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At least eight people, including two ruling party officials, suffered gunshot wounds. Just under 6 million of the Dominican Republic’s 9 million people were registered to vote. The Dominican Republic is far wealthier than Haiti, its poor neighbor on the island of Hispaniola. But many Dominicans struggle to satisfy basic needs despite a tourism and [...]

The Republic of Haiti occupies the western third and the Dominican Republic the eastern two-thirds of the island. Gonzalo Fern ez de Oviedo and Bartolom e las Casas documented that the island was called Hait “Mountainous Land”) by the Ta inhabitants. Even if Hait s a Ta name used by the three historians, [...]