He environment minister and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic, Armando Paíno Henríquezexpressed his concern about the large-scale sand extraction in the Masacre River by Haitians.
“With respect to the situation of the Masacre River, it is a very worrying situation For us, it falls within the scope of international law because the crimes are being committed in Haiti,” said the minister.
Paino Henríquez said they will first try to start talks with Haitian authorities to update you on the unprecedented extraction of the Masacre River.
“But it is a situation that causes concern because although it is true that environmental crimes are being committed on the Haitian side, they are obviously affecting everything in communities like Dajabón and other areas, because it is affecting the riverbed,” said the official.
The Minister of the Environment highlighted that Haitians are carrying out illegal extraction and that given the concern about the issue, it must be addressed within international law.
“We just spoke with Roberto Alvarez the chancellor and we are going to make a report because we need to put the authorities on alert, even with the weaknesses that exist,” said the minister.
Paíno Henríquez spoke about the topic during a reforestation day in an area peripheral to the border wall in Dajabón.
For several years groups of Haitians with buckets They go down to the Masacre River and once they fill the container with sand, they pile it up on the shore, and then it is put into trucks, which remove it from the place for marketing throughout the northern part of Haiti.
The Massacre River It originates in the area of Loma de Cabrera, in the mountain known as Pico del Gallo, and the extraction of sand by the Haitians is carried out in the area of La Sal, the municipal capital, where the tributary in that area divides the Dominican Republic with Haiti by several meters.
