{"id":492247,"date":"2025-11-23T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/haitian-gangs-turn-the-international-highway-into-a-death-corridor-warns-deputy-tony-bengoa\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:41:41","slug":"haitian-gangs-turn-the-international-highway-into-a-death-corridor-warns-deputy-tony-bengoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/haitian-gangs-turn-the-international-highway-into-a-death-corridor-warns-deputy-tony-bengoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian gangs turn the international highway into a death corridor, warns deputy Tony Bengoa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawmaker urgently requests that the municipal district of R\u00edo Limpio be transferred to the province of Dajab\u00f3n.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\nSanto Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 The deputy for Dajab\u00f3n, Tony Bengoa, warned that Haitian gangs have turned large sections of the international highway into a \u201ccorridor of death\u201d, where Dominicans traveling to Comendador are exposed to kidnappings, assaults and murders, a situation he described as \u201cinhuman and unsustainable\u201d.\n\n

Bengoa<\/a> revealed that the residents of the municipal district of R\u00edo Limpio, now assigned to the province of El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a, have their lives in constant danger every time they try to carry out a legal or administrative procedure, which is why he supported \u2014as an urgent demand from the community\u2014 that said demarcation be transferred to Dajab\u00f3n, a province with which they maintain more direct geographical, economic, and social ties.<\/p>\n\nDuring an interview granted to journalist Elvis Lima on the program Fuera de R\u00e9cord, which is broadcast on Catorce TV, the legislator explained that to get to Comendador citizens must travel 108 kilometers and cross the dangerous international highway, “a route where gangs have become the de facto government on the Haitian side and, in some sections, even threaten from Dominican territory.”\n\n\n

You can also read: Anti-gang Task Force holds confrontations<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe legislator stated that the international highway \u2014which connects both territories, passing from the Haitian side to the Dominican and vice versa\u2014 currently operates as a zone of very high vulnerability. “No one should risk their life to obtain a birth certificate or an official document,” said Bengoa, recalling that access to that route even requires permission from the Dominican Army, which maintains strict control for reasons of national security.\n\nATTEMPT TO BUY ALL OF DAJABON.\n\nFurthermore, Bengoa confirmed that a Haitian businessman with high purchasing power sent emissaries to Dajab\u00f3n to buy up all the houses and properties for sale, with the aim of acquiring them en masse.\n\nThe plan, as he explained, was detected in time and thwarted, but it highlighted the need to establish stricter controls on the sale of real estate to foreign citizens in the border area, which is why he demanded that all sectors, including government agencies, support the preliminary bill submitted by Mayor Santiago River\u00f3n, which seeks to prohibit the sale of real estate to Haitian nationals, including houses, land, warehouses and other buildings. “We cannot allow unregulated money to penetrate our border without institutional control,” he proclaimed.\n\nRegarding the internal situation of the PRM, the legislator stated that as of today Eduardo Sanz Lovat\u00f3n (Yayo) remains the candidate to beat due to his closeness to the party base, and the successful management he has been carrying out at the head of the Customs Directorate.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawmaker urgently requests that the municipal district of R\u00edo Limpio be transferred to the province of Dajab\u00f3n. Santo Domingo.\u2013 The deputy for Dajab\u00f3n, Tony Bengoa, warned that Haitian gangs have turned large sections of the international highway into a \u201ccorridor of death\u201d, where Dominicans traveling to Comendador are exposed to kidnappings, assaults and murders, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-243t","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}