The Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Rubén Paulino Sem, accompanied by the commanders of the army Major General Estanislao Gonell Regalado; Navy, Vice-Admiral Emilio Recio Segura and the Air Force, Pilot General Richard Vásquez announced earlier this week that it was planned to end the year with 10 inter-institutional border complexes, to improve surveillance and control of the border with Haiti.

Buildings that are not always without reactions sometimes violent Haitians who do not see a good eye anything that can make it more difficult to cross the border, as was the case last March in the community of Carrizal. Elías Piña at the height of the pyramid 181 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27122-haiti-security-the-dominicans-explain-the-construction-work-at-the-border.html

Paulino Sem said that 5 positions since 2017 had already been inaugurated and that the goal hhttps://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-27690-icihaiti-dr-the-dominicans-will-build-a-5th-border-base.html was to reach 10 by the end of 2019, stating that the work of stations Estero Hondo and Vicente Noble had already begun "The security of the border is the main mission of our armed forces [...] We improve only the controls at the land borders, but also the maritime and aerial controls of our spaces. And that's why the construction of these multi-agency positions has increased."

Recall that these inter-agency buildings built jointly with the Ministry of Defense, aims to centralize border surveillance controls and include : the Directorate General of Migration, the Ministry of Agriculture, Health, customs services , the National Directorate of Investigations and intelligence agencies fighting against smuggling and human trafficking at the border.

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https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-27690-icihaiti-dr-the-dominicans-will-build-a-5th-border-base.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27225-haiti-dr-the-government-confirms-that-the-wall-of-the-dominicans-respects-the-haitian-territory.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27194-haiti-flash-violent-confrontation-at-the-border-between-haitians-and-dominican-soldiers.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27122-haiti-security-the-dominicans-explain-the-construction-work-at-the-border.html

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