Thanks jmg23 for allowing all these ignorant people to understand the actual issue. "Ojo por ojo, diente por diente". If anyone killed any member of my family in that gruesome way, I would also want to act accordingly. This issue has NOTHING to do with black, white or brown. This has to do with the injustice and incompetence of a worker and his patron. We cannot base a decision on race, but rather on the issue as it happened. I grew up in Santo Domingo, in Los Minas of all places ,and attended high School at Fabio A Mota high School, where a lot of my classmates were Haitian. Haitians in Dominican Republic are just trying to escape from the injustices of their government. You cannot drive around DR without seeing a Haitian on the street. They are at every street signal begging for money. its just the way it is. They were the first country to become independent of foreign colonization in Latin America, after that they have had a string of delinquent presidents. We survived Trujillo and Balaguer, so if anything I'm rooting for my neighbor country to get their act together and begin to pick up the pieces where they left off. BTW cari de sako I have no black in me. Both sides of my family came from Spain in the 50's, and I'm still proud to say I'm ALL DOMINICAN!!!!!. We're all running for the same finish line, black, white purple, green or brown. You pick the color you racist bastard. Also, I just got accepted to Law School, my mother is a journalist, my father owned his own businesses, I have Architects, Civil Engineers, Doctors and of course Lawyers in my immediate family , so don't ever call my fellow Dominicans stupid,you imbecile. You probably are the one with the STD, go see a gynecologist en la plaza de la salud, maybe there's still hope for the herpes you have.

check this out . Dominican people will never like haitian. they always think they our superior, or they are white. wake up and smell the coffee , dominican are as black as haitian , know your history.. were you come from. they may be a bit luckier than us but we will still be smarter than them. what are the dominican women goes to haiti for? distributed STD.....

Mariela, with all due respect, I find it a little hard to believe that you ever lived in DR. I'm noticing a pattern with a lot of foreigners that are one-sided and only sympathetic to the Haitian cause, with immediately saying that blacks and Haitians face the treatment "from hell". I hate to say it like this, but that is a load of CRAP! If you ever lived in DR than you would be well aware that there are almost 2 MILLION Haitians in the DR and the majority are residing there ILLEGALLY! The Dominican Republic is the only other country other than Haiti with such a large population of Haitian nationals. And guess what? These illegal residents are able to get jobs, hospital care, and even attend our schools. There are also many legal Haitians and wealthy Haitians that are living very, very well in the DR that own their own businesses and even have their children attend private schools in DR at both the elementary and college level. Also, in the Dominican Republic, people of color occupy all types of positions ranging from very prominent positions in well-established companies, to television personalities, political positions (heck, DR's president is a man of color!), the list is endless. Just to mention a few there's our president, Leonel Fernandez, Johnny Ventura, Sergio Vargas, Jose Alberto "El Canario", baseball stars David Ortiz, Jose Reyes, the comedian Manolo Ozuna, "Boca E' Piano, and the comedian duo Miguel y Raymond, etc., these are all respected celebrities of COLOR! So please do not make it seem like people of color have to live in a state of xenophobia because that is FAR from the truth! Now, is there a dislike for Haitians in the DR by most Dominicans? YES, but it is NOT because they are black, it is because of our history and because at one point Haiti dominated the DR for 22 long years and ever since the DR fought for its independence the relationship between the two islands has not been a good one. Haitian patriots such as Dessalines and Boyer committed atrocities against the Dominican people, going as far as killing entire innocent Dominican families and destroying everything that they had and possessed. THAT'S why we don't like each other, it is not because Haitians are black. Please stop playing the race card! Could you provide examples of situations where blacks and Haitians were receiving this scary treatment that you mention, Mariela? Did you know that in the Bahamas Haitian children are not allowed to attend schools? Did you know that the Jamaican navy literally pushed a boat full of Haitian illegals back into the ocean when they saw them approaching their waters? Did you know that Cuba deports Haitian illegals? Actually, all these places, except DR, deports Haitians back to their country, as a matter of fact the US is deporting 30,000 illegal Haitians in a few more weeks! So, why the campaign against the DR? That's what I wanna know. ANYWAY, in answer to your question about having links provided with more info on the decapitation incident, here are a few links, that were available at the time you posted this article by the way: http://www.almomento.net/news/127/ARTICLE/32689/2009-05-05.html http://www.listindiario.com/APP/article.aspx?id=99867, http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/forum/living-in-the-dr/general-info/103...,

Man's inhumanity to man is a classic problem that unfortunately is still alive and well in all countries. As an American born Dominicana, this story makes me nauseous to say the least. I pray that Haiti and the Dominican Republic will be able to overcome their violent past for the sake of the future generations who must live and work together on this island that they share.