Brief Political History of the Dominican Republic

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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • This video explores the basics of Dominican history and politics to explain why the Dominican Republic, followed an authoritarian path well into the 20th century. In particular, it explores why it gained independence three times, how it ended up with one of the worst dictators in the world Rafael Trujillo and why it has been so difficult to consolidate a democracy that looks out for all Dominicans. It begins with Columbus, goes through Juan Pablo Duarte, Lilis, Trujillo Balaguer and ends with the presidency of Luis Abinader.
    Bobea, Lilian. 2017. Democracy Still a Work in Progress. In Harvey Kline and Christine Wade Eds. "Latin American Politics and Development." 9th Edition.

Комментарии • 93

  • @StMaximilianFanboy
    @StMaximilianFanboy 10 месяцев назад +18

    Im a Dominican who migrated to the United States over a decade ago, you explained everything so well and presented accurate information.
    Viva RD 🇩🇴🇩🇴

    •  10 месяцев назад +1

      I appreciate your comment very much.

  • @xxKissThisXx1016
    @xxKissThisXx1016 5 месяцев назад +3

    Op could’ve done a better job explaining what and why Haiti was doing what they were doing
    It could dispel some of the anti Haitian misinformation tht centers the conversation around said occupation which was birthed out of the trujillo era

  • @Tman033
    @Tman033 3 года назад +42

    I'm half Dominican on my mom's side. It was really refreshing to get a better grasp of that half of my heritage.

    • @maliyahisrael1077
      @maliyahisrael1077 3 года назад +6

      There is no suck thing half. What ever your father is that what you are

    • @Tman033
      @Tman033 3 года назад +5

      @@maliyahisrael1077 interesting. well science, common sense, and judaism beg to differ

    • @Thatthing1234
      @Thatthing1234 2 года назад +3

      @@maliyahisrael1077 facts you're Dominican too bro 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

    • @andrejs4984
      @andrejs4984 Год назад +3

      @@Tman033 you have a dominican heritage, if you see yourself as dominican and embrace the culture within reason, who else can tell you who you are and who you are not? I think it is stupid when boricuas or Dominicans from the islands deny this identity to ppl in the states; a country where i am from used to have migration to north america in the early 20th century, if any of the americans or canadians claimed our heritage, and would like to be somehow connected to our land, i would not care if they are just 1/16, never knew anything about the culture or language, i’d still happily see them as slovaks. So thinking a 1/2 isnt dominican is just ridiculous

    • @adiedo
      @adiedo Год назад +2

      We all say half bc we acknowledge both parents. Mom is PR, dad is DR. So for me I'm half each. I knew both sets of grandparents and identify with both. We all know our heritage goes further than the immediate. My mom's branches go to the Canaries and Curacao. My dad French/Corsica. There must be more but I go with the most recent until I get more info.

  • @Aneru1
    @Aneru1 Год назад +20

    My grandfather used to tell me stories of his life under Trujillo, he spoke of public killings being a regular occurrence , beatings by police because people didn’t have their papers (id). One of the most prominent stories he told was how scared everyone was of Trujillo and that he would essentially kidnap any women/girl he liked so families would hide their daughters if they knew he was coming to their town.
    He always reminisced the day he was killed as one of the happiest days of the island only to be short lived and back under another facist.
    I Miss that old man like crazy , grateful for the life I have in the US thanks to him.

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 Год назад +1

      Trujillo wasnt a facist.

    • @xxKissThisXx1016
      @xxKissThisXx1016 5 месяцев назад

      @@monso7871yes he was

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 5 месяцев назад

      @@xxKissThisXx1016 complete nonsense the man probably didn’t even know what that word meant. Trujillo was a authoritarian who ran the country like business to enrich himself.

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 4 месяца назад

      @@xxKissThisXx1016 no he wasn't, the man most likely didn't even know what fascism was.

    • @xxKissThisXx1016
      @xxKissThisXx1016 4 месяца назад

      @@monso7871 no he was
      Provide a source to prove me wrong

  • @Brandonthrives
    @Brandonthrives 2 года назад +15

    Bro this is the best video I've seen regarding the political history and current times of the Dominican Republic.Thanks for this!

    •  2 года назад +1

      that's great. Thanks for watching!

