Brief Political History of the Dominican Republic

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  • @ServusRegis
    @ServusRegis Рік тому +19

    Im a Dominican who migrated to the United States over a decade ago, you explained everything so well and presented accurate information.
    Viva RD 🇩🇴🇩🇴

    •  Рік тому +1

      I appreciate your comment very much.

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому

      esa istoria esta incompleta, nuestra istoria sin los tainos y sin caamaño no esta completa.

    • @ServusRegis
      @ServusRegis Місяць тому

      @@dirord3497 está hablando sombre historia sobre políticas no toda la historia Dominicana

  • @Aneru1
    @Aneru1 Рік тому +23

    My grandfather used to tell me stories of his life under Trujillo, he spoke of public killings being a regular occurrence , beatings by police because people didn’t have their papers (id). One of the most prominent stories he told was how scared everyone was of Trujillo and that he would essentially kidnap any women/girl he liked so families would hide their daughters if they knew he was coming to their town.
    He always reminisced the day he was killed as one of the happiest days of the island only to be short lived and back under another facist.
    I Miss that old man like crazy , grateful for the life I have in the US thanks to him.

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 Рік тому +1

      Trujillo wasnt a facist.

    • @xxKissThisXx1016
      @xxKissThisXx1016 8 місяців тому +1

      @@monso7871yes he was

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 8 місяців тому

      @@xxKissThisXx1016 complete nonsense the man probably didn’t even know what that word meant. Trujillo was a authoritarian who ran the country like business to enrich himself.

    • @monso7871
      @monso7871 8 місяців тому

      @@xxKissThisXx1016 no he wasn't, the man most likely didn't even know what fascism was.

    • @xxKissThisXx1016
      @xxKissThisXx1016 8 місяців тому

      @@monso7871 no he was
      Provide a source to prove me wrong

  • @Tman033
    @Tman033 3 роки тому +45

    I'm half Dominican on my mom's side. It was really refreshing to get a better grasp of that half of my heritage.

    • @maliyahisrael1077
      @maliyahisrael1077 3 роки тому +6

      There is no suck thing half. What ever your father is that what you are

    • @Tman033
      @Tman033 3 роки тому +7

      @@maliyahisrael1077 interesting. well science, common sense, and judaism beg to differ

    • @Thatthing1234
      @Thatthing1234 2 роки тому +4

      @@maliyahisrael1077 facts you're Dominican too bro 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

    • @andrejs4984
      @andrejs4984 Рік тому +4

      @@Tman033 you have a dominican heritage, if you see yourself as dominican and embrace the culture within reason, who else can tell you who you are and who you are not? I think it is stupid when boricuas or Dominicans from the islands deny this identity to ppl in the states; a country where i am from used to have migration to north america in the early 20th century, if any of the americans or canadians claimed our heritage, and would like to be somehow connected to our land, i would not care if they are just 1/16, never knew anything about the culture or language, i’d still happily see them as slovaks. So thinking a 1/2 isnt dominican is just ridiculous

    • @adiedo
      @adiedo Рік тому +2

      We all say half bc we acknowledge both parents. Mom is PR, dad is DR. So for me I'm half each. I knew both sets of grandparents and identify with both. We all know our heritage goes further than the immediate. My mom's branches go to the Canaries and Curacao. My dad French/Corsica. There must be more but I go with the most recent until I get more info.

  • @Elso310
    @Elso310 Рік тому +6

    Thank you! As a fellow Dominican, that migrated at the age of 8 to the USA, I appreciate your content .

  • @Brandonthrives
    @Brandonthrives 3 роки тому +15

    Bro this is the best video I've seen regarding the political history and current times of the Dominican Republic.Thanks for this!

    •  3 роки тому +2

      that's great. Thanks for watching!

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому +1

      y eso que la contó incompleta, si agrega la parte que no dijo de los tainos, y la parte de caamaño que le partió el culo a los gringos..

    • @Brandonthrives
      @Brandonthrives Місяць тому +1

      @@dirord3497 me voy a meter de cabeza a leer y aprender eso. Gracias bro 💪🏽

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому +1

      @@Brandonthrives busca la gerra de 1965 república Dominicana.

    • @Brandonthrives
      @Brandonthrives Місяць тому

      @ Esa me la sé un poco. El abuelo mío era militar y me hablaba de la guerra civil. Aprenderé mas

  • @Dominicandude34
    @Dominicandude34 3 роки тому +4

    Very well explained! Keep up the good work!

  • @aquaruis99
    @aquaruis99 3 роки тому +18

    Why does no one mention "the moca beheading or el deguello de moca" ?

