Santo Domingo

Porto Santo, Madeira Islands the oldest son of Christopher Columbus When his father managed the great voyage of discovery in 1492, Diego was made a page at the Spanish court. When his father’s died in 1506, he began a long struggle to regain his father’s former privileges in the Indies. Diego’s marriage to María Álvarez de Toledo, niece of the duque de Alba, the cousin of King Ferdinand, worked in his favour, and in 1508 he was accredited governor of the Indies. He arrived at Santo Domingo on…

from Lola’s and to distance her from oncoming changes, as confronting this neighbor would brought. That she won’t confront him when she’s willing to fight police officers displays a deep and indirect rebellion against the government officers in Santo Domingo who thrust her out of her home. This is emblematic of Said’s argument about the paradox of exile; Belicia resembles these officers when she continues to call Lola “fea” or “idiota”, and he asserts, “Of these, the state—or more accurately,…

lines in Dominican Republic, mostly for sugar cane plantations and are privately owned by the plantation. In Santo Domingo metro city rails are starting to develop, helping ease the traffic in such busy city. There are thirteen airports in the Dominican Republic, five of them being international, to help spread tourists arrivals and ease congestion at the main airport in Santo Domingo. In 1999 the government sold control of the airport management to different foreign consortia, helping with…

I was born May 11 1966 in the Dominican Republic. I came to the United States in 1991. I arrived in Kennedy airport New York City, on March 19, 1991. The first place I visited was Metropolitan hospital, because my mother was sick, she had gallbladder surgery. After the surgery her blood pressure went up then she was in coma. My sisters and my brother were scare, they were children between 15 and 7 years old. I remembered their faces sad and happy at the same time; happy, because we were…

always some type of composition being played or even danced to. There are various types of music genres played in the Dominican Republic, for example, Merengue, Salsa, Bachata, Reggaeton, and Merengue de Calle are often played in the streets of Santo Domingo. The music, especially Merengue and Bachata, came about from the dark history of slave labor and the native genocide. The Dominican Republic and Haiti were alienated into two self-regulating nations. Christopher Columbus discovered the…

“Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.”(Alfred Lord Tennyson). These are words Oscar Wao unknowingly lived by. As teenagers and frankly as humans, many people focus on finding a person to love and in return be loved. This same idea applies to a Mister Oscar Wao. He desperately wants to find love. Desperately meaning he fell in love with every girl he saw. The only thing holding Oscar back is what he believes is the fukú. The fukú is a curse put on a family for many…

Columbus first settled here in the island previously known as Quisqueva, Bohia and Ayti, then the Spanish named it Hispaniola. The original inhabitants called Tainos were annihilated as African slaves were delivered here with special purposes. Santo Domingo, the capital was the city at the very heart of the Spanish Empire in the New World. In 1967 Spanish ceded to France the present Republic of Haiti and the part that continued to be a Spanish colony turned into the Dominican Republic. Many…

What was the American Colonization Society and what was their plan? The American Colonization Society was a charitable organization created by Reverend Robert Finley in 1817. There plan was to assist free slaves in emigrating to Africa. The American Colonization Society colonized land in western Africa. In 1821 that land became modern day Liberia. Finely believed that the American Colonization Society would be seen as charitable work for Americans and Africans. He thought returning the Africans…

The Dominican civil war began on April 24th 1965 and it served as the climax to the fight for democracy that had begun with the assassination of Trujillo in 1961. Like all powerful movements, the 1965 civil war began with the young people of the Dominican Republic. Young adults and teenagers who had lived most of their lives under a dictatorship sought to fight, even if to the death, for the end to political limitations and the fear brought forth from the old regime. They sought the birth of a…

Bastides set off from Cadiz in 1500 in search of new lands. He found the isthmus in 1501, but was unable to stay for very long because of his ship's deteriorating condition due to shipworms. Despite many attempts to repair them, his ships sank in a Santo Domingo port and was not only unable to continue his exploration of the isthmus, he was also arrested and sent back to Spain by the governor for allegedly trading with natives without permission. After returning to Spain to face trial, the…