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Santo Domingo.- The elected president of Chile, the far-rightist José Antonio Kast, will visit this Sunday, along with the president of Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, the wall that the Caribbean country is building along its border with Haiti with the aim of controlling the traffic of migrants, drugs and weapons, as reported this Friday.
Information sent by the Presidency to the media details that the Dominican Minister of Defense, Lieutenant General Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre, will make a presentation in Dajabón (Dominican northwest) to Abinader and Kast "on the progress of the perimeter fence in the border area".You may be interested in: José Valenzuela, former mayor and former consul in Haiti, passes away
Also, the Dominican chancellor, Roberto Álvarez, and other international guests will be present. The Presidency, however, has not offered further details on Kast's agenda in the Dominican Republic, a country he included in a tour of several nations, including El Salvador and Panama, where he will participate on Wednesday in the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean. The construction of the fence or border wall began on February 20, 2021 in the province of Dajabón and the first section was inaugurated in October 2023. President Abinader has defended this initiative under the argument that it will benefit both countries because it "will allow for a much more efficient control of bilateral trade, regulate migratory flows to thus combat the mafias that traffic in people, confront drug trafficking, the illegal sale of weapons and protect ranchers and agricultural producers from the theft of their livestock and crops". Furthermore, with this wall, he affirms, the different forms of organized crime "that have wanted to use the border as a base" between the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola and a 400-kilometer border will be combated. This is one of the measures adopted by Abinader to address irregular Haitian migration since he first came to the Presidency in August 2020. Precisely the president-elect of Chile has promised a firm hand with migration, in the same vein as the United States, and mass expulsions of migrants. Tension with the Haitian population has been increasing since October 2024, when the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, ordered a policy of mass deportations of migrants in an irregular situation. Since then, around 10,000 Haitian migrants are deported per week despite calls from international organizations not to carry out returns to a country where in the first half of 2025 more than 4,000 people died due to the violence of armed gangs. In 2025, Dominican authorities deported 379,553 Haitians, a record number in the country.
