If Castro was overthrown how would that effect the DR?

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ltsnyder

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I'm currious for people to contrast between life in the DR and life in Cuba. While Cuba is poor I hear they never lack Healthcare, any comments? How would the removal of a COmmunist Government in Cuba effect the DR? In soome ways it may make the DR poorer, because as some others stated before, basic fruit exports is >one of< the only thriving businesses today (along with tourism) and both would see additional competition from Cuban companies if Cuba went to a free market system.


Guess I'm just soliciting for thoughts. . . .

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Cuba would not effect the DR overnight, they already compete in tourism and in crops as well as many other areas.

I think the biggest changes would be in illegal areas. Drug trafficking would rise overnight. Corruption and get rich quick businesses would pop-up.

Just look at some of the ex-Soviet countries. Corruption and Mafia in places like Georgia make the DR look like Finland.
 

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Drug trafficing wouldn't increase. It would just be spread out more. Right now it is centralized under Fidel and his cronnies.

Healthcare is available to all in Cuba if you have Hard Dollars$$$$. If not. Hey too bad.

There would be a change in tourism patterns. Cuba would get more American tourist driving up prices. DR would get the Cheap(Frugal?) tourists that would stop going to Cuba.
 

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Es verdad....

I agree with the view point that Cuba's opening up to a free market system would have a direct (not overnight) impact on the DR. The socialist rule has yielded a robust educational system, head and shoulders above the Dominican educational system. So, in the short term, yes DR would not have much to worry about if Cuba opens to the free markets, but in the long term Cuba would gain a competitive advantage over the Dominican Republic: 1. Because of the political and economic clout of Cuban Americans as a community in the US; 2. Because of the aforementioned strength of the Cuban educational system, in my opinion.

ps i am dominican, it is isnt dr bashing
 

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Lee nothing personal but this one always really grates on me like fingernailson a blackboard. Affect and effect are not interchangeable.

You could have asked "What Effect This Will Have on the DR" or "How Will This Affect the DR". Either of those are correct. ".. how would that effect [sic] the DR?" is not.

As to how this would affect the Dominican Republic I have very little opinion. One might hope over time that a free Cuba might provide a very close and stable trading partner forall sorts of new ventures. Which would have some very beneficial effects on the DR's economy.

Tom (aka XR)
 
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ltsnyder

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Only asking because it looks like . . .

The US will probably be invading Cuba soon. Bush administration still see war as a relatively bloodless activity, so they'll clean up some things they have wanted too for a while, Cuba being one of them.

Well, I stand corrected, it might be a simple toppleing of the governemnt through non-military means.

As for a trading partner, how much trade does Jamaca do with the DR? Virtually none, I don't expect much more from Cuba. Cuba like the DR is a >relatively< unpopulated country, so I don't expect an exchange of produce any time soon.

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Invasion????

Why would the US invade Cuba? Where have you gotten this info? If the cuban community here in Florida had any clue that would happen they would all be rejoicing. And let me tell you everything here in Miami is very calm.
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XanaduRanch

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Oh please.

The US won't be invading Cuba. There's no need. He'll die eventually. Unless a Democrat is elected in the states but then they won't call it an invasion, it'll be a 'peacekeeping mission' like Haiti or Bosnia. At least we know what a war is and aren't afraid to call it that.

As to comparing Jamaica and Cuba as trading partners, that's another nonsequitur. Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico not only share a common language, Spanish, but a common dialect of Spanish. Jamaica shares little heritage or culture with the DR. Even less than Haiti and Haiti is on the same island.

Tom (aka XR)
 
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