“The media are the only power which the Quisqueyan People has to prevent that infamy, together with the Nation’s active forces”
The Nation and the People will sooner or later receive that hard blow of treason to the Duartean Ideal if we don’t stop it in time.
The military of the SEFA, together with 15 other public and private institutions, initiated a project to give the name “LA DOMINICANA” to the Mother Country and to the nationality of the People, abusing the goodness and patriotism of the leaders of the Instituto Duartiano.
Meanwhile, the Dominican Government is preparing, paving the way for this project, the following:
1) Investing thousands of pesos among 150 Dominican historians so they rewrite the “COMPENDIUM OF DOMINICAN HISTORY”.
2) Expedite the “revision” to the Magna Charta to keep the People from introducing the name of Quisqueya and pave the way to introduce the irregular adjective made noun “Dominicana” as the name of the Mother Country.
3) Suspiciously introducing a new song in the background recordings in the National Palace telephone central, where “DOMINICANA” as the name of the Mother Country is already mentioned.
The media are the only power which the Quisqueyan People has to prevent that infamy, together with the Nation’s active forces.
For several years we‘ve been basing the theory that the word which corresponds to Duarte’s Mother Country is Quisqueya and that our real identity, not loaned by the Spanish Crown, for the People’s nationality is Quisqueyano.
We’ve made hundreds of attempts so this issue is included or discussed in the Constitution and we’ve proposed the Quisqueya word would simply need to be added in the main title of that document in the following manner: “Constitution of the Dominican Republic of Quisqueya.” In addition, to include its identity in the appropriate places.
We hadn’t realized where the resistance to our proposal resided until discovering the insensible and cruel campaign this week, which we can demonstrate as silly, which distances itself from the true Duartean Ideal and betrays the struggle for free a Mother Country, sovereign and independent from all foreign power and influence, which so many heroes and martyrs of the People have waged since its independence on February 27, 1844.
We have the solution to solve the great confusion in which since the date of independence from Haiti, Dominicans have been submitted to with regard to the following issues:
THE NAME OF THE ISLAND
THE REGIONAL IDENTITY OF THE TOWNS WHICH OCCUPY THE ISLAND
THE NATIONAL IDENTITY OF THE TOWNS WHICH OCCUPY THE ISLAND WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO NAME THAT WHICH BELONGS TO THEM
THE STATE AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THE STATE IS PROPERTY OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY
We have been “Dominican” because in 1621 the Spanish Crown decided to issue a Royal Cedula for the inhabitants of the Island of Santo Domingo.
We are proud of our history and for having been and continue being Dominican regionally and culturally.
Upon achieving Independence, we stopped being Dominican, but Duarte and the Trinitarians weren’t allow to choose and submit the new name for the Mother Country, which has left the State orphaned.
The hour has come to adopt our true national identity, so that legally the People and the Mother Country are the true owners of the State denominated Dominican Republic. We’re willing to prove that we’re right and convey the truth if given the opportunity and God allows.
Valiant Quisqueyanos let us raise our shout in protest against losing our anthem!
COSME EZEQUIEL PEREZ, Naples, Florida,
JIMMY VALDEZ, Ridgewood, New York,
ROBERTO ALONSO, Naples, Florida, (Cuban)
ADALBERTO FRANCES, Santo Domingo
MIGUEL ALFAU, Santo Domingo
FEDERICO MEDRANO, Santo Domingo
RUTH ALVAREZ, Santo Domingo
RUBEN DARIO MANCEBO M. Santo Domingo
MARITZA NIEVES. Santo Domingo
MARIO RODRIGUEZ ALMONTE Santo Domingo
GENARO SILVESTRE, La Romana, República
CRISTINA DELGADO, France
RAMONA GOMEZ DE QUIST, Norway
JIMMY VALDEZ, Ciudad de Ridgewood, New York
DORA PARIENTE PEÑA, Peru
Written by: Cacique, 4 Aug 2009 11:23 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Yet another try at changing the name of Dominican Republic (dogs of God).
From: United States, Brooklyn
I agree to change the name but not to Quisqueya, sounds too tribal... "Dominican or Dominicana" is too religious for me... We need a secular name! Something from our Hero's such as Duarte. Francia is named after the Franks... DR should perhaps be named after Duarte or Bosch or another hero!
Written by: pelaut, 5 Aug 2009 7:46 AM
From: United States
how about "Gran Apagone"?
Written by: dagtan, 5 Aug 2009 9:56 AM
From: United States
The country should worry about feeding and educating its people so they can learn their history before attempting to rewrite it. Most Dominicans here in the US and there in the DR have no idea who they are or their ancestral history. I was there for 20 days during the month of July and spoke with many university students from the Santiago regional and private universities and let me tell you the country is in trouble. I was almost convince that a Bronx Science High School seniors is far more prepapred than a university senior at least in Santiago. This assessment includes the private Madre y Maestra which people often brag about being one of the best in country. I collected more than 100 pages worth of interviews with students from different institutions. My goal as a high school principal here in NYC is to create an exchange program in order to import Dominican educators to work in mostly Domincan areas around the city. The educational system needs lots of help in DR.
Written by: oupala07, 8 Aug 2009 10:29 AM
From: Canada
At least, we, Haitians, even poor, know who we are, because we've decided, since january 1st 1804 and without ambiguity that our country's will revert back to its indians ones and they will be for ever: HAITI, QUISQUEYA AND BOHIO.
So, my advice to you in the East is to make your mind up and decide whether you want to stay Dominicans, Hispagnolans, Santo Dominguans de Quisqueya or, simply put, to abandon all these names and adopt proudly back the title of " subjects of the King of Spain."
If you were serious about having a name for youselves and all the following generations, you should have done so since 1844. After more than a century and a half, you feel now so wealthy, developped and powerful, that you can allow yourself to trash the real liberators of this island, to humiliate them under the watchful eyes of the planet, and to arrogantly decide, on their back and behalf, what is good for it, like for instance, taking the decision to change unilaterally its name.
Written by: dagtan, 8 Aug 2009 10:13 PM
From: United States
My friend oupala07, it is not that we do not know who we are in terms of our location, but it is the struggle of the Dominican people in dealing with their ancestral history. If it was up to the Dominican people we will revert back to the king of Spain because of our shame in the blackness that we have inherited from our african past. We are a mulatto's country, with 86% of our population made up of mulattoes and blacks. The remaining 14% is made up largely by whites and to the lesser extend mestizos. This is the issue that needs to be tackled in the Dominican Republic and then hopefully something can happen. finally, I hear you on the Dominican arrogance, you are not the only who thinks about us in such terms. I would have to say that it is not arrogance, but a desire to show others what you have. Dominicans love to show off and that at times is perceived as arrogance.
From: Dominican Republic, La Union
I think, both Haiti and the Dominican Republic should get together to rename the whole Island since till even today the name for the entire island is still a colonial adoptive name.
Take away the known nonsense resentment and hypocritical ambiguity that exist between the two nation, neither can deny that they know what the original name for the Island is. The original native names for the Island is what both nation should find a common ground to agree on.
Haiti: Meaning "Country Of High Mountains."
Quisqueya: Meaning "Fruitful & Prosperous land."
Bohio: Meaning "Homeland" thus our homes.
From: Dominican Republic, La Union
The island of Hispaniola, anciently known as Haiti to its aboriginal inhabitants, is occupied jointly by the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti.
This struck me as viscerally curious. That the FACT in question is, the ancient name of Haiti, is one that I have known since..... well, a long time; but people, both Dominicans and Haitians have never seem to take the time to think about it much and have ever stop to notice the reality due to to their known hatred and resentments for each other. Yet have accepted and embreced the name given tothe island by invading imperialist europeans (Spain, France or others).
From: Dominican Republic, La Union
First neither Dominicans and Haitians can deny what the true name of the Island as a whole is. It was and is stil and perhaps will always to any hypothetical left indigenous natives be Haiti.
The Spanish (not inhabitants) came and changed the name to Santo Domingo, then later Hispaniola (meaning little Spain). Eventually in 1697 there is the formal division of the island into Santo Domingo the Spanish version and Saint-Domingue the French version which were both were the very same name only different language one translate for the other.
The Dominican side has several fluxuations of name over the years, and, as this group knows only too well, on Jan. 1, 1804, Saint-Domingue ceases to exist and modern Haiti was reborn.
P.S: Thus in retrospect, the new then founding Black Republic have shown respect and did in a tribute sense a favor to the island in whole by still keeping the name the natives originally had for it and did not name it some African rooted name.
From: Dominican Republic, La Union
I think every well schooled scholar and well educated child orperson in both Haiti and Dominican Republic know all this, but it seems bi-curiously that it is easy to forget and ignore that there was a full circle for at least this 1/3 the island of Hispaniola from Haiti to Saint-Domingue and then back to Haiti again. Where in the native tongue of the indigenous natives that inhabited the Island before the imperialist invading conquerors (Spain and France) came does the word Dominicana, Dominican exists? Exactly!
From: United States
My best guess is that the leaders were really ambivalent about achieving real intependence from Spain or wanted to maintain their allegiance to Spain or simply become a commonwealth of Spain. They didn't want to cut their umbilical cord with Spain totally. Dominican Republic was their way of expressing this ambivalence. Some even called it Spanish Haiti which is another instance of the ambivalence. Haitians unequivocally severed our umbilical cord to France immediately naming our Newly Independent country Haiti in the true tradition of the aboriginals before the European invasion and colonization. Look, two hundred years later, Dominicans are still ambivalent about what to name their country. Unfortunately, the issue is not about the name; it is rather a deep identity crisis going on in the very soul of the nation itself. They have to wholeheartedly accept both their European and African Ancestry. That's what they have to solve first and foremost.
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So, my advice to you in the East is to make your mind up and decide whether you want to stay Dominicans, Hispagnolans, Santo Dominguans de Quisqueya or, simply put, to abandon all these names and adopt proudly back the title of " subjects of the King of Spain."
If you were