliable identity and electoral document, which will allow democratic processes and the emergence of legitimate and reliable authorities, capable of sponsoring and establishing the desired social peace in that nation.

Gómez Ramírez indicated in his speech, pronounced before a large crowd that, after marching, concentrated in the Duarte Park of the Sultana del Este, that “the National Congress must abide by article 10, numeral 2, of the Supreme Law and comply with the regime of acquisition and transfer of the real estate property in the border zone that privileges the acquisition of property of the Dominicans and the national interest”.

The route of the Patriotic March RD-SPM
The DR-San Pedro de Macoris Patriotic March started its route from the square of the San Pedro Apostle Cathedral, located on Anacaona Moscoso Street, and went along Sanchez, Duarte, Padre Lucciani, 27 de Febrero Avenue, Luis Amiama, Independencia and culminated at the Duarte Park, on Independencia Avenue, in this city.

Participating entities and personalities
Raymundo Ortiz Díaz, mayor of San Pedro de Macorís; Aracelis Villanueva, governor and commissions of the Duarte centers and branches of that city, San José de los Llanos, Guayacanes, Ramón Santana, Hato Mayor, La Romana, El Seibo, Azua, Barahona, and New York participated in the activity.

Also, the civil society movements Centro de Pensamiento y Acción del Proyecto Nacional (ProNación), Polo Soberano, Duartianos Unidos, República Dominicana por lo Alto, Movimiento Tricolor, Somos La Resistencia RD, Patria Libre, Mesa de Coordinación Nacionalista, Red de Abogados Católicos, Movimiento Única Vía, Proyecto de Desarrollo Estratégico de Santo Domingo Este, Fundación RD Inclusiva, Movimiento Cívico Latidos por la Patria and Acción Cristiana RD.

The political parties that joined the DR Patriotic March were the Permanent Forum of Political Parties, the Fifth Republic Party, the Civic Renewal Party, the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), and the Quisqueyano Christian Democratic Party (PQDC), among others.