In a statement read during a press conference, the signing groups considered that the presence here of the head of US diplomacy is an act of interference that seeks to turn the Dominican Republic into a base of aggression against sister nations.
They noted that the government of President Donald Trump seeks to entrench ‘the vision of Latin America as the backyard of the United States.’
“We denounce Washington’s attempt at taking over the Panama Canal and its inhumane immigration policy, by deporting people without legal guarantees, as it already does in the illegal Guantanamo naval base” that it keeps in Cuba against the will of its people.
They also stated that it pressures governments such as that of El Salvador ‘to imprison immigrants in subhumane conditions.’
We also repudiate the imposition on the Dominican president to break relations with China, subordinating national interests to the dictates of the White House, group spokeswoman Xiomara Peralta said when reading the document.
The organizations, including Movimiento Caamañista, Fuerza de la Revolucion, Movimiento Popular Dominicano, Movimiento de Izquierda Unida and Partido Comunista del Trabajo demanded respect for national sovereignty, enshrined in Article 3 of the Constitution.
They also demanded compliance with international law, which prohibits all forms of interventionism, condemned the inhumane practices against Dominicans abroad and the repression against immigrants, ‘a reflection of the same brutality exercised by the Dominican Government against Haitian immigrants,’ they pointed out.
The organizations called on the Dominican people “to remain firm in the defense of their sovereignty, independence and dignity, as well as to demand the implementation of integrationist policies with sister nations of CELAC and ALBA-TCP.”
They considered that these alliances promote Latin America and the Caribbean as a region of peace, based on respect for sovereignty and the common welfare of the peoples.
“We demand that the United States put an end to the arms trafficking that feeds paramilitary groups in Haiti and respect the sovereignty of that neighboring nation, pointed out the Homeland for All Party, Agenda Solidarity, Boschist Force and Afro-Dominican Action.”
The organizations demanded the immediate removal of Cuba from the arbitrary US list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, while denouncing the criminal economic blockade imposed on that nation, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
They described this economic blockade as ‘a policy of asphyxiation, a crime against humanity designed to crush entire peoples for the benefit of US interests.’
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