  • @musskeeterbump
    @musskeeterbump Год назад +6

    i was reading about the history of my parents home country 🤣 them Dominicans ain't no joke 💪🏋️‍♂️ they definitely earned their stripes

  • @Elso310
    @Elso310 Год назад +6

    Thank you! As a fellow Dominican, that migrated at the age of 8 to the USA, I appreciate your content .

  • @aquaruis99
    @aquaruis99 3 года назад +18

    Why does no one mention "the moca beheading or el deguello de moca" ?

    • @m.worthy
      @m.worthy 3 года назад +6

      *Why does no one mention Anacaona?*
      "...Governor Ovando arrived in Xaragua with 300 Spanish soldiers led by Diego Velasquez, a friend of Hernan Cortes. At first taking part in the normal pleasantries and festivities, the Spanish turned on the Taino mid-way through. _Forced at sword-point into a thatch structure, 84 Taino nobles were burned alive_ without provocation. According to Las Casas, the remainder were _run through with swords and hunted down on horseback_ , leaving only Anacaona to face her execution in Santo Domingo... Transported to Santo Domingo, Anacaona was hanged from a gibbet in the plaza. She was 39 years old at the time of her death and survived by one child, Higuemota, whose fate remains unknown.
      Within a decade of their arrival, the _Spanish_ decimated the Taino population. Anacaona was just one of many Taino caciques on Hispaniola at the time of Columbus’ arrival and certainly not the only one to die at their hands..."

  • @QuackCarlos
    @QuackCarlos 2 года назад +4

    That beat on the background tho got me hella sabroso

  • @bryanbobadilla-b1s
    @bryanbobadilla-b1s 5 месяцев назад +1

    Seems like abinader is doing a good job. Right behind bukele

  • @Dominicandude34
    @Dominicandude34 3 года назад +4

    Very well explained! Keep up the good work!

  • @fabricioamaya7233
    @fabricioamaya7233 7 месяцев назад +2

    VIVA NICRAGUA

  • @djstackademikz
    @djstackademikz Год назад +6

    I’m haitian frm ny I always wondered bout dr history this video is 🔥🔥 I wonder why Haiti tried to occupy dr after Spain left? Is cause of the debt they owed france or ?

    • @ZonaCero-lo4il
      @ZonaCero-lo4il 5 месяцев назад +1

      Porque querían poseer la isla completa, quizás la avaricia y maldad. Pero ya ves como les fue.

    • @maximoarias-dn8kw
      @maximoarias-dn8kw Месяц назад

      You a good neighbor we never been wrong . We have nothing against haitians . Some haitians do . Peace n love to both

    • @ypzay
      @ypzay 9 дней назад

      ​@@ZonaCero-lo4il I read that they wanted to unite the island, but since they needed an economy they tried to get the people to return to the plantations, but although they would have been paid, they viewed it as a return to slavery and were against it.

    • @ZonaCero-lo4il
      @ZonaCero-lo4il 9 дней назад

      @@ypzay The reality was that, since France had imposed a very high payment on them as a consequence of the human and material losses in that colony, and since they did not have natural resources, and their thirst for racism against the white, they invaded the Dominicans, when they They had only been separated from Spain for just 6 months. They didn't cross before because the Spanish empire was there.
      They invaded them, murdered many Dominicans, forcing their young people into forced labor and paying France with what was produced on Dominican soil.
      Today we Dominicans are going to have to take up arms, because this is not a migration in search of a better life, we are facing a new Haitian invasion, helped by international organizations that are against Hispanicism. They want to put an end to the Dominican, and that is why it is time for us Dominicans to remember what we are made of, and we will win battle number 15 against the Haitians.
      Don't be surprised when you hear that we Dominicans are doing justice for our sovereignty.
      Haitians are very disrespectful and we are going to put them in their place.

  • @SHAUL-YIRAH-MAAMIN.
    @SHAUL-YIRAH-MAAMIN. 3 года назад +9

    Graceful explanation of a multi-layered subject full secret society lore, intrigue and mystery.......well done, .

    •  3 года назад +1

      Thank you for the kind words and for watching.

  • @Messiah-vi9mk
    @Messiah-vi9mk 2 месяца назад

    B.S!!! The whole island was liberated by Haitians in 1804. DR has no land!

  • @kynismos
    @kynismos Год назад +1

    Turjillo did not establish a "totalitarian" dictatorship. Just an authoritarian dictatorship, quite common in this part of the world.

