Dominican Republic
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Dominican-Haitian Tensions: Wag the Dog or Prelude to Genocide? By Dady Chery
A decision that strips citizenship from over 200,000 Black Dominicans was passed by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23, 2013. This highly flawed ruling designates at least four generations of DR-born individuals who descended from migrant Haitian laborers between 1929 and 2007, as being the offsprings of transients and therefore unqualified for citizenship. Continue reading
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HLLN: UN shoots five bullets into 14 year old unarmed student / Like Haiti, Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty…
3 December 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty Its current plight is, for the most part, by design http://bit.ly/1g34OOZ Haitian migrants risk Dominican deportation: Thousands of descendants face expulsion from adopted homeland following court ruling http://aje.me/1846mpk Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 October 2013: Wall Street Bets Quadrillions / Real Conspiracies / Racism Vanishes
9 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Wall Street Bets a Quadrillion of Everybody Else’s Money by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans are driven to panic at the prospect of a technical federal default, later this month – an event that could cost the public treasury billions. But Continue reading
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America Is Running the World’s Largest Terrorist Operation
The U.S. is not only killing people whose identity it doesn’t even know, but it is also killing children. And it is using the justifiably-vilified Al Qaeda tactic of killing people attending funerals of those killed – and targeting people attempting to rescue people who have been injured by – our previous strikes. Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Lugo ousted – reports
Leading British figures with an interest in Latin America have joined the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic in condemning what has been widely termed a “political coup” in Paraguay, where the elected President Lugo has been removed from office by an illegitimate “impeachment” process. Continue reading
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COHA: Dominican Republic – The Legacy of Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez
Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, a Dominican national of dark skin and Haitian ancestry, who would eventually become revered as one of the most prominent and best loved Dominican political figures of the twentieth century. Continue reading
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COHA: Francisco Caamaño Deñó, Presente
In 1963, following years of authoritarian rule under the Trujillo dictatorship, Dr. Juan Bosch was elected in the country’s first free election in nearly 40 years. Unfortunately for Bosch, his left-leaning policies were anathema for Washington, whose Cold War lenses saw even the hint of socialism or anti-U.S. policy, and any other variation of Marxist… Continue reading
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