Farmers Choose Death over Abandoning Massacre River Canal

Haitians involved in the construction of the canal on the river are determined not to give up. They will see the project through to the end. Jean Brévil Weston, coordinator of the Farmers' Movement of the Maribaroux Plain, the organization behind the project, stated that the farmers will not yield to the pressure from Dominican authorities. "I don't think any entity will ask us to suspend the canal construction project. Our position is clear. The canal or death. We are ready to be buried in the canal," declared Mr. W