    •  Год назад +4

      I think one can argue in good-faith about how totalitarian or not Trujillo was. But I would not place Trujillo as a run-of-the-mill Latin American dictatorship. His use of a single party, labor unions and control of personalistic propaganda (Dios y Trujillo) place him in a different camp, I would say.

  • @barbobrien9318
    @barbobrien9318 Год назад +1

    No captions???

  • @jennifferpaulino9679
    @jennifferpaulino9679 Год назад +1

    👏👏👏

  • @Pirate_King_Millz
    @Pirate_King_Millz 2 года назад +1

    Good video

  • @Messiah-vi9mk
    @Messiah-vi9mk 2 месяца назад

    Santana is Haitian 😮

  • @tonywhite383
    @tonywhite383 Год назад +1

    You claim to be an historian but you don't know the difference between English and British.

    •  Год назад +3

      I'm well aware of the difference. But the term is commonly used as a synonym, especially for this period.
      www.thesaurus.com/browse/britain
      Meanwhile, English is a common synonym for British because England so dominated Great Britain and later the United Kingdom, that there's no need to specify which part of the UK we're talking about, especially in the context of this video.

    • @tonywhite383
      @tonywhite383 Год назад +1

      This is just wrong. The terms are not and never have been synonymous, and misuse, no matter how commonly it occurs, does not make them so. For that matter, the terms Commonwealth of Nations, Perfidious Albion and the Commonwealth are not synonyms either. Moreover, that England has always been the dominant partner is immaterial; at the period in history you are discussing the political entity would have been the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, parts do not even come into it.

    •  Год назад +2

      @@tonywhite383 why is it that people love to fight with dictionaries and the thesaurus?

    • @renzobonilla5467
      @renzobonilla5467 Год назад +1

      @ so ignorance and incorrect grammar doesn't spread and become the norm

    •  Год назад +1

      @@renzobonilla5467 if it's in the thesaurus and dictionary, it's by definition not incorrect.

  • @xxKissThisXx1016
    @xxKissThisXx1016 5 месяцев назад

    Id this from wiki wand

  • @atismissyhollywood3261
    @atismissyhollywood3261 6 месяцев назад

    U lie about ur history wow

  • @enocmusic486
    @enocmusic486 9 месяцев назад

    it was a costly mistake to give up the western part of the island....Now we arepaying that mistake

    • @jzero1579
      @jzero1579 4 месяца назад

      What do you mean by that?

  • @kludgedude
    @kludgedude 3 года назад +1

    Tropico!

  • @drhemkc
    @drhemkc Год назад

    Nice one👌

  • @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182
    @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 2 года назад +6

    🇭🇹🇲🇫

  • @SixHundredandThirteen
    @SixHundredandThirteen 3 года назад +6

    Divide and conquer the whit man says

    • @IvanPlayStation4LiFe
      @IvanPlayStation4LiFe 3 года назад +7

      DR has many white citizens

    • @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182
      @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 2 года назад +1

      @@IvanPlayStation4LiFe ... Dominicans are obviously definitely not White nor will ever become White.

    • @letthisworldburn8369
      @letthisworldburn8369 2 года назад +2

      @@kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 Dominicans are mixed race

    • @tampastorm
      @tampastorm 2 года назад +5

      @@kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 many Dominicans identify as white, although your average North American white person would not describe them as such

    • @kristofferroberts162
      @kristofferroberts162 2 года назад

      @@tampastorm then they should take a trip to the northern part of the island the cibao region they’re are plenty of white Dominicans who could pass for white Americans or Europeans

  • @cordellgue518
    @cordellgue518 Год назад +3

    Anti hatianism corrupts the nation.

  • @FranceFreeL
    @FranceFreeL 3 года назад +3

    Haiti?

    •  3 года назад +3

      Here you are:
      ruclips.net/video/w-ofdpDqOZ8/видео.html

  • @neliathen638
    @neliathen638 5 месяцев назад

    Maria Trinidad Sanchez is a father founder not a woman but a man. Ramon Matias Mella is the other of three with Juan Pablo Duarte, son of a criolla and a Spaniard.

    •  5 месяцев назад

      where are you getting that Maria Trinidad was not a woman?
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Trinidad_Sánchez

  • @moisepicard5232
    @moisepicard5232 3 года назад +2

    🇫🇷