My parents were blacklisted from performing in DR

Balaguer, who held on to power through electoral fraud and suppressed free speach by murdering journalists, had a wall built around el Faro a Colon to hide the immense barrio that sprawled around it. It was later dubbed the wall of shame. EL Faro ,built to celebrate the 500 years of the “discovery” of the americas, emits 157 light beams into the night sky, forming a cross that is supposed represent the christianization of the Americas, in a city where there are daily black outs till this day.
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I'd be so proud of them. Wow!