As many of you probably don't know, in the last few years there has been a movement towards greater unification of several Central American countries, Dominican Republic included.
A few examples of this would be (each of the following titles are links to their respective articles -all in Spanish, use an online translator if you don't understand them):
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua eliminate visa requirement for Dominican citizens.
Dominican Republic, for the first time in history, achieves the presidency of PARLACEN (Spanish acronym for Central American Parliament, composed of all Central American countries plus the Dominican Republic minus Costa Rica and Panama).
Central American and Dominican presidents approve the creation of a single Central American currency.
There are other agreements that points towards ever greater integration within Central America and the Dominican Republic, such as the unification of customs procedures, free trade agreement blocks (ie. DR-CAFTA), among others.
When you really think about it, the DR is like a Central American country thrown right in the middle of the Caribbean, if only with a bigger and faster developing economy than much of the rest of Central America. One could always argue the racial difference, but the same could be said of various Central American countries too. In the end, the DR does feels like Central America more so than Caribbean, IMO.
Discuss.
A few examples of this would be (each of the following titles are links to their respective articles -all in Spanish, use an online translator if you don't understand them):
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua eliminate visa requirement for Dominican citizens.
Dominican Republic, for the first time in history, achieves the presidency of PARLACEN (Spanish acronym for Central American Parliament, composed of all Central American countries plus the Dominican Republic minus Costa Rica and Panama).
Central American and Dominican presidents approve the creation of a single Central American currency.
There are other agreements that points towards ever greater integration within Central America and the Dominican Republic, such as the unification of customs procedures, free trade agreement blocks (ie. DR-CAFTA), among others.
When you really think about it, the DR is like a Central American country thrown right in the middle of the Caribbean, if only with a bigger and faster developing economy than much of the rest of Central America. One could always argue the racial difference, but the same could be said of various Central American countries too. In the end, the DR does feels like Central America more so than Caribbean, IMO.
Discuss.
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