LatinNews Daily - 23 March 2018

Haiti-Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic (DR)’s attorney general, Jean Alain Rodríguez, has formally requested the extradition of two Haitian nationals, brothers Luis Bom and Francisco Bom, suspected of the murder of a Dominican couple, Julio Reyes Pérez Matos and Neyda Miladis Urbáez Féliz, in February in the DR's border province of Pedernales. Luis Bom was detained in Haiti but Francisco has yet to be arrested. Rodríguez said that the DR government had completed the necessary legal proceedings for the brothers to be extradited to the DR to face justice. While Haiti’s foreign minister, Antonio Rodrigue, told reporters last week that there is no extradition treaty in place with the DR, Rodríguez invoked an extradition agreement included in the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, to which both the DR and Haiti are signatories. The double murder has served as the latest strain on bilateral relations which have been tense since 2015 when the DR formally closed its foreign national regularisation programme and began deporting back to Haiti some of the thousands of irregular Haitian migrants living in the DR.

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