    • @m.worthy
      @m.worthy 3 роки тому +6

      *Why does no one mention Anacaona?*
      "...Governor Ovando arrived in Xaragua with 300 Spanish soldiers led by Diego Velasquez, a friend of Hernan Cortes. At first taking part in the normal pleasantries and festivities, the Spanish turned on the Taino mid-way through. _Forced at sword-point into a thatch structure, 84 Taino nobles were burned alive_ without provocation. According to Las Casas, the remainder were _run through with swords and hunted down on horseback_ , leaving only Anacaona to face her execution in Santo Domingo... Transported to Santo Domingo, Anacaona was hanged from a gibbet in the plaza. She was 39 years old at the time of her death and survived by one child, Higuemota, whose fate remains unknown.
      Within a decade of their arrival, the _Spanish_ decimated the Taino population. Anacaona was just one of many Taino caciques on Hispaniola at the time of Columbus’ arrival and certainly not the only one to die at their hands..."

  • @SHAUL-HAYIM-YIRAH-MAAMIN
    @SHAUL-HAYIM-YIRAH-MAAMIN 3 роки тому +9

    Graceful explanation of a multi-layered subject full secret society lore, intrigue and mystery.......well done, .

    •  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you for the kind words and for watching.

  • @musskeeterbump
    @musskeeterbump 2 роки тому +6

    i was reading about the history of my parents home country 🤣 them Dominicans ain't no joke 💪🏋️‍♂️ they definitely earned their stripes

  • @QuackCarlos
    @QuackCarlos 2 роки тому +4

    That beat on the background tho got me hella sabroso

  • @djstackademikz
    @djstackademikz Рік тому +6

    I’m haitian frm ny I always wondered bout dr history this video is 🔥🔥 I wonder why Haiti tried to occupy dr after Spain left? Is cause of the debt they owed france or ?

    • @ZonaCero-lo4il
      @ZonaCero-lo4il 8 місяців тому +2

      Porque querían poseer la isla completa, quizás la avaricia y maldad. Pero ya ves como les fue.

    • @maximoarias-dn8kw
      @maximoarias-dn8kw 5 місяців тому

      You a good neighbor we never been wrong . We have nothing against haitians . Some haitians do . Peace n love to both

    • @ypzay
      @ypzay 3 місяці тому

      ​@@ZonaCero-lo4il I read that they wanted to unite the island, but since they needed an economy they tried to get the people to return to the plantations, but although they would have been paid, they viewed it as a return to slavery and were against it.

    • @ZonaCero-lo4il
      @ZonaCero-lo4il 3 місяці тому

      @@ypzay The reality was that, since France had imposed a very high payment on them as a consequence of the human and material losses in that colony, and since they did not have natural resources, and their thirst for racism against the white, they invaded the Dominicans, when they They had only been separated from Spain for just 6 months. They didn't cross before because the Spanish empire was there.
      They invaded them, murdered many Dominicans, forcing their young people into forced labor and paying France with what was produced on Dominican soil.
      Today we Dominicans are going to have to take up arms, because this is not a migration in search of a better life, we are facing a new Haitian invasion, helped by international organizations that are against Hispanicism. They want to put an end to the Dominican, and that is why it is time for us Dominicans to remember what we are made of, and we will win battle number 15 against the Haitians.
      Don't be surprised when you hear that we Dominicans are doing justice for our sovereignty.
      Haitians are very disrespectful and we are going to put them in their place.

  • @Pirate_King_Millz
    @Pirate_King_Millz 2 роки тому +1

    Good video

  • @drhemkc
    @drhemkc Рік тому

    Nice one👌

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому

      esa no está completa, no habló de los tainos ni de caamaño..

  • @xxKissThisXx1016
    @xxKissThisXx1016 8 місяців тому +3

    Op could’ve done a better job explaining what and why Haiti was doing what they were doing
    It could dispel some of the anti Haitian misinformation tht centers the conversation around said occupation which was birthed out of the trujillo era

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      The Dominican independence of 1844 is totally justifiable, many Haitians helped Duarte and the Trinitarios.

    • @xxKissThisXx1016
      @xxKissThisXx1016 Місяць тому

      @ yes but colonization from the Spanish objectively caused more material harm to both sides of the island rather than the liberation of the Dominicans from the Haitians

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      ​@@xxKissThisXx1016 Saint-Domingue 🇨🇵 (French Side) had a much more brutal slavery system, also, the vast majority of slaves in Santo Domingo 🇪🇸 (Spanish Side) in the 18th and 19th century, were slaves purchased in Saint-Domingue and Maroon blacks who escaped from Saint-Domingue and went to Santo Domingo.

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому

      sinple 1937 Trujillo ordenó operación perejil porque los haitianos como siempre estaban ocupando territorio dominicano de la frontera cómo hoy en día..

