News and Analysis: Dominican Republic

La policía abre fuego sobre manifestación pacifica en La República Dominicana

4 personas muertas, docenas heridas

August 6, 2012

El 12 de junio comenzó una oleada de protestas en la ciudad de Salcedo en La República Dominicana. El pueblo de Salcedo se lanzó a las calles por el asesinato de un pelotero, Héctor Ramón Medina López.

Police open fire in Dominican Republic on peaceful demonstrators

Four killed, dozens wounded

July 9, 2012

Dominican Republic national police open fire on unarmed demonstrators killing four and wounding more than 20.

Why no sanctions on the United States?

A long and bloody record of 'crimes against peace'

July 5, 2012

Why are there no sanctions against the U.S.? Why are no U.S. leaders—past or present—currently occupying prison cells or awaiting trial?

Dominican government continues repression of revolutionary activists

Decades of anti-imperialist struggle in the Dominican Republic

April 1, 2011

Another leader of the Dominican Popular Movement, Braulio Vargas, of Navarrete, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison. Vargas is the most recent victim of a 55-year campaign of repression by the state to destroy the MPD.

El MPD y 55 Años de Lucha Anti-Imperialista en la República Dominicana

¡Libertad para Braulio Vargas!

April 1, 2011

Un miltante del Movimiento Popular Dominicano, Braulio Vargas, de Navarrete, fue condenado a 20 años en prisión, la más reciente víctima de una campaña de 55 años de represión de Estado.

Protests demanding social services erupt in Dominican Republic

In brief

July 17, 2009

Workers organized a general strike on July 14 in the northeast corner of the Dominican Republic to force the government to finish public works projects in the area. Protests against rolling blackouts on July 17 in the poor neighborhood of Capotillo in the capital of Santo Domingo were met with police violence.

The Fourth Fleet of intervention

Yankee response in the hemisphere

May 7, 2008

Translated by Granma International and reproduced here with minor edits. It was created in 1943 to fight Nazi submarines and protect shipping during World War II. It was deactivated as unnecessary in 1950.

April 1965 and the unfinished Dominican revolution

A historical analysis

April 1, 2006

On April 28, 1965, 42,000 U.S. troops poured into the Dominican Republic to put down the beginnings of a democratic revolution. The invasion and repression that followed still shape the Dominican struggle for sovereignty.

On the barricades

Around the world

July 1, 2005

Bolivian masses shut down Congress, oust president Revolution is in the air in Bolivia. The massive intervention of a determined people has led to the ouster of the president. As of early June, the entire social and political order is in grave crisis.

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