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Fernández has made economic growth and free trade a cornerstone of his two terms, and according to the C.I.A. World Factbook entry on the Dominican Republic, the country experienced 10.7 percent GDP growth...
Facing pointed questions from a Haitian advocacy group in an election-season visit, the president of the Dominican Republic implored Latin American nations to find a balance “between neo-liberalism and neo-populism” in politics and economics to a packed auditorium last night...
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna’s speech, titled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example,” proceeded without turbulence, and students who attended a private luncheon with the president beforehand said that it, too, was calm...
Edad Mercier ’10, co-president of the Harvard Haitian Alliance (HHA), said Fernández has not done enough for ethnic Haitians in the Dominican Republic...
...Haitians and black Dominicans—all those, at least, who cannot afford the requisite bribes—are deemed as such. Says Roxanna Atholz, an international law lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley, “What the Dominican Republic has done is created a permanent underclass—a category of individuals that, in the eyes of the law, don’t exist, have no right to own property, to an education, to healthcare, the right to vote.” It is “by keeping Haitians in a limbo of illegality...