Page 1 of 2  How the US Militarized the Haiti-Dominican Republic
Border  As part of the Global War on Terror, the US has exported
its border patrol model to the Caribbean.  | Tue Nov. 19, 2013
2:40 PM GMT  The fence at the US-Mexican border.  This story
first appeared on the TomDispatch website.  It isn't exactly the
towering 20-foot wall that runs like a scar through significant
parts of the US-Mexican borderlands. Imagine instead the sort of
metal police barricades you see at protests. These are unevenly
lined up like so many crooked teeth on the Dominican Republic's
side of the river that acts as its border with Haiti. Like dazed
versions of US Border Patrol agents, the armed Dominican border
guards sit at their assigned posts, staring at the opposite
shore. There, on Haitian territory, children splash in the water
and women wash clothes on rocks.  One of those CESFRONT
(Specialized Border Security Corps) guards, carrying an assault
rifle, is walking six young Haitian men back to the main base in
Dajabon,