Moreta said that if anyone had to explain what weapons were being used by gangs in this neighboring country, it would be Washington, because not only does it produce most of the weapons, but it also has international control over this market.
He called the fact that Santo Domingo became involved in arms smuggling “irresponsible” without taking into account that the Dominican people are victims of the terror coming from the other side of the border.
The President of the UDC expressed that the national government, in a letter sent through the Dominican Ambassador to the United States, Sonia Guzmán, highlighted the irresponsibility of those senators who called on the administration of Joe Biden to… to account for this matter.
He noted that the UDC is in complete solidarity with the people and authorities of the Dominican Republic, adding that these lawmakers know full well that North American foreign policy has brought chaos to Haiti.
The day before, the Dominican government rejected claims by US senators who said that country was acting as a bridge for the illegal arms trade to Port-au-Prince.
The answer is contained in a letter Guzmán sent to Democratic Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Bernard Sanders of Vermont; Raphael Warnock of Georgia; John Hickenlooper of Colorado; and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, to whom the national press had access.
Lawmakers included Santo Domingo in the arms transfer in a Dec. 19 message to President Biden and inquired about the position of the United States in finding solutions to the political, social and humanitarian crisis in Puerto Princesa.
They also asked the president about Washington's additional steps to “stop the flow of heavy weapons and ammunition into Haiti from the United States and the Dominican Republic.”
In the letter, Guzmán pointed out that the fight against arms trafficking in his country is a state obligation, since this scourge contributes to creating conditions of violence and instability that undermine peace, economic development and the harmonious coexistence of the people of everyone nation undermined.
This Tuesday, the vice president of the National Progressive Force (FNP), Pelegrín Castillo, claimed that the senators' complaint is part of a maneuver by power circles in the United States aimed at escalating the conflict in Haiti into a civil war and trying to that the Dominican Republic becomes a country of refuge.
If the Dominican people and their authorities resist, Castillo denounced, they would carry out a multilateral military intervention, followed by an unprecedented policy of repression.
He pointed out that these senators were well aware that these high-powered weapons with enormous quantities of ammunition were being purchased on their own territory to be sent to Haiti through various routes, and that they were also aware of the public fundraising campaigns for these purposes.
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