Exsecretario José Miguel Soto Jiménez urge a investigar tráfico de armas hacia Haití
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00:00Well, let me tell you that it is Agua del Molino.
00:06This is not the first time that it happens.
00:09The first time that it happens is the contemporaneity.
00:12If you go back to the recent past, very recent,
00:16you are going to see that several weapons have been discovered
00:20in the noble port of Santo Domingo.
00:23They have been discovered in a random way,
00:26which speaks very well of the controls there,
00:28but then there was another appearance of arms smuggling in Sancho Sábado,
00:34and then there was another in Jimaní,
00:37and then there was another on purpose in Haitian territory,
00:41but very close to the Dominican border.
00:44It is important that this be clarified.
00:46You have said that it has always been proven that,
00:49at least in the Dominican Republic,
00:51in principle, it was North American de facto.
00:54Although you are now in the Haitian bands,
00:57you are going to find weapons also like the AK-47.
01:01Before they were pointed weapons, light pointed weapons,
01:05North American.
01:06So there is practically a permanent flow that there is.
01:12But let me say something else,
01:14that in the recent past it was also the other way around.
01:17When the Haitian army disarmed,
01:20the weapons came to the Dominican Republic in a clandestine way from Haiti.
01:25Now, part of the conflict, of this conflict,
01:29then we see the following.
01:31First, the weapon is of North American origin.
01:34In principle, like this, in all weapons.
01:37It has been said that it comes from Miami, Florida.
01:41And then the other constant is also that this weapon,
01:47also proven, is the one that uses,
01:51in a public way, in quotation marks, the Haitian bands.
01:54They continue to arm here.
01:57The interesting thing is to know,
01:59the point of investigation, who finances it?
02:01There.
02:02Who finances it?
02:03There.
02:04Because as it happens in the opposite direction,
02:07it happens the same as with drugs, right?
02:09The drug crosses here.
02:11In many cases from Haiti.
02:13Not only from Haiti.
02:15And now it is going to the opposite with the armament,
02:18which comes from the United States,
02:21by the origin of the armament that is in the photograph,
02:23which is taken out to the banks.
02:25What does it do to prevent the country from being a bridge?
02:27Well, precisely, the authorities put special interest,
02:31not to the armed forces, without any,
02:34so that this does not happen.
02:36But you also have to know that there is no impunity,
02:39because that has happened.
02:41I'm talking about the last six years,
02:42that has happened continuously.
02:44And what is the proof of that disposition,
02:46of the armed forces?
02:48And the intelligence agencies that have been discovered.
02:51The bad things that have not been discovered.