The future of Haiti

Times have changed as we all know. Let’s talk about history and how useless could be any attempt of fusion between Haiti and Dominican Republic, and how important is to face some facts and stop suggestions of this nature. Haiti did dominate DR for about 22 years in the early 1800’s; 22 years were not enough to merge even though there was no frontier. The problem is not like in West and East Germany “structural, political or sovereignty”. The cultural barrier that covers the Hispaniola territory is bigger than the Great Wall of China.

So the pressure starts rising from the international community and it is pointing the index finger at Dominican Republic which can not even sustain its own economy, to merge!

I am guessing that the developed countries from around the world just want to see 2 economically dead countries becoming 1. That is very smart indeed; in this case, the little help that is being sent to both countries from different sources should go to just one and the contributions are converted to just 1 country instead of 2.

I have a couple of ideas that might be very useful to all experts that think like Daniel Rodriguez (co-founder of the Alliance for Economic Stability and an adjunct professor of International Business at Mercy College in New York) in his publication called: Haiti Should Merge With the Dominican Republic (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/25/daniel-rodriguez-haiti-dominican-republic-merge/ )

The United States of America is a nation that is more than an expert when it comes to take over other countries; they have done it plenty of times(from http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/interventions.html):

1. Argentina	1890
2. Chile	1891
3. Haiti	1891
4. Nicaragua	1894
5. Panama	1895
6. Nicaragua	1896
7. Cuba	1898-
8. Puerto Rico	1898-
9. Nicaragua	1898
10. Nicaragua	1899
11. Honduras	1903
12. Dominican Republic	1903-04
13. Cuba	1906-09
14. Nicaragua	1907
15. Honduras	1907
16. Panama	1908
17. Nicaragua	1910
18. Honduras	1911
19. Cuba	1912
20. Panama	1912
21. Honduras	1912
22. Nicaragua	1912-33
23. Mexico	1913
24. Dominican Republic	1914
25. Mexico	1914-18
26. Haiti	1914-34
27. Dominican Republic	1916-24
28. Cuba	1917-33
29. Panama	1918-20
30. Honduras	1919
31. Guatemala	1920
32. Costa Rica	1921
33. Panama	1921
34. Honduras	1924-25
35. Panama	1925
36. El Salvador	1932
37. Uruguay	1947
38. Puerto Rico	1950
39. Guatemala	1954-?
40. Panama	1958
41. Cuba	1961
42. Cuba	1962
43. Panama	1964
44. Dominican Republic	1965-66
45. Guatemala	1966-67
46. Chile	1973
47. El Salvador	1981-92
48. Nicaragua	1981-90
49. Honduras	1982-90
50. Grenada	1983-84
51. Bolivia	1987
52. Panama	1989
53. Haiti	1994-95
54. Venezuela	2002
55. Haiti	2004-

These and many more in the Middle East and the rest of the world. Experts should stop acting like they ignore the reality and start using a little bit more of common sense. USA is a very strong country when it comes to Economy and Military interventions, now, for the first time in history they should pay Karma a little bit of respect and start acting like a real good neighbor as President Franklin Roosevelt proposed back in 1933. Again, is not a matter of a shared territory that makes Dominican Republic responsible for Haiti’s disaster, this is a humanitarian problem where the entire human race should join forces and help. Haiti fought through the years to become a free country just as every other country did, and not just because of a natural disaster that happened in January 2010 everything has to change. Haiti is bigger than any disaster; every country is bigger than any possible disaster as long as one citizen survives.

I would like to end this by simply saying that if the whole world is concerned about our beloved Haiti; as one World we all should help them to get back on track. Dominican Republic is not the answer to this problem.

DC