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07-30-2008, 04:00 PM
The Specialized Frontier Corps (Cesfront) has reinforced its patrols along the Dominican-Haitian border in response to increasingly violent protests in Haiti. The protests have to do with the rising costs of foodstuffs. Cape Haitian, Fort Liberte and Juana Mendez were affected by riots. The Cesfront posts in Dajabon, Montecristi, Manzanillo and Loma de Cabrera were reinforced by members of the 10th Battalion of the Army stationed in Mao. According to Colonel Atahualpa Valenzuela, the unit commander, no shots had been fired as of 10 o'clock last night. The protests originated due to a decrease in foreign assistance to Haiti, an increase in the cost of food and the ever-increasing price of petroleum products.
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