A LITTLE HISTORY ON PUERTO PLATA
A LITTLE HISTORY ON PUERTO PLATA (from Sosua news)
According to the more elderly residents of Puerto Plata, the dictator Rafael L. Trujillo Molina hated the harbour town, which was modern for its time.
Rafael L. Trujillo Molina
Around the turn of the century (1900) Puerto Plata was the most important harbour town in the Dominican Republic. Yes, even more important than Santo Domingo and Barahona. The rich sugar, coffee and tobacco farmers around Santiago used Puerto Plata as a transit harbour to ship their goods to the USA and Europe. They used a train line into the interior (to Moca) to transport their products to the coast. In 1871 the town had only 3100 inhabitants. But shortly thereafter the town was overrun with newcomers hoping to find work in and around the harbour town. These are the people that founded the Brugal rum factory, the match production plant, cacao factory and modernised the sugar cane production facilities. Most newcomers were not poor and were well educated, but had been forced to leave their country due to civil war (the Brugal family left Cuba due to a civil war) or the imminent threat of war (World War I in Europe).
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