And how many Dominicans supported Obama?

he is going to screw you guys over the Haitian thing.

Leo,
How about asking Chavez to import sugar from DR, to make up for the lost revenue. Because of you Leonel, the dominican republic is loosing income everyday. Your lack of LOVE for your countrty is obvious. First we loose the manufacturers, second we loose the turism, now its the export of sugarcane........Cmon leo DR can't make it on drugs alone, soon the USA won't allow airdrops, what is DR going to do then. You can forget about making it up with the SMUGGLING OF HUMANS (DR is barely hanging on to that), the world knows already that DR is the HUB of all types of illegal activity........

Many Dominicans supported Obama!

But this is "free trade" & "competition" to allow consumers to get the "best prices". AND THERE IS A QUIET BACKLASH IN THE US GOV TO THE RD'S ONGOING ROLE IN THE DRUG TRANSPORT (remember good ol' JD told you this was coming).

The competition forces the RD to get it together becuz they are only 3 days by sea from South Florida ports which is a major advantage WE (DOMINICANS) need to leverage better. This leveraging of the RD's IS NOT limited to logistics but a low cost labor & other advantages.

IF we R smart we would plant & produce more sugar in HAITI as well thereby taking advantage of cheap labor & Haiti's status to get even MORE INCENTIVES from both Europe, Canada & the US (all the major markets).

We should not be short sighted by racism BUT only see the color is GREEN!

(con't)
AnthonyC, just doesn't get it....

DO YOU KNOW, the WORLD would give away the store with incentives to get Haiti on its feet AND no one is in a better position to take advantage of low skilled labor in Haiti/DR than the Rep Dom.

Y R we importing solar panels via China given DR-CAFTA & Hispanola's low costs? We also need a national rail (get old trucks & buses off the road while improving the air quality) & energy plan (i.e. a nuclear plant, biofuels, off shore solar fields to collect sunshine!)

If the RD went to the UN to build a nuclear plant (s) on the Haiti/DR borders for cheaper power... then unlike Iraq/Iran , we could get the technical support to make this happen. Your electric bill would only be $20-$30 a month.. think about it!

Other fire power plants would be back-ups to burn fuel/coal along with all the trash sitting on the streets to produce more/cheaper electric power from garbage (and keep it out of landfills).

Wow, the RD Gov doesn't get it!

JD,

You make some good and farout points above; they are certainly meritorious of deep consideration. Leonel, are you listening?

MJEV.

LF is not listening.

Perhaps Costa Rica will import Haitian labor to cut the sugar cane. With a strong Workers permit program, they will undercut any competitive pressures. But either way, this is Obama perhaps lighting the behinds of the recalcitrants in DR that don't want to change their ways. ¡Basta Ya! Export or Die, should be the motto.

Does that mean Haitian won't be needed if the Dominican sugar exporter lose that market?
Etienn your people don't catch a break, damm!
You can now populate Costa Rica is not that bad after all.

DR should be worried. I don't know if this the U.S. trying to get back at DR for their lax attitude on drug trafficking like someone theorized. It's more likely the U.S. just has way too much on their plate and this slipped through the cracks. Costa Rica is about 10 times more stable, and I might be putting it nicely. Costa Rica probably has the luxury to subsidize their sugar crop while they establish a market. To put it in street terms. DR needs to get their game up...

DONT_BE_SILENT,
Costa Rica's government is unlike ours, they see the treats to their economy and society before it even comes, they plan ahead way better then our government does. I'm sure they wouldn't allow ettienc and his clan of mud eaters immigrating there . LOL.

Even though i support it a free and open sugar market will hurt the DR.

CR will not be stupid like DR and allow unskilled, uneducated people to roam around as if their country is theirs. To this day, you rarely ever see black people outside of the coastal areas around El Limon. Their business men are savy, theyll make sure that most of the production is automated, they'll import all the equipment from the US with preferential terms. DR could have done this a long time ago, but these greedy pigs prefer to flood our country with illegals that are causing us all kinds of problems.

@ JD- I agreed with your post 100% and that's coming from a Haitian.

AnthonyC - yeah it's Black Man Time ,Barry is the HNIC ( Head Nigga In Charge) of the Intl conspiricy against DR .Just keep blaming your short coming on others.

anthonyC is cuban american, Pat, so he doesn't have a candle on this funeral. Our island could sink into the ocean as far as he's concerned.

DR doesn't have a monopoly on sugar, and competition is generally good for everyone. DR needs to emerge from colonial thinking, start acting like more progressive nations such as Chile and Costa Rica. We must plan for the future and the day that we could be par with Singapore and others.

Our people have suffered long enough! Let's endeavor to help them emerge from their economic predicament, become a labor an economic resource to contend with. That is my dream, and I hope to see it crystallize before I pass on.

Leonel and Margarita are fundamentally corrupt and self-serving and they are not the answer to our natural destination in world status, and the sooner we get rid of them, the better. I don't care how we do it, whether by peaceful or violent means, but we need positive change and we need it fast. We need a massive infusion of integrity at all levels of our society, then focus on education and progress and set out to attain our goals.

MJEV.

The sugar industry in DR is staffed almost 100% by foreigners and parts of it owned by foreigners as well. I don't understand why everyone is freaking out about it going under. The few Dominicans that have a stake In the industry could have made their business more competitive by mechanizing and negotiating, but they didn't, so it's their loss.

Written by: PatDiamond,

"AnthonyC - yeah it's Black Man Time ,Barry is the HNIC ( Head Nigga In Charge) of the Intl conspiricy against DR .Just keep blaming your short coming on others."


WTF are you talking about?

glomarexplorer wrote:

"DR doesn't have a monopoly on sugar, and competition is generally good for everyone. DR needs to emerge from colonial thinking, start acting like more progressive nations such as Chile and Costa Rica."

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Your right. For DR the recipe or model to follow should be a little less Jamaica, a little more Chile or Costa Rica...

Another thing I've noticed is that latin america, not just talking about the DR, depend too much on raw material exports. Latin American countries sell China and others raw materials, then they sell us industrial goods made with those raw materials, when we could be exporting industial goods made from our own raw materials.

The DR has great quality cacao, but are we exporting chocolate bars all over the world?...NO, we sell our cacao to Hershey's and we import their chocolate bars....sigh. We need to be a lot more competitive, the potential is there.