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00:00As you know, both the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army visit
00:22the border area with the aim of disarming the troops, to cross the border and to ensure
00:29that everything moves normally on the border line.
00:33Today is no exception, we have made a tour that has started in Pedernales and that ends
00:39in Dajabón.
00:41Commander, we saw that you mentioned that due to the situation of the neighboring country
00:48of Haiti, the vigilance had been strengthened and that the troops from here, with the readiness,
00:57are all maintaining this path.
01:00Yes, look, you know that the strengthening of the border is permanent.
01:09We do not rest, every time we come to the border, to monitor the conditions in which
01:14they are, to observe the conditions in which the positions are, the border crossings,
01:19to see the need that the soldiers have, to see if there is any event that deserves special
01:25attention, if there is any fragility.
01:27It is a constant.
01:29The border, as I have said on other occasions, the border is calm.
01:36Logically, you know that we have a country that has a very particular security situation.
01:42I would say that in the context of the situation of insecurity that the neighboring country
01:47is experiencing, to the armed forces of the Dominican Republic, what we have to do is
01:51congratulate them, because at this moment there has been no incident that the Dominicans
01:57have to regret.
01:59Obviously, at all borders, at all borders, at some point, an event occurs.
02:05That is typical of the borders.
02:09That is typical of the borders.
02:11It is impossible that at a border no event occurs.
02:15There is a dynamic, and above all, taking into account the situation of our neighboring
02:21country.
02:29Is there any type of strategy or reinforcement?
02:32If you mean robberies.
02:33Robbery of cattle.
02:34Yes, look, that is a recurring theme here, and in the same way that you have seen
02:39complaints that they have stolen cattle.
02:42For example, that last of the miches was recovered by members of the army.
02:46Remember.
02:47It is a constant.
02:48I would not like to get into the particularity of the way that the cattle ranchers here
02:53manage that scenario, but it is a constant.
02:56What you can have is the certainty, the certainty that we are always aware of the
03:01situation at the border, and that just as there have been complaints that there have been
03:07cattle thefts, there have also been many cattle ranchers and many people who have
03:12thanked the army for having recovered their cattle.
03:15How many Haitians have been arrested in the Dominican territory?
03:18Well, I do not know, and I can talk to the authorities about that.
03:21I do not know the first gang member recognized by Haitian authorities who has been arrested
03:27in the Dominican territory.
03:28I do not know him.
03:29Now, often, often, many times, some authorities, and I do not want to go into details,
03:37are used to saying that they have arrested a gang member, that they have arrested ...
03:42But I do not know the first gang member recognized by Haitian authorities who has
03:46been arrested in the Dominican territory.
03:49Comandante, the support of the public military to the army in terms of what you have to read
03:53in the chapter, I do not know what you have read.
03:57An absolute support, an absolute support.
04:00And you will have witnessed the number of people who have been presented to the public
04:06ministry for undocumented trafficking.
04:08We have already exceeded 200.
04:10We must have 220 or 130 people arrested and presented to the public ministry.
04:16And we have had a total support from the public ministry.
04:19We are working with migration and with other authorities in the management of the issues
04:24that have to do with irregular migration to the Dominican territory.
04:28But I think you have witnessed that there has been a constant ... a constant ...
04:38action, a constant action in that sense.
04:41In conjunction with migration and in conjunction with all the security mechanisms
04:45bet on the borderline.
04:47Understand the CFRON, understand the DNI, J2.
04:50All the bodies that have participation in what are the border issues are involved
04:56in that fight.
04:57Do you remember?
05:01Which are arrested?
05:04Well.
05:06Generalmente y tristemente son dominicanos los que se dedican al tráfico de indocumentados.
05:12Ha habido casos de nacionales haitianos también, pero tristemente son ciudadanos dominicanos
05:17los que se dedican a esa práctica en su mayoría.