Dom Rep. Human Development Index Trend 1980 Present
Source: http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/DOM.html

Year……..Dom Rep……Trend………LatAm……Trend
1980……..0.532………..N/A…………0.582……..N/A
1985……..0.549………..+0.017………0.604……..+0.022
1990……..0.577………..+0.028……....0.624……..+0.020
1995……..0.608………..+0.031………0.650……..+0.026
2000……..0.640………..+0.032………0.680……..+0.030
2005……..0.658………..+0.018………0.703……..+0.023
2010……..0.686………..+0.028………0.728……..+0.025

Looking this objectively the List of Dominican Republic presidents:
1978 – 1982…..Antonio Guzman Fernandez (PRD)
1982 – 1986…..Salvador Jorge Blanco (PRD)
1986 – 1996…..Joaquin Balaguer (PRSC)
1996 – 2000…..Leonel Fernandez (PLD)
2000 – 2004…..Hipolito Mejia (PRD)
2004 – 2012…..Leonel Fernandez (PLD)

What do you think?