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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Dominican Republic</title>
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		<title>Dominican Lawyer, Guillermo Moreno García, Announces his run for the Presidency: He Could be a way out of his Country’s Traditionally Sordid Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Guillermo Moreno García, who served as Attorney General of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 1997, also was a presidential candidate for the Movement for Independence, Unity and Change (Movimiento Independencia, Unidad y Cambio &#8211; MIUCA) during the country’s 2008 elections. After his defeat in those elections, Moreno García created his own leftist party, Alianza País, and will run for the presidency again in the upcoming 2012 elections. His supporters hope that his various accomplishments will cast his candidacy in a positive light and raise his popularity.   Perhaps one of Moreno García’s most noticeable achievements was his involvement in the Orlando Martínez case. A famed Dominican journalist, Orlando Martínez Howley was killed on March 17, 1975 during the rule of former President Joaquín Balaguer (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996). This president&#8217;s second term became known as the &#8220;12 years of Balaguer,&#8221; a very dark era in Dominican history due to Balaguer’s totalitarian inclinations. Orland Martínez Howley was just one of hundreds of young people killed or “disappeared” during this period. Although General Joaquín Pou Castro participated in this violent crime against Martínez, neither he nor the other involved perpetrators were persecuted at the time. In fact, justice began to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Economy Blinded by the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a Small World After All As globalization has carried with it a greater degree of potential for economic integration among different nations, the tiny English-speaking Caribbean states are fighting for their place in an ever-shrinking world. Aside from the potential boon associated with globalization, the spread of free trade and increased competition between transnational corporations could pose another considerable threat to vulnerable Caribbean nations that are often ill-equipped to retaliate against more economically formidable societies. As far back as the eighteenth century, national economies experienced the initial phases of industrial capitalism. During this era imperial powers, such as England and Spain, exploited the colonies, forcing them to export raw materials to the mother-countries for processing, which prevented the Caribbean islands from achieving a proper degree of progress. For instance, the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis historically had come to depend heavily upon on sugar exports and had the potential to complete the entire production process from inception to launch. However, raw sugar was then required to be shipped to England for refinement, after which the Saint Kitts and Nevis government had to pay to import granulated sugar back to their island.[1] In the 1960s, after centuries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Caribbean Policy Expands to Renewable Energy Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: U.S. Dept. of State Official Blog On June 22, Secretary Clinton attended the High-Level Caribbean-U.S. Conference to discuss progress in the areas of regional security and renewable energy. She reported a funding increase from USD 44 million to USD 77 million in the fiscal year 2011 for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), a program which consists of counter-trafficking and maritime security programs. Adding to the security funding, Secretary Clinton also announced the conferral of grant funding for pilot projects in renewable energy. Generally speaking, Caribbean nations struggle economically from high levels of debt, natural disasters, and an exodus of skilled workers to more developed countries. Their small sizes and  limited tax base generate a constant state of fiscal instability. As an extreme example, St. Kitts and Nevis’debt is 170 percent of their GDP.  In its support of the region, the U.S. State Department focuses broadly on developing institutional reform, youth programs, and human rights support. However, as the majority of U.S. support goes to defense and security spending, these broad and commendable goals are not reflected in the actual financial assistance. The Caribbean is a strategically located shipping route, making it critical in both formal international trade and illicit narco-trafficking. To defend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Haiti to the DR &amp; Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Haiti to the Dominican Republic and Back: Disjunctive Pattern of Immigration on Hispaniola in the Aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake On the island of Hispaniola, Haiti’s next-door neighbor is the much more prosperous Dominican Republic (D.R.).  Historically, many Haitians have found better job opportunities and higher standards of living, and established families on the Dominican side of the island. The process got a big boost after even more Haitians poured into the D.R. as refugees during the aftermath of the tragic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010.  The earthquake that killed over 200,000 people and injured hundreds of thousands more has left nearly 1.6 million Haitians homeless and destroyed much of the nation’s basic infrastructure.  A large portion of the Haitian population still lives in tents a year and half after the earthquake, struggling to survive on limited public services and medical aid while battling a cholera epidemic.  In spite of all this misery, Haiti now faces its greatest challenge yet:  the repatriation of its 1.2 million displaced citizens.[i] This new obstacle has complicated the issues of citizenship and human rights, leaving Haiti’s displaced population to an uncertain fate in which immigration, especially to the neighboring D.R., appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dominican Republic and Haiti After the Earthquake: Nervous Ties and Fractious Tensions Persist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the earthquake that took the lives of more than 200,000 Haitians and left about 1.5 million homeless. The natural disaster helped revive international attention to the disappointingly slow recovery process in Haiti. It also brought to the fore the historically tenuous relationship between Haiti and its closest neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The countries share a history that has been marred by violence and distrust since the 19th century thanks to periodic aggression on both sides. However, last winter, Dominican President Leonel Fernández and numerous Dominican citizens responded swiftly to Haiti&#8217;s devastation by providing emergency medical services, volunteers on the ground, and millions of dollars in aid. In the subsequent months, President Fernández has advocated Haiti’s cause internationally, urging countries to deliver pledged aid funds and supporting René Préval’s government as it tries to wrest control of aid money from the hands of NGOs. The Dominican Republic has independently committed to spending $40 million of its funds on a new university in Haiti, the Universidad del Norte, that will serve 10,000 students. The university, which represents the core of the Dominican Republic’s wide-ranging relief activity in Haiti, is scheduled to be inaugurated on the [...]]]></description>
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