Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean island and country in North America, neighbor of Haiti, close to Cuba and Jamaica, founded in 1492 as A Spanish colony, with a population of 11 million people. Its capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. |
It is a member of the WTO, IMF and United Nations. It is a dictatorship, ruled by the Dominicans and Jesuits. Its main religion is Christianity.
History of Haiti
The Taino people inhabited the Caribbean islands.
1492 Christopher Columbus, agent of the Spanish House of Castile who work with the Dominicans, invades the island and conquers through viral diseases. His brother Bartholomew founds Santo Domingo. The island is used in the Atlantic slave trade of Africans.
1538 (reign of Charles V Habsburg) the Dominicans found St Thomas Aquinas University.
1679 the French conquer the western part of the island (Haiti) to use the Haitians as slaves in the sugar industry. They allow the Jesuits to enter Haiti.
1700 Spanish Habsburgs are replaced by the Bourbons.
1714 the jesuits build the National Pantheon church.
1754 the Seven Years' War. The jesuits end all their Caribbean missions, work with the British Empire (House of Hanover, EIC) focus on the more profitable opium trade in India and China and present themselves as anti-colonist, anti-slavery and Enlightened.
1791 Haitian Revolution ritual with Toussaint Louverture, influenced by jesuit Raynal.
1821 José Nuñez de Càceres (later professor at St Thomas Aquinas University) is used in an 'independence' ritual in the Dominican Republic.
1823 Haitian occupation.
1916 occupation by the US.
1930 dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
1952 jesuits found Loyola Polytechnic Institute.
1961 dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
1965 Dominican Civil War.
1966 Joaquin Balaguer as president. sex tourism in Las Terrenas and Cabarete, human trafficking for prostitution, generating 9 billion dollars annually.
2022 jesuit Luis Abinader as president.
Presidents
Pedro Santana, Buenaventura Baez, José Antonio Salcedo, Ulises Heureaux, Carlos Felipe Morales, Horacio Vàsquez, Héctor Trujillo, Joaquin Balaguer, Salvador Jorge Blanco, Léonel Fernandez, Danilo Medina, Luis Abinader.