NewsWhore
05-16-2007, 06:10 PM
Listin Diario columnist Orlando Gil points out that a major propaganda effort is under way to promote new benefits for illegal Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic. "Not even the civil rights situation in the US, or apartheid in South Africa, nor what happened in Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia, produced such a major showing of films as extraordinary as what has been secured for the Haitians who live in Dominican territory," he writes. Films will be shown in several French cities, presenting the case of poverty of Haitians living in the DR. Gil points out that the film festival will open in Marseille, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Nantes and Rennes, as well as in other cities. The films were produced by Brian McKenna of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher of Extremis TV and Macumba International. Also being screened are films produced by Hispanic TV's Univision. Pierre Ruquoy and Christopher Hartley, two priests who the Dominican Catholic Church asked to leave the country will also be taking part. Ruquoy left shortly after it was revealed that he personally had adopted Haitian children in order to illegally secure Dominican nationality for them. Hartley, who has ties to the Spanish nobility, was asked to leave by the Dominican Catholic Church due to irregularities in his work in defense of Haitian migrants. Upon leaving the country, Belgian priest Ruquoy did not take his "children" with him.
Gil points out these have not been low budget films. Several of the films that focus on the lives of the Haitians in the DR have won major film awards. Gil mentions that Hartley's film "The Price of Sugar" is narrated by Paul Newman.
None of the films focus on the plight of Haitians in Haiti, the reason why Haitians migrate the DR. Gil mentions that the campaign against the Dominican Republic, that many speculate seeks to force the country to legalize the status of the illegal Haitians living in the DR, is heavily funded. Gil wonders: "How come Haiti itself does not garner the solidarity as a nation that the Haitian migrants to the DR have secured? There are still people who have not awakened and noticed that this is a well-orchestrated conspiracy, and while occasional hysteria does not resolve matters, when protests take place here, meanwhile the lies are spread abroad...."
The Dominican government over decades has adopted a laissez-faire policy towards illegal migration from Haiti, with the nation increasingly taking on a greater share of the social burden of the neighboring country's impoverished population.
See: http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=13105
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Gil points out these have not been low budget films. Several of the films that focus on the lives of the Haitians in the DR have won major film awards. Gil mentions that Hartley's film "The Price of Sugar" is narrated by Paul Newman.
None of the films focus on the plight of Haitians in Haiti, the reason why Haitians migrate the DR. Gil mentions that the campaign against the Dominican Republic, that many speculate seeks to force the country to legalize the status of the illegal Haitians living in the DR, is heavily funded. Gil wonders: "How come Haiti itself does not garner the solidarity as a nation that the Haitian migrants to the DR have secured? There are still people who have not awakened and noticed that this is a well-orchestrated conspiracy, and while occasional hysteria does not resolve matters, when protests take place here, meanwhile the lies are spread abroad...."
The Dominican government over decades has adopted a laissez-faire policy towards illegal migration from Haiti, with the nation increasingly taking on a greater share of the social burden of the neighboring country's impoverished population.
See: http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=13105
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)