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 Dominican Republic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The major parties are the conservative Social Christian Reformist party, organized by Joaquín Balaguer, the rival and social-democratic Dominican Revolutionary party, organized by Juan Bosch (both men served as president of the country), and the centrist Dominican Liberation party.
Elections in 1996 led to a runoff that was won by the Dominican Liberation party candidate, Leonel Fernández Reyna.
Although the country enjoyed steady economic growth under Fernández, farmers and poorer Dominicans saw little improvement in their well-being, and his term was marred by corruption scandals.
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  Dominican Revolutionary Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dominican Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, or PRD) is one of the main political parties of the Dominican Republic.
The party was founded in 1939 by Dominican exiles in Havana, Cuba.
Although the party used to be considered by many, a social democratic party, it has been the subject of criticism for its recent anti-socialist actions and tendencies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dominican_Revolutionary_Party   (236 words)

  
 Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
Dominican crisis 1965 1971: "The coup leaders dissolved the 2-house legislature and declared 'nonexistent' a constitution Bosch had signed in July...Leaders of 6 rightist political parties were called to the presidential palace after the coup and were asked to help form a provisional government" (page 17).
Dominican crisis 1965 1971: "The civilian ruling triumvirate headed by Donald Joseph Reid Cabral was overthrown Apr. 24, 1965 in an armed 'coup d'etat' by army rebels seeking to re-install exiled ex-Pres.
Dominican crisis 1965 1971: "Despite the evacuations of U.S. civilians, it became apparent soon that a major U.S. motive for intervention was fear of 'another Cuba;' the U.S. charged that the pro-Bosch forces were controlled by Communist elements.
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 Dominican Revolutionary Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Dominican Revolutionary Party ((The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, or PRD) is one of the main political parties of the (A republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola) Dominican Republic.
The party was founded in 1939 by Dominican exiles in (Capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas) Havana, (A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Cuba.
The party's distinctive color is (A member of the Caucasoid race) white.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Do/Dominican_Revolutionary_Party.htm   (198 words)

  
 Dominican Republic (05/07)
The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy with national powers divided among independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
The Dominican Republic maintains an embassy in the United States at 1715 22d Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel.
An ongoing concern in the Dominican Republic is the inability of participants in the electricity sector to establish financial viability for the system.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35639.htm   (3913 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Dominicans make history
At least 52,000 Dominicans who are registered to vote headed to voting booths set up in schools and community centers in heavily Dominican enclaves in the United States and overseas.
Dominicans in cities such as New York, Miami, San Juan, and Madrid cast their ballots by picking a color that represented their candidate's party.
The three main candidates were Mejia, the candidate for the Dominican Revolutionary Party; Fernandez, former president and candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party; and Eduardo Estrella, candidate for the Social Christian Reformist Party.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/05/17/dominicans_cast_ballots   (782 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dominican Revolutionary Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy whose national powers are divided among independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues.
Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911–July 4, 1982) was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1978 to 1982.
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 The Dominican Republic
In 1950, three quarters of 0 Dominican workers labored in agriculture, and four fifths of the country's export income came from sugar.
The unequal effects of the boom vaulted social democrat Hipolito Mejia of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) to the presidency in 2000.
Because the Dominican economy is so closely tied to the U.S. economy, fading U.S. growth may dampen the Dominican "miracle." The substitution of corn syrup and artificial sweeteners for cane sugar in U.S. soft drinks destroyed the Dominican "miracle" of the 1960s and 1970s.
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 Dominican Republic Gets Female Candidate
Dominican Republic's Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch speaks to her supporters during a campaign rally at the Sports' Palace in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in this Sunday, June 1, 2003 file photo.
Ortiz is running for the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, which will be a challenge given she has seven male competitors, one of whom is President Hipolito Mejia.
Party rules prohibit a president from running for a second term, but Mejia has said he plans on running in the May elections despite the rule.
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 Dominican Republic
Its traditional governing class wallowed through 43 presidents and 56 revolutions in the seven decades before the U.S. Marine occupation (1916-24) and, by virtue of the ferocity of its attacks on the present Government, apparently has not abandoned the belief that elections are mere episodes in the evolution of conspiracy.
With the possibility of a riot or a coup never to be discarded, Dominican politics remains a species of perpetual psychological warfare whose outcome is frequently arbitrated by the American Embassy.
For Dominican rural society is still organized much as the Spaniards left it, and the Dominican peasant is still a blunt instrument of hacienda agriculture.
www.normangall.com /dominicanr_art5.htm   (1563 words)

