Ooookay!
Oh...
Aha...
Right. Let me quote myself from my original post:
"The PM was one of the main reasons for why the DR was not accepted into the CARICOM as a full member".
Maybe its me, but I don't see how what you said and what I said are in conflict. :surprised
Interesting...
Right, but I don't know where I have even mentioned what type of a relationship CARICOM consist of.
Plus, maybe its me, but I have a hard time understanding how something that is not a trading agreement can be a common market.
This is no secret.
And in much of the Caribbean distinctions are made between blacks and mulattoes, despite in some countries the mulatto category is much more exclusive than in others. In any case, what is the majority of the DR? I think only Martinique resembles much more closely DR's racial demographics and even there its a little different. I always assumed this was an underlying issue.
The DR was not a full member of CARICOM (never has been), so I don't see why a decision made by a country that is not even a full member would be a problem for its acceptance. This is assuming that the CARICOM group doesn't uses any excuse to prevent full membership to the DR, as they have done since the 1970s.
Care to explain how the CARICOM countries came to the conclusion to not support the USA? Unilaterally? Multilaterally?
I want to incline towards the second one, but you probably know more than I do about this. In any case, if it was multilaterally and all of them voted against it, then why would anyone think that DR fully integrated into CARICOM would be able to go against the multilaterally decided decision of CARICOM?
Some how the Central Americans didn't had any issues in accepting the DR in the Central American Parliament and neither have any other group of nations with whom we have signed agreements with.
This is obvious, but the DR also has the ability to benefit the most considering that its precisely with other Caribbean countries that the DR has the greatest trading advantages, some of which are not fulfilling because these islands keep using any excuse to put a roadblock.
That's precisely my point with the added bonus that CARICOM countries are not internationally condemned and continually derided for not allowing the free flow of Haitian migrants. Do we really need a recap of what the DR goes through the moment we even think about controlling the border? I don't think so, it should be clear. All those CARICOM countries should open the gates to Haitian migration, at least until the Haitian colonies make up 7 to 10% of the population of each island. Then they should control it and then they have a true basis from which to criticize the DR concerning the Haitian migration problem. The percentages are not coming out of thin air, in case you are wondering.
There is no other group of people in the Caribbean that understand the Haitian dilemma better than Dominicans. Everyone else simply theorizes, probably based on what they notice is happening to the DR, but I think they would get much more credibility with a little experience under their belt. Open the gates and close them once they hit 7% of the population. Then begin the attacks against the DR. Its not much to ask, especially with the small populations of these islands (except for Trinidad and Jamaica -I'm not sure if Jamaica is part of CARICOM, but I'm assuming it is) the experiment would probably last a few months.