Misquoted Foundation Juan Bosch rejects Quotation / Illegal Immigration again in the Headlines
In more or less regular intervals, the issue of illegal immigration from neighboring Haiti is coming to the boil in the Dominican Republic. The last time it was during the 2015 election campaign, when the rightwing extremist party FNP tried to win voters with this topic. With little success. But the issue regularly poisons the relations between the two countries, as well as between the immigrants and the locals. The last campaign of the Right, however, had
the unwanted consequence that the Dominican government issued a law which allowed the children of Haitians born here to be naturalized, and that foreigners who are living here for longer without legal documents could apply for a “residencia” at low costs. This opportunity was used by hundreds of thousands of Haitians. However, many cases have still not been completed, especially due to the slowness of the Haitian authorities to issue the documents required. To the detriment of their own citizens, who are increasingly controlled and deported recently. For several weeks now, there has been an increase in coverage of a “mass influx” of illegal Haitians who have supplanted the headlines about the Odebrecht and Tucanos corruption cases. With the wellknown unappetizing commentaries of the readers' letters in the print and social media, which again put the Dominican Republic in no good light internationally.
Now, even the Foundation Juan Bosch reacted to a publication of an alleged quotation of Juan Bosch without an indication of source, in which he is supposedly warning against a peaceful invasion of the Haitians, who are in the most primitive stage of mankind, which can be seen in their savage behavior and the destruction of their own country. Juan Bosch, who died in 2001, was probably the greatest thinker in Dominican history, he was a writer, historian and politician, who led the opposition to dictator Trujillo for 25 years. He was elected president of the Dominican Republic on the 1st of November 1962, but overthrown only six months later by the military. Juan Bosch founded both today's ruling parties, PLD and PRD, and was a bitter opponent of corruption. The Dominican nationalists like to quote him, because after an incident in the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince, he warned to take military steps against Haiti to protect the embassy of his country. The foundation Juan Bosch now announced that the quotation of Bosch, which is reproduced by the nationalists, is false. After reviewing all his publications on Haiti, it is absolutely clear that he has neither said nor written this quotation at any time. On the contrary. As a supporter of a leftist ideology, he has always shown great understanding for the poor of both countries.