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unusual facts about The Dominican Republic



Amigos de las Américas

AMIGOS has expanded to many different countries including Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru, though some countries do not currently have active projects.

She Shot Me Down

Sinatra would bring this medley to his concert set-list with much success, evident especially during the live concerts filmed in The Dominican Republic for Concert for the Americas.


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2013 Pan American Women's Handball Championship

This was the second time that this tournament was held in the Dominican Republic after the 2007 Pan American Women's Handball Championship.

Aída Cartagena Portalatín

She later moved to the capital of the Dominican Republic where she earned her Doctorate in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

Alfa Romeo 1900

One-off specials where numerous from the famous Bertone BAT series of aerodynamic studies, to an infamous sci-fi like Astral spider designed by Carrozzeria Boneschi for Rafael Trujillo the dictator of the Dominican Republic.

Amaury Martínez

For the 2008 season of the Dominican Republic League, he repeated with his team the Championship and the "MVP" award.

Benjamin de Menil

Beginning with Super Uba, who with de Menil's help rose from the obscurity of a New York subway platform to headlining at major Latin and World Music festivals, de Menil went on to work with some of the Dominican Republic's finest musicians.

Catey

Samaná El Catey International Airport, airport under construction in the Dominican Republic

Cheng Fei

In April 2012, Cheng competed at the Zibo World Cup in her home country, qualifying second into the vault final behind the Dominican Republic's Yamilet Peña Abreu.

Christopher Hartley

In a letter to the directors of Tate & Lyle dated July 10, 2009, he asserted that human rights violations continue in the Dominican Republic, which include "daily and systematic disregard for fundamental human dignity in the forms of “statelessness” (and its inherent lack of civil liberties), human trafficking, extreme poverty, child labor, racial discrimination, lack of education and healthcare, and general squalor.

Cocolo

In the Dominican Republic, "Cocolo" is used only to refer to Caribbean descendants who came to the cities of San Pedro de Macorís, Puerto Plata, and other areas to work on the docks and sugar cane plantations at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Consuelo

Consuelo, San Pedro de Macorís, a municipality in the San Pedro de Macorís province of the Dominican Republic

Diamond Crown Maximus

Diamond Crown Maximus (or Maximus by Diamond Crown) is a super premium cigar brand handmade by Tabacalera A. Fuente in the Dominican Republic for the J.C. Newman Cigar Company.

Eduardo Estrella

He served as Secretary of State for Public Works and Communications of the Dominican Republic during the second term 1991–94, of President Joaquín Balaguer and also he served as Senator for the province of Santiago de los Caballeros during the period 1994–98.

Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo

During his tenure in New York the Dominican Republic was elected for the first time as member of the Executive Board of UN Women (2011–2014) and to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC, 2012–2013).

Giovanni Ferrofino

During the Second World War, according to Gary Krupp of the Pave the Way Foundation, he personally acted on the direct orders of Pius XII twice a year to obtain visas for Jews arriving from Portugal to the Dominican Republic.

Gonzalo Frechilla

Frechilla formerly played in the Dominican Republic for Bauger and in Argentina for Newell's Old Boys and Nueva Chicago.

Guayabal

Guayabal, Azua, a town in the Azua province of the Dominican Republic

Guayabal, Independencia, a town in the Independencia province of the Dominican Republic

Hans Hertell

Hertell is also involved with the operations and investments of the Barrick Gold Corporation in the Dominican Republic.

Islam in the Dominican Republic

Although the majority of the population is Roman Catholic, Muslims have formed local organizations such as the Círculo Islámico de República Dominicana (The Islamic Circle of Dominican Republic) and the Islamic Center of the Dominican Republic (located in Miami).

José Agustín Silvestre de los Santos

In December 2011, José Rijo, the Cincinnati Reds pitcher who won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1990, was subpeonaed by the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering Unit in relation to his business dealings with Castro, who was also a hotel and advertising agency owner, and for any information about Silvestre's murder.

José Carlos Lozano Rendón

He has presented on his research in conferences in Mexico, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, the United States, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

Julia Alvarez

Released in 1994, her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, has a historical premise and elaborates on the death of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

Kerubanda

Kerube Ortiz, the band's leader and accordionist, was born in Santiago Rodriguez in the Dominican Republic.

Kidnapped for Christ

Escuela Caribe was a boarding school for "troubled" teens near the mountain community of Jarabacoa in the Dominican Republic owned by Marion, Indiana-based New Horizons Youth Ministries, an evangelical organization.

Luperón

Gregorio Luperón, a President of the Dominican Republic in the 19th Century

Michel Domingue

Septimus Rameau also led negotiations with the President of the Dominican Republic Ignacio María González.

Michel François

When the Dominican Republic deported him for plotting another coup d'etat in Haiti, François landed in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Mirta Roses Periago

Roses Periago has been awarded honorary professorships at the Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública in Granada, Spain; the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia; the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, Ecuador; the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua en León; the Universidad de San Marcos, Peru; and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic.

Miss Dominican Republic 2004

The chosen winner will represent the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant which was held in Quito.

Montas

Juan Temístocles Montás (born 1950), Minister of Economy, Planning and Development of the Dominican Republic, economist and academic

Moritz Richard Schomburgk

His older brother, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 - 11 March 1865), carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies (in which Moritz Richard participated) and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.

Myrciaria floribunda

In the Dominican Republic it is associated with the eastern town of San Pedro de Macorís which has a large population of Eastern Caribbean descent.

Nouel

Maimón, Monseñor Nouel, town in the Monseñor Nouel province of the Dominican Republic

Plantain Garden

Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, along the south side of the island of Hispaniola, where the Dominican Republic and Haiti are

Ples Gilmore

While in the military, Gilmore was involved in four major wars or conflicts: The Berlin Crisis of 1961, Vietnam War 1963-1973, Panama Canal Zone Conflict, January 1964, and the Dominican Republic Conflict 1965.

Plus Ultra

Plus Ultra Brigade, a brigade of troops from five Spanish speaking countries including Spain, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador, which served in the Iraq War

Rob Cordemans

During the first round of the tournament held at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cordemans entered two separate games against the Dominican Republic in middle relief.

Rudy Hernandez

Rudy Hernández (born 1931), Major League Baseball pitcher from the Dominican Republic

Salada

Laguna Salada, a municipality (municipio) of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic

Samaná Province

Samaná has numerous beaches, and with the 6 November 2006 opening of the new Samaná El Catey International Airport, it is bound to become one of major tourist destinations in the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo real

For later currencies of the Dominican Republic, see Dominican peso

Troncoso

Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha, an intellectual and President of the Dominican Republic

Universidad Central del Este

UCE was founded at a time in which the Dominican Republic only counted with a handful of other universities nationwide, which included the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), founded by Pope Paul III in 1538; the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (now Pontifical) founded in Santiago in 1962; and the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), founded in 1966.

Vladimir Guerrero

In an interview with Yahoo! Sports, he attributed this to helping his grandfather pull cows home barehanded as a young boy in the Dominican Republic.

Yegor Lavroff

So far a President of the Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández enjoyed the support of the "ELPA" during the last presidential campaign in the country, as well as a current Member of Parliament Gerardo Bogaert.

Currently Lavrov lives in the Dominican Republic, while also operates businesses in Miami, Florida, United States; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid, Spain; Panama City, Panama; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Pétionville, Haiti; and Lima, Peru.