Lawmaker urgently requests that the municipal district of Río Limpio be transferred to the province of Dajabón.
Santo Domingo.– The deputy for Dajabón, Tony Bengoa, warned that Haitian gangs have turned large sections of the international highway into a “corridor of death”, where Dominicans traveling to Comendador are exposed to kidnappings, assaults and murders, a situation he described as “inhuman and unsustainable”.
Bengoa revealed that the residents of the municipal district of Río Limpio, now assigned to the province of Elías Piña, have their lives in constant danger every time they try to carry out a legal or administrative procedure, which is why he supported —as an urgent demand from the community— that said demarcation be transferred to Dajabón, a province with which they maintain more direct geographical, economic, and social ties.
During an interview granted to journalist Elvis Lima on the program Fuera de Récord, which is broadcast on Catorce TV, the legislator explained that to get to Comendador citizens must travel 108 kilometers and cross the dangerous international highway, "a route where gangs have become the de facto government on the Haitian side and, in some sections, even threaten from Dominican territory."
The legislator stated that the international highway —which connects both territories, passing from the Haitian side to the Dominican and vice versa— currently operates as a zone of very high vulnerability. "No one should risk their life to obtain a birth certificate or an official document," said Bengoa, recalling that access to that route even requires permission from the Dominican Army, which maintains strict control for reasons of national security.
ATTEMPT TO BUY ALL OF DAJABON.
Furthermore, Bengoa confirmed that a Haitian businessman with high purchasing power sent emissaries to Dajabón to buy up all the houses and properties for sale, with the aim of acquiring them en masse.
The plan, as he explained, was detected in time and thwarted, but it highlighted the need to establish stricter controls on the sale of real estate to foreign citizens in the border area, which is why he demanded that all sectors, including government agencies, support the preliminary bill submitted by Mayor Santiago Riverón, which seeks to prohibit the sale of real estate to Haitian nationals, including houses, land, warehouses and other buildings. "We cannot allow unregulated money to penetrate our border without institutional control," he proclaimed.
Regarding the internal situation of the PRM, the legislator stated that as of today Eduardo Sanz Lovatón (Yayo) remains the candidate to beat due to his closeness to the party base, and the successful management he has been carrying out at the head of the Customs Directorate.
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