Haiti unrest: Protesters pillaged stores, torched cars.

Haiti Unrest: Former Prime Minister and President Accused of “Lack of Leadership” by Business Organizations

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – About the Haitian violence over the last few days, the Dominican newspaper. Diario Libre. reported that business organizations were blaming the country’s President and the former Prime-Minister for “lack of leadership”. The recent tension in the country spawned from the fuel price increase and some Dominican business organizations are…

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Dominican Republic Congress.

New Bill Proposes the Castration of Repeat sex Offenders in the Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – Normal human beings don’t usually understand why sex offenders do such crimes and believe the whole thing to be inconceivable, unacceptable, and atrocious. At the heart of this problem, experts say, may be various mental illnesses, making it a difficult problem to solve. Forcing a woman or a child…

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William Alberto Ramos is a Venezuelan immigrant in the Dominican Republic. Photo by: Joaquin Salazar.

The Human Side of Migration: What Venezuelans are Going Through in Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – There’s an old Italian saying, “Tutto el mondo é paese”, which the literal translation is “all the world is a country”, meaning people are the same the world over. Venezuelans in their own country go through various hardships such as economic uncertainty, extremely high inflation, crime, persecution, and substantial…

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Protests opposing Bolivarian Revolution in São Paulo, Brazil.

Mass Exodus of Desperate Venezuelans Surprises Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – Currently, we’re witnessing the tragedy of homeless Venezuelans in the Dominican Republic. Over the last years, the Venezuelan migration can be considered one of the great humanitarian tragedies in the Western Hemisphere. South America has always been a migrant destination to and from countries with a complex series of…

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Dominican Republic-Haiti border. Photo by: Valentina's World Travel.

Understanding Dominican Republic–Haiti Relations: Is it out of Control?

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (ViaNews) – In February 1844, a group of Spanish descent and mulatto revolutionaries staged an independence coup against the 22-year Haitian domination of the Spanish two-thirds of the island. Ever since there has existed an evident antagonism in the Haitian-Dominican relations. There followed almost a full century of sporadic border clashes…

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