  
 Politics is up first for Dominicans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dominicans in Santo Domingo, the capital, wait to cast their votes yesterday during the country's presidential elections.
During the final week of campaigning, the parties of the top three candidates each held massive, boisterous rallies in the streets of this capital city.
But Dominicans have not forgotten the long reign of former President Joaquin Balaguer, whose election victories in 1986, 1990 and 1994 were tainted by evidence of fraud.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04138/317452.stm   (1007 words)

  
 Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL):
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a newly formed working class party of leaders and activists from many different struggles, founded to promote the movement for revolutionary change.
Capitalism—the system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state—is the source of the main problems confronting humanity today: imperialist war, poverty, exploitation, layoffs, unemployment, racism, sexism, lesbian/gay/bi/trans oppression, environmental destruction, mass imprisonment, unionbusting, and more.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation emerges from this mass antiwar movement with the firm conviction that the source of the endless war drive is U.S. capitalism itself.
www.pslweb.org /site/PageServer?pagename=AboutUs   (968 words)

  
 Caribbean Net News:  Dominican Republic Revolutionary Party holds convention
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: After several delays and postponements, the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Dominican Republic's main opposition force, was due to conduct its national convention Sunday in order to elect a new president, secretary general and organizing director, including as well as 21 of 30 vice-presidents, and some 70,000 other minor leadership posts.
As tension intensified in the run-up to the convention, there are fears that allegations made by competing candidates concerning unwarranted exclusions and inclusions of voters from the party’s rolls may spoil the event.
The Cardinal urged the parties to open their doors to young people for the sake of injecting new blood with a view to their regeneration.
www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/06/13/convention.shtml   (326 words)

  
 Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere
HISTORY The island of Hispaniola, of which the Dominican Republic forms the eastern two-thirds and Haiti the remainder, was originally occupied by members of the Taino tribe, a branch of Arawak-speaking people who may have originated in South America.
Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans, agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place (behind mining) in terms of export earnings.
The outlook for the Dominican economy depends largely on two factors: the government's ability to maintain policies conducive to continued macroeconomic stability and society's ability to adapt to the requirements of an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
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 Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After concluding an IMF agreement, balancing the budget, and curtailing inflation, the Dominican Republic is experiencing a period of economic growth marked by low inflation, a balance in external accounts, and a steadily increasing GDP.
The leading parties in 1994 were: the PRSC, linked to the International Christian Democratic political movement, whose candidate was President Joaquin Balaguer; the PRD, affiliated with the Socialist International, whose candidate was Jose Francisco Pena Gomez; the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), whose candidate was former President Juan Bosch.
Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans (due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place (behind mining) in terms of export earnings.
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 Dominican Crisis Demands Revolutionary Solution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dominican workers, with those across the Caribbean and Latin America, are all in the same boat and would certainly approve and identify with such a struggle.
Workers who are happy to follow the left parties in mass strikes and overwhelmingly elect them to union positions have never given them over 10 percent of the vote in presidential elections.
Revolutionary internationalism, not nationalism, is central to the strategy for achieving socialism.
www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/domrepPR71.html   (3016 words)

