Haitian small merchants at the Ouanaminthe border crossing point were arrested and robbed of their goods, which they carried in bags, boxes and wheelbarrows, across the Massacre River bridge and wanted to return to Haiti to sell their products and support their family...

Goods that were trampled and destroyed by politicized compatriots, stationed on site to prevent Haitian merchants from passing through Dominican territory to buy products and bring them back to Haiti...

A deplorable situation (whatever the motivations) in a country where 1.8 million Haitians are on the verge of famine. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-39664-haiti-flash-18-million-haitians-on-the-verge-of-starvation.html , where 100,000 Haitian children risk dying of hunger https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-40351-haiti-insecurity-100-000-haitian-children-risk-dying-of-hunger.html and where small merchants, in debt, have lost everything in the name of an extremist nationalism which seems far from the Haitian reality which thinks by acting to send a message to the Dominicans...

A tragedy which arouses the concern of observers in the face of these actions committed by Haitians against their brothers and sisters merchants...

Acts criticized on both sides of the border, who consider them harmful for the populations of the two countries which only contribute to the increase in smuggling and the cost of living...

A video of the incident on social media shows tomatoes, peppers and pasta thrown to the ground and trampled on the Haitian side of the border area.

SL/ HaitiLibre