Rafael Trujillo, the often blood-thirsty dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years, perhaps deserved his fate in an even-handed appraisal of history.

The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive.

The Dominican Republic could turn toward Communist-type authoritarianism as easily as toward Western freedom.

For that reason any democratic reform and effort to bring genuine representative government to the Dominican Republic will need the greatest sympathy and help.

If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

The southern arrows bend northward just east of the Dominican Republic before straightening out again.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Worry beads ( masbaha ) made of Dominican Republic blue amber.

Amber jewellery from Dominican Republic

* Adrián Beltré, Dominican Republic baseball player

* Restoration Day ( Dominican Republic )

* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.

* 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8. 0 hits northern Dominican Republic.

* Alexandra Caso ( born 1987 ), Dominican Republic volleyball player

* 1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d ' état against Juan Bosch.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

About 5 % of the population is of Hispanic origin, regardless of race, primarily from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

Dominican amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is dangerous due to the risk of tunnel collapse.

Although all Dominican amber is fluorescent, the rarest Dominican amber is blue amber.

Its most familiar representative is Dominican amber.

Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.

St. Raymond of Penyafort ( 1175 – 1275 ), a Spanish Dominican priest, is the patron saint of canonists, due to his important contributions to the science of canon law.

Cable television in the Dominican Republic is provided by a variety of companies.

The main service provider in the Dominican Republic is Telecable from Tricom.

Aster is concentrated in Santo Domingo, but is expanding its service throughout the Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic ( Spanish: República Dominicana ) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola.

The land border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which occupies the western one-third of the island, is 388 km long.

: Shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti ( eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic, western one-third is Haiti )

The Dominican Republic is occasionally damaged by tropical storms and hurricanes, which originate in the mid-Atlantic and southeastern Caribbean from June until November ( mainly from August to October ) each year.

DJ Dr. Dust along with his DJ partner and cousin DJ Duran from the Bronx are considered to be the first Dominican DJs in Hip-Hop ( documented in The BX Factor magazine in 1996 ).

During the short reign ( 1494 – 1498 ) of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, the city of Florence could have been considered a theocracy.

It means: Today the flower of the same name of the revolutionary group is considered one of the national symbols of the Dominican Republic.

One of the most international parades in the Dominican Republic is the one in San Pedro de Macoris that exhibits the " Guloyas ", which are considered cultural heritage of the world.

For example, Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Dominican Republic of Juan Bosch, or Chile of Salvador Allende are not considered to be democratic or the conflicts do not qualify as wars according to these theorists.

Dominican rock had started its scene in the early 1980s, when Luis Días & Transporte Urbano, ( who is considered to be the father of Dominican rock ), came onto the scene and created this genre.

The year 1600 is considered the beginning of the era of modern freethought, as it is marked by the execution in Italy of Giordano Bruno, a former Dominican Monk, by the Inquisition.

The date 1209 is far too early for a Dominican like Thomas to step in to the office, and so Rodolphus, the first real bishop of Finland and his successor Folquinus must be considered as 13th century bishops nominated and appointed by the Danish and not by the Swedes.

Some of Chafee's positions that are considered to be within the mainstream of the Republican Party include his support of free trade agreements, like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ); Bankruptcy Reform ; the partial privatization of Social Security ; and the USA Patriot Act.

In Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, chorizo and longaniza are considered two separate meats.

In iconography, Martin de Porres is often depicted as a young mulatto friar ( he was a Dominican brother, not a priest, as evidenced by the black scapular and capuce he wears, while priests of the Dominican order wear all white ) with a broom, since he considered all work to be sacred no matter how menial.

Konrad long was considered to have been a member of the Dominican Order, but modern scholarly consensus holds that he was not.

During this period he was considered the most likely contender for the PLD candidacy in the 2012 Dominican Presidential Elections.

Domincan Merengue music can be considered an expression of Dominican transnationalism, as there was a significant shift in migration of Domincans to New York City in the twentieth century.

He is considered, along with Joaquín Balaguer and Juan Bosch, as one of the most prominent Dominican political figures of the 20th century.

His edition of the Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tolosanae is still considered important nowadays for its meticulous transcription of a manuscript by the Dominican inquisitor Bernard Gui long regarded as lost forever, but rediscovered in London ( British Library, ms. Add.

Dominican is not considered a “ dry campus ” when it comes to alcohol ; however, Pennafort and Fanjeax are dry dorms by default because no one over the age of 21 lives in them.

He was a visionary and liberal thinker who along with Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella is widely considered the architect of the Dominican Republic and its independence from Haitian rule in 1844.

This is in contrast to their situation in the 1970s, when a demographic study considered Dominican immigrants to be " privileged " and an " elite ", as a large percentage of Dominican immigrants were professionals and managers.

La Isabela in the Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic is considered the first formal European settlement in the New World.

He is considered by Dominicans as the second leader of the 1844 Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Ramón Matías Mella.