  
 Dominican Republic: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
A sergeant in the Dominican army trained by the marines, Rafaél Leonides Trujillo Molina, overthrew Horacio Vásquez in 1930 and established a dictatorship that lasted until his assassination in 1961, 31 years later.
Dominican Republic - Map of Dominican Republic & articles on flags, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
Dominican Republic - Dominican Republic Dominican Republic, republic (2005 est.
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 Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic in the West Indies occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti.
In 1982 elections, Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Revolutionary Party defeated Balaguer and Bosch.
Postnational pressures: Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic.
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 United Press International - International(p) - Analysis: Blood taints Dominican campaign
SANTO DOMINGO,, Dominican Republic, April 26 (UPI) -- The political violence in the second week of April that left two people shot dead and 10 injured is only one of many negative moments in the country's electoral process that will culminate May 16 with the Dominican Republic's presidential elections.
Although the three major parties participating in the campaign made a commitment to instruct their supporters to avoid violent confrontations, few believe that that commitment is going to be honored in the time remaining for campaigning.
Even the political parties involved in the violence recognized that these actions could harm them at the polls and have pleaded with their supporters for a peaceful end to the violence marring the campaign.
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 Dominican Pol Treated in Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Former President Juan Bosch, the founder of two of the Dominican Republic's three main parties, is being treated in Cuba for medical problems, party officials confirmed Wednesday.
Bosch founded the left-leaning Dominican Revolutionary Party during the rule of former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
In 1996, the Dominican Liberation Party candidate, Leonel Fernandez, was elected president.
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 Council Witnesses Presidential Runoff in the Dominican Republic
On June 30, voters in the Dominican Republic chose Leonel Fernandez as their new president in a runoff election witnessed by The Carter Center's Council of Freely Elected Heads of Government and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).
In the runoff election, President-elect Fernandez of the Dominican Liberation Party captured 51.25 percent of the vote compared to Dominican Revolutionary Party candidate Jos‚ Francisco Pena Gomez's 48.75 percent.
In August 1994, the government and opposition political parties negotiated a "Pact for Democracy," which promised new elections in two years, prohibited two successive terms for a president, and required a second round of voting if no presidential candidate received a majority of the votes.
www.cartercenter.org /news/documents/doc189.html   (419 words)

  
 Dominican Revolutionary Party - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The party was founded in 1939 by Dominican exiles in Havana, Cuba.
It was then established in the Dominican Republic in 1961.
The Dominican Revolutionary Party currently holds 29 out of 32 seats in the Senate of the Dominican Republic and 70 out of the 150 deputies in the Chamber of Deputies.
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 Dominican Republic - FamousWhy
Dominican Republic is a presidential republic according to The Constitution voted on November 28, 1966.
The legislative activity is exerted by the president and the Congress formed by Senate and the Deputy Chamber and the executive activity is exerted by govern named and ruled by the president.
There are 22 political parties and the main are: the Social Christian Party, the Dominican Liberation Party, the Dominican Revolutionary Party and the Revolutionary Social Christian Party.
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 NDI - National Democratic Institute
Since the establishment of constitutional government in 1966, the Dominican Republic has experienced a troubled electoral history, including the manipulation of results and disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of opposition voters during the 1994 presidential elections.
Opposition party leaders have since told NDI that the delegation's position helped prevent post-electoral violence and contributed to the peaceful resolution of the electoral crisis.
Project results have included: changes within municipal party leadership structures; increased training capabilities for women's party wings; the creation of a party vocational training school in an underprivileged neighborhood; and the decentralization of political training from the capital to the provinces.
www.ndi.org /worldwide/lac/dominican/dominican.asp   (680 words)

  
 Narcotics Agents Win Lawsuit Against PA Attorney General
The agents' allegations involved leftist politician Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, the longtime leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party and a three-time presidential hopeful.
McLaughlin and Micewski said they had uncovered a Dominican drug-trafficking ring operating in Philadelphia, New York and other Eastern cities that funneled drug profits to the Dominican Revolutionary Party, which they claimed was supported by the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department.
The lawsuit also claimed that Gomez's Dominican Revolutionary Party "was, and is, protected and sanctioned, unlawfully, by agencies of the United States government, to include the CIA and the State Department, enabling the Dominicans to distribute illegal drugs at will to the fl and Hispanic populations of the Eastern Seaboard." That lawsuit ultimately was dismissed.
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