Interesting History about Sosua
http://search.archives.jdc.org/mult...NY_AR_DORSA_00003/NY_AR_DORSA_00003_00262.pdf
http://search.archives.jdc.org/mult...NY_AR_DORSA_00003/NY_AR_DORSA_00003_00262.pdf
ha ha, i thought the same electricity AND water!
quite interesting data in this document, including some numbers. i wonder whether pesos or dollars? and does it matter? i was told that for a long time 1 dollar was worth 1 peso, is that true?
hold on, peso was equal with a dollar for decades?
In those days, the foreign debt was "0". Ah, the good old days.Yes. Dictators can do all sorts of things if they want to. Afterwards, according to popular wisdom, the controlling families were able to keep it there for a while. I only got a Cin economics in university so I can't say more than what I was aware of. There's a thread somewhere that deals with the economic upsets since 2008 and some people on that seemed to be very knowledgeable. I'll look for it later.
Sosua's Jewish immigrants came as early as during WWII when the great liberal emancipator Franklin Roosevelt refused to let the "Exodus" ships land or even provision in US ports, but he reportedly forced Trujillo to take them in if he ever wanted to see his bordello in NYC again.
If you like cheese or yogurt, you can thank the CILCA Sosua cooperative for popularizing it in DR due to their industriousness.
With all the support they had from the Jewish Organization what happened with the Jewish settlers? Why didn't the Jewish community grow?
Guzm?n is a fairly common surname in Spain. It's not usually flagged as having Jewish origins though. It's said to be of Visigoth origin. I think the Sosua Jewish family names that are still around include Roth, Katz and Neumann.But Jewish features are still evident amongst the people of Sosua. I'd attach some images here, but I'm too lazy to learn how. Just look around though. Even some of the names I think . . . Guzzman sounds a bit jewish for example.