00:00Liston Diario presents the editorial from the director.
00:30This episode is another in a long chain of tragedies on a migration route where precarious wooden or fiberglass boats, lacking safety measures, frequently sink.
00:49Despite warnings and the tightening of U.S. immigration policies under Donald Trump's second term, these trips persist.
00:56An unavoidable question then arises, does the Dominican Navy have sufficient capacity to prevent these crossings?
01:03Possibly so, but traffickers demonstrate greater skill in evading surveillance.
01:08A similar pattern is observed on the Haitian border, where despite massive raids and repatriations, illegal trafficking persists.
01:17Behind this obstinacy lies a lucrative collusion.
01:20Authorities who succumb to bribery allow trafficking networks to operate, while migrants pay up to $7,000 for a deadly crossing.
01:29This shipwreck, like others before it, highlights a stark reality.
01:33Neither repressive policies nor risks deter those seeking to escape desperation.
01:38It is urgent to dismantle the corruption networks that exploit this tragedy, and offer legal alternatives before the sea continues to become a mass grave for hundreds of Dominicans.
01:48For Liston Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
01:52Liston Diario presented the editorial from the director.
