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After the Dominican War of Independence ended, Haitian immigration to the Dominican Republic was focalized in the border area; this immigration was encouraged by the Haitian government and consisted of peasants who crossed the border to the Dominican Republic because of the land scarcity in Haiti; in 1874 the Haitian military occupied and de facto annexed La Miel valley and Rancho Mateo ...
Dominican Republic–Haiti relations are the diplomatic relations between the nations of Dominican Republic and Haiti. Relations have long been hostile due to substantial ethnic and cultural differences, historic conflicts, territorial disputes, and sharing the island of Hispaniola , part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region.
Anti-Haitian sentiment was strongly institutionalized during the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Border disputes under Trujillo culminated in the order of a military intervention and to massacre Haitians accused of practicing vodou or witchery, practices that were against the popular Roman Catholic beliefs in the Dominican Republic at the ...
Since the beginning of the year, the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, has expelled more than 30,000 Haitians to Haiti, according to data from the United ...
The Dominican Republic has long taken a hard-line stance with Haitian migrants, but harsh crackdowns have increased in recent years as Haiti's spiraling gang violence drives people to flee ...
The culture of Haiti is a creolized blend of ... "The American Intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic" in American Academy of Political and Social ...
As spiraling violence in Haiti puts healthcare out of reach for most, Haitian mothers are seeking care at hospitals in neighboring Dominican Republic despite government policies there scaling up ...
In 2015, a young Haitian man was lynched in Santiago. The beaten body of the man was found hanging from a tree in a Santiago park with his hands and feet tied with rope. The lynching sparked protests in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States over anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic. [20]