Re: 01/2012 - Another day in another year
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Originally Posted by
greydread
All very accurate except for that last sentence. 1st off, you can't even sign a lease without Dominican sponsorship if you don't have at least a residency visa. You have no standing in a court without it. It's nothing like the USA. You have no rights to speak of except to get on the plane (if they let you) and go the fuck back to wherever you came from. This is clearly not aimed at "Gringos or Euros" and is just as clearly aimed directly at the Millions of Haitians who currently reside in the Dominican Republic.
Oh sure, they'll find some deadbeat Gringo/Euro trash to hold up as front Men for their "crackdown on illegal immigration" but everyone can see where this is going. It's a Dominican logic application:
"My Dog has fleas. The Eco lovers will stop supporting me if I spray the Dog, the animal rights people will stop supporting me if I put one of those carcinogenic collars on it and I need their money, what can I do? Hmmm......I'm going to shave the Daam Dog!".
Close, but not entirely correct. All of the property I have purchased here on the island has been without a Dominican sponsor, at least, not one that I was aware of. But then again, that could be because of my residency.
As far as the euro/gringo trash, if you're not following the daily news rags, you wouldn't be aware of all the trash they catch and send back to their home countries.
I would feel safe to say that for quite a few years now, the country has been averaging 2-3 a month, with the resulting public announcements of "another one caught and deported."
A lot of that is being done with the "assistance" of Interpol and the DEA.
Re: 01/2012 - Another day in another year
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Originally Posted by
MrHappy
Close, but not entirely correct. All of the property I have purchased here on the island has been without a Dominican sponsor, at least, not one that I was aware of. But then again, that could be because of my residency.
As far as the euro/gringo trash, if you're not following the daily news rags, you wouldn't be aware of all the trash they catch and send back to their home countries.
I would feel safe to say that for quite a few years now, the country has been averaging 2-3 a month, with the resulting public announcements of "another one caught and deported."
A lot of that is being done with the "assistance" of Interpol and the DEA.
It's exactly because of your status as a legal resident. Without it you would be limited to working through an agent, adding expense and a measure of doubt to your transactions.
The "assistance of Interpol and the DEA" should read "at the Direction of Interpol and the DEA"....and now the IRS. The people who run the DR are fully aware of who their Masters are and they do their bidding to keep their licenses to steal current.
There are no accidents here. The people who plan the economic development of the region also plan the military development of the region. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega, Evo Morales and a handful of others are flies in the ointment. These are actually two separate discussions but they are directly related.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/p...994/ramsey.htm
Re: 01/2012 - Another day in another year
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Originally Posted by
MrHappy
......A lot of that is being done with the "assistance" of Interpol and the DEA.
yeah they are assisting big time already, just the other night, early night, maybe around 8 or 9pm, I was sitting in a colmado having a beer, with another African American ex - pat, on Duarte. There was a hispanic looking guy, with another guy (and they both had expensive looking camera equipment with them), and I had seen them pass by us earlier in the night, but wasn't really paying attention to them and what they were doing. At one point the chica we were with started yelling at someone that was behind me, I turned and it was the same hispanic guy. He was taking pics of our group and the chica spotted him doing it. The other ex-pat acknowledged that the guy had been trying to take pics of him all night, but when he saw him he just turned away. The ex-pat had been a high level gov't worker in his previous life, and told me that it happens all the time, and that they were looking to take pictures for face recognition, to see if you were wanted somewhere.
Later that night maybe twenty minutes later after we chased them off after the chica started yelling at them, I see the hispanic guy again, pointing his camera this time directly at me. I pointed at him, quickly got out of my seat, and started to approach the guy. Never saw a guy jump on a moto faster, as I approached he sped off, the moto was waiting probably another agent. So yeah they are definitely increasing their efforts.