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Problem is that the past government went on a debt-taking spree. The present government has an agreement with the IMF to pay the debt. Bottom line is that the government likes the appreciated peso because then the dollars it needs to pay the debt cost less.
What this means is that the DR is not the bargain it was; not as expensive as other destinations in the Caribbean, but no longer a bargain.