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07-26-2011, 02:20 PM
President Leonel Fernandez took part in the conference on "The Hispanic Caribbean: its own field of study" at his Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode) yesterday. He said that trade between the US and the DR totaled about US$9 billion, and that 60% of the tourists who visit the country are from the United States. Fernandez talked about the links dating back to the pre-Columbian period between the three large Caribbean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. He recalled how the leaders of the independence movements in each of the islands who traveled between the islands in search of freedom. He said that, "there have been ties between our countries that are expressed through solidarity." He noted that the independence process of the Hispanic Caribbean was atypical and different from the rest of Latin America and that Puerto Rico still has to decide its future.
President Leonel Fernandez called for more research on the historic interaction between the Caribbean and the United States, as well as on the extinction of the Indians after the arrival of the Europeans to the New Continent.
"I think that the history of Spanish Caribbean needs to be studied in two fundamental phases: the relationship between the Caribbean and Spain and the relationship between the Caribbean and the United States. This is a relationship that was born at the end of the 19th century and that was consolidated exactly between Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and is very much alive today," he said during the conference, as reported in Listin Diario.
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President Leonel Fernandez called for more research on the historic interaction between the Caribbean and the United States, as well as on the extinction of the Indians after the arrival of the Europeans to the New Continent.
"I think that the history of Spanish Caribbean needs to be studied in two fundamental phases: the relationship between the Caribbean and Spain and the relationship between the Caribbean and the United States. This is a relationship that was born at the end of the 19th century and that was consolidated exactly between Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and is very much alive today," he said during the conference, as reported in Listin Diario.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)