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому

      ​@@xxKissThisXx1016no creó

  • @kynismos
    @kynismos Рік тому +1

    Turjillo did not establish a "totalitarian" dictatorship. Just an authoritarian dictatorship, quite common in this part of the world.

    •  Рік тому +5

      I think one can argue in good-faith about how totalitarian or not Trujillo was. But I would not place Trujillo as a run-of-the-mill Latin American dictatorship. His use of a single party, labor unions and control of personalistic propaganda (Dios y Trujillo) place him in a different camp, I would say.

  • @barbobrien9318
    @barbobrien9318 2 роки тому +1

    No captions???

  • @bryanbobadilla-b1s
    @bryanbobadilla-b1s 9 місяців тому +1

    Seems like abinader is doing a good job. Right behind bukele

  • @enocmusic486
    @enocmusic486 Рік тому

    it was a costly mistake to give up the western part of the island....Now we arepaying that mistake

    • @jzero1579
      @jzero1579 7 місяців тому

      What do you mean by that?

  • @jennifferpaulino9679
    @jennifferpaulino9679 Рік тому +1

    👏👏👏

  • @xxKissThisXx1016
    @xxKissThisXx1016 8 місяців тому

    Id this from wiki wand

  • @FranceFreeL
    @FranceFreeL 3 роки тому +3

    Haiti?

    •  3 роки тому +3

      Here you are:
      ua-cam.com/video/w-ofdpDqOZ8/v-deo.html

  • @kludgedude
    @kludgedude 3 роки тому +1

    Tropico!

  • @fabricioamaya7233
    @fabricioamaya7233 10 місяців тому +2

    VIVA NICRAGUA

  • @tonywhite383
    @tonywhite383 Рік тому +1

    You claim to be an historian but you don't know the difference between English and British.

    •  Рік тому +4

      I'm well aware of the difference. But the term is commonly used as a synonym, especially for this period.
      www.thesaurus.com/browse/britain
      Meanwhile, English is a common synonym for British because England so dominated Great Britain and later the United Kingdom, that there's no need to specify which part of the UK we're talking about, especially in the context of this video.

    • @tonywhite383
      @tonywhite383 Рік тому +1

      This is just wrong. The terms are not and never have been synonymous, and misuse, no matter how commonly it occurs, does not make them so. For that matter, the terms Commonwealth of Nations, Perfidious Albion and the Commonwealth are not synonyms either. Moreover, that England has always been the dominant partner is immaterial; at the period in history you are discussing the political entity would have been the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, parts do not even come into it.

    •  Рік тому +2

      @@tonywhite383 why is it that people love to fight with dictionaries and the thesaurus?

    • @renzobonilla5467
      @renzobonilla5467 Рік тому +1

      @ so ignorance and incorrect grammar doesn't spread and become the norm

    •  Рік тому +1

      @@renzobonilla5467 if it's in the thesaurus and dictionary, it's by definition not incorrect.

  • @Messiah-vi9mk
    @Messiah-vi9mk 5 місяців тому

    Santana is Haitian 😮

    • @maximoarias-dn8kw
      @maximoarias-dn8kw 5 місяців тому

      He didnt feel that way. We are built different

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      Fake.

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      Fake 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      Lies

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      Pedro Santana's father was a Spaniard 🇪🇸 from the Canary Islands 🇮🇨 called Pedro Santana, and his mother was an indigenous woman from Mexico 🇲🇽 called Petronila Familia, if you look for photos of Pedro Santana on the internet you will clearly see that Pedro Santana was a mestizo (Half Indian and half Spanish) like your average Latin American. Pedro Santana was born in Hincha, a territory that used to be part of the Dominican Republic until the year 1929, where Dominican President Horacio Vásquez and Haitian President Louis Borno made a treaty where the Dominican Republic ceded 4,572 square kilometers of territory to Haiti (8% of the Dominican territory at that time), which meant that Hincha (Lares de Guaba), Las Caobas, San Rafael de la Angostura, San Miguel de la Atalaya and other Dominican towns will pass into Haitian hands. The reason why they made that treaty was because Hincha and the other Dominican towns were filled with illegal Haitian immigrants, who became the majority of the population of those areas, in fact, it was for that reason that years later in October 1937, Dominican President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo carried out a massacre of Haitian criminals, where 5,000 Haitian thieves who tried to invade Dominican territory were murdered with machetes, sticks and bayonets. Not to mention the fact that Pedro Santana is older than Haiti, Pedro Santana was born on June 29, 1801 and Haiti became independent on January 1, 1804, Pedro Santana is older than Haiti 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

  • @SixHundredandThirteen
    @SixHundredandThirteen 3 роки тому +6

    Divide and conquer the whit man says

    • @IvanPlayStation4LiFe
      @IvanPlayStation4LiFe 3 роки тому +7

      DR has many white citizens

    • @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182
      @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 2 роки тому +1

      @@IvanPlayStation4LiFe ... Dominicans are obviously definitely not White nor will ever become White.

    • @letthisworldburn8369
      @letthisworldburn8369 2 роки тому +2

      @@kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 Dominicans are mixed race

    • @tampastorm
      @tampastorm 2 роки тому +6

      @@kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 many Dominicans identify as white, although your average North American white person would not describe them as such

    • @kristofferroberts162
      @kristofferroberts162 2 роки тому

      @@tampastorm then they should take a trip to the northern part of the island the cibao region they’re are plenty of white Dominicans who could pass for white Americans or Europeans

  • @cordellgue518
    @cordellgue518 Рік тому +4

    Anti hatianism corrupts the nation.

  • @neliathen638
    @neliathen638 9 місяців тому

    Maria Trinidad Sanchez is a father founder not a woman but a man. Ramon Matias Mella is the other of three with Juan Pablo Duarte, son of a criolla and a Spaniard.

    •  9 місяців тому

      where are you getting that Maria Trinidad was not a woman?
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Trinidad_Sánchez

  • @atismissyhollywood3261
    @atismissyhollywood3261 10 місяців тому

    U lie about ur history wow

  • @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182
    @kingmoisepicardthefirst5182 2 роки тому +6

    🇭🇹🇲🇫

  • @Messiah-vi9mk
    @Messiah-vi9mk 5 місяців тому

    B.S!!! The whole island was liberated by Haitians in 1804. DR has no land!

    • @maximoarias-dn8kw
      @maximoarias-dn8kw 5 місяців тому

      Never

    • @maximoarias-dn8kw
      @maximoarias-dn8kw 5 місяців тому

      Ya dont get the point

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      The entire island was part and property of Spain 🇪🇦, why do you think the island was and still is called Hispaniola/Española? The Spaniards were on the island since 1492, while the Haitians 🐵 are nothing more and nothing less than the African slaves brought by the French 🇨🇵 in 1697 😂, The Haitians have no connection to the Spanish and even less to the Tainos, on top of that the meaning of the word "Haiti" is only the description of the height of a mountain ⛰️😂, the African slaves brought by the French initially did NOT know the word Haiti, since the vast majority of the Tainos had died, and the few that remained were mixed with Spaniards, it wasn't until Boisrond was hired as Dessalines secretary in July 1803 that they even heard the word "Haiti", because Boisrond had studied in France and read the Santo Domingo/Dominican history which had been translated to French by the 16th century. To continue ruining your dreams, I will ask you another question, why does the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 have a territory of 48,442 Square Kilometers, while Haiti 🇭🇹🚽 has a territory of only 27,750 Square Kilometers? The DR is 20,692 kilometers longer than Haiti, for that same reason, the DR always appears much larger than Haiti on maps. By the way, did you know that most of the deaths of French soldiers in the Haitian revolution were actually caused by viruses and diseases like yellow fever? Therefore, those who truly defeated the French were the 🪰🦟🐜🪳🐝🦠🪱 and not the 🐵🦍🦧💂🏿‍♂️, the funniest thing is that, even with the enormous disadvantage that the French soldiers had, the Haitians couldn't help but lose more soldiers, to give you an idea, Haiti 🇭🇹🐵 lost 200,000 soldiers and France 🇨🇵💂🏻‍♂️lost only 75,000 soldiers (50,000 French soldiers died from diseases such as yellow fever, so Haitian troops only killed 25,000 French soldiers 😂😂😂), on top of that, If the French wanted, they could have re-colonized Haiti, but because they had more important issues to resolve, the French had mercy and left Haiti a debt, which Haiti paid, since if they did not pay it, France would colonize them again without many problems.

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      The Haitians were defeated dozens of times by the Dominicans between the years 1844 to 1856, Santana tortured and crushed your people 😂😂😂😂.

    • @RonaldPineWood8191
      @RonaldPineWood8191 Місяць тому

      Ask your compatriots about what Pedro Santana's troops did to Haitian commander Vicent Jean Degales 👍.

  • @moisepicard5232
    @moisepicard5232 3 роки тому +2

    🇫🇷

  • @dirord3497
    @dirord3497 Місяць тому

    istoria mal contada si dejaste a caamaño fuera y a los tainos..

    • @dirord3497
      @dirord3497 Місяць тому

      si esta hablando de istoria, y de política, si el quiere hablar de istoria debe contarla completa o mejor que no cuente nada, no se puede contar istoria saltando episodios que ocurrieron como los que contó.