It's the "Dog & Pony Show"!

Let brag about our credentials & tell funny stories and sip a spot of tea...

Let not talk about real issues of poverty, jobs, fair trade @ reasonable prices for all. BUT especially let's NOT talk about the drug trade & RD Gov corruption. I think the US DEA would like this type of party because there a lot of "form over substance"! NO real results-oriented stuff.

For example, THERE IS A MAJOR DRUG SHIPMENT coming through my barrio of ENSANCE CAONABO (los platanitos near Cibao Stadium & Children's Hospital) in Santiago in the first half of next month (March) from Columbia (that's the word on the street with the Tigueres but of course I am NOT totally informed of the exact date).

But, I am certain the Columbian Ambassador did not ask (does not care) about this (nor did any US officials present care to ask especially if they work for US DEA).

Just doing my part as a good Christian (but I can NOT force-feed US DEA to do their jobs).

"Crispina Gómez (Cabo Verde)..."
WTF? Cape Verde is a TINY archipielago in West Africa. Why would they need an embassy in the DR...?

In the global scale, DR is pretty insignificant itself, even though some of us would delude ourselves into according our beloved Quisqueya a greater level of importance than it deserves. We ourselves have diplomatic offices in places where we have insignificant business or cultural interest, just so a president could reward one of its cronies. Therefore, let's not get carried away and be too hard on the tiny Cape Verde islands.

good we have an Australian and Chilean ambassador i always wanted to visit those countries :D

Trying to say that if the DR does not have an ambassador in a country, dominicans can not visit that country?

no, i didn't say that , i just said it will facilitate our entrance to those countries! and grow our important relationships with them!! :)

glomarexplorer,

C'mon, Cape Verde? What's next, Kiribati...?

Jaci,

"C'mon, Cape Verde? What's next, Kiribati...?"

Just as Hitler summoned his cartographer during WWII to inquire about this country that had suddenly declared war on Germany and he didn't know anything about it, and upon realizing its insignificant size and remote geographic location demanded DR's removal from map, there are people in far away and important lands questioning DR's present days relevance and need to have diplomatic representation.

So, Jaci, don't be too hasty to diminish importance of the Cape Verde islands because, in global scale, we are not that much more important, although we would sure like to suppose so. One thing for sure, Cape Verde residents probably enjoy a better and more honest gov't than we do, and same could possibly be argued about its citizens.

Cape Verde, I knew some one from there.. he was morenito.. Dated Dominican Girls and was real smart he was in my unit. The people I have met in the military.
But, yeah!!! Capo Verde c'mon.
Some of them Have Spanish ancestry like those of La Isla Canaria