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Dominican Republic

Twice independent — from Haiti in 1844, and from Spain again in 1865.

Independent to the present; the region's largest economy today.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Dominican Republic — the shape you scrub through changes in 1844 · 1866.

Moments from the Chronicle

• 1861 Civil War — and Santo Domingo Fort Sumter is fired on (12 April); the same year Spain reannexes the Dominican Republic.
• 1915 Occupations of Hispaniola US Marines occupy Haiti (1915-34) and the Dominican Republic (1916-24).

Further reading

• The Dominican Republic: A National History Frank Moya Pons · 1994

  The standard national history, covering independence from Haiti and from Spain.

• Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent Eduardo Galeano · 1971

  Regional sweep placing the Dominican Republic's sugar-and-debt history within the wider Latin American pattern.

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz · 2007 · fiction

  A Dominican-American family saga running through the Trujillo dictatorship into the present-day diaspora, anchored in the modern Dominican Republic.

• In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Álvarez · 1994 · fiction

  Fictionalizes the Mirabal sisters' resistance to the Trujillo regime in 1950s-60s Dominican Republic.

Sources

• Dominican Republic — Wikipedia