Needed but unwanted

I liked how the book bridged the past to the present. I think about how two words come to mind for me, and those are intractable conflict, and that being with many Dominicans prejudice, ignorant, and racist views towards Haitians.

 Regarding the human rights and the crisis of 1991, I am struck by the naiveté  (although I shouldn’t be) by the United States allowing the Dominican Republic to convince us that they would try to “improve conditions for cane cutters and to halt some of the most blatant abuses.”(74) Those abuses that had and have been going on for quite some time.  Who did we think was going to oversee this?  If it had not been for other voices and some of those voices coming from the Dominicans own church, speaking out for the migrant sugar cane cutters, we might never have gotten the full picture of what was still happening with the continued abuses. At the same time the Dominican Republic was still denying that abuses were going on.  The Dominican Republic went a step further and expelled an estimated 35,000 Haitians, not counting people who left on their own accord.  This explosion was indiscriminate, it mattered little whether Haitians were born there or not.  It never ceases to amaze me how little we have moved forward with the treatment of our fellow human beings. How long will The Dominican Republic be operating in this antiquated system?