Carolina welcomes HOPE/HELP progress and reiterates that development is key to Haiti's stability

Santo Domingo.- Carolina Mejía welcomed the approval in the United States House of Representatives of the initiative to extend the HOPE/HELP programs that allow Haiti to export some products to that country with tariff benefits, considering that it is a measure consistent with the need to promote employment, production and institutionality in the Haitian nation. In a post on her X account, Carolina recalled that in July 2025 she warned, in an article published in Diario Libre, about the urgency of renewing these economic support mechanisms. “It is urgent that the economic programs that have given oxygen to the Haitian industry, such as HOPE and HELP, be renewed”, she expressed, underlining that these initiatives have been fundamental to sustain formal production and employment in Haiti. The general secretary of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) maintained that the Haitian crisis cannot be addressed through improvisation or with isolated solutions. "Haitian stability requires employment, production, and clear rules, not improvisation," she stated, while pointing out that the strengthening of the Haitian economy has a direct impact on regional stability and consequently on the security of the Dominican Republic.

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The also mayor of the National District called on the United States Senate to complete the legislative process and allow the definitive approval of the extension of HOPE/HELP, as well as to the business, labor and social sectors linked to these initiatives to actively support their continuity. “We will not allow responsibility to be confused with resignation. Helping does not mean giving up. Being neighbors does not mean being accomplices to inaction,” wrote the political leader in her opinion article last July, where she also assured that the Dominican Republic's migration policy does not respond to whim or improvisation. It is a legitimate right of any State to define who enters, who stays, and under what conditions.