Possible cattle rustling

[NewsWhore]

The frontier between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is experiencing mounting tension as armed cattle farmers crossed into Haiti and took 16 cows and two horses that they are holding to exchange for the nearly two dozen cattle that were stolen and taken into Haiti just a few days before. The cattlemen were led by the head of the Dajabon Cattle Ranchers Association, Pedro Jose Suero. The spokesperson had few words of praise for the personnel manning the guard posts along the border, especially in view of the fact that the latest escapade took place just a few dozen meters from one such post in the area of Canongo and Sanche. As a result of the vigilante action, a group of armed Haitians kidnapped a backhoe operator and a dump truck driver. The two men were taken from their vehicles in the Masacre River in the Los Cocos de Sanchez area near Dajabon. Fortunately, the two men, Jose Sanchez and Carlos Taveras were saved by members of the Haitian police based in the border town of Quanaminthe (Juana Mendez). They were rescued while being beaten by their captors, and were taken to Fort Liberte where they were interviewed and later taken to Dajabon, where the Haitian consul handed them over to Dominican authorities. Even the hand-over was fraught with tension as one of the cattlemen tried to attack the Haitian diplomat.

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