Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his ...

How much did Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo pay Lawyer Morris Ernst and his associates for their report absolving Trujillo in the Galindez-Murphy murders (TIME, July 29, 1957)? The figure ...

That’s when Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the military to ... Sadly, this isn’t the first time the Dominican Republic has forcibly removed Haitians. But what makes Abinader ...

The recent boats originated from the Dominican Republic, where President Luis ... which took place when Dominican dictator ...

The Dominican Republic was for most of its history primarily an exporter of sugar, coffee, and tobacco, but over the last three decades the economy has become more diversified as the service ...

During the same period more than 5000 Haitians were deported from other countries about half of them from the Bahamas ...

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The economic growth of the Dominican Republic has tripled the regional average over the past two decades, resulting in 2.8 million people rising out of poverty, a middle class that now surpasses the ...

The Dominican Republic announced this week that it had repatriated or deported almost 11,000 Haitians as a part of a new large-scale plan to curb Haitian migration to the country. The mass ...

Haitian migrants in a lorry belonging to the immigration enforcement service of the Dominican Republic after being transported to Haiti The Dominican Republic says it plans to deport up to 10,000 ...