Dominican Republic

After years of struggle, the Dominican community is becoming a pivotal player in New York City politics. I'd like to

They arrive from the airport every Wednesday on a government provided bus to the same central downtown destination. Tonight the

By the early morning of May 17, 1978, it had become clear that the Revolutionary Dominican Party (PRD)-populist, social-democratic and

Two international human rights bodies—the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the Inter-American Human Rights Court—are examining charges that the Dominican

Dominican historian Roberto Cassd, has observed Juan Bosch for most of the latter's checkered career. In this excerpt from a

U.S. Role in Dominican Republic spurs NACLA founding By Fred Rosen In April 1965, President Lyndon Johnson sent some 22,000

DOMINICAN PRESIDENT JOA- quin Balaguer has, surely, never been in any serious danger of being mistaken for a man of

When Joaquin Balaguer was born on September 1, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, the Marines were occupying

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republic—who number at

In July, Dominicans celebrated guilty verdicts handed down against four confessed murderers of Orlando Martínez, a young journalist killed in

Having an incumbent president pass on the sash of office to his successor is still a rare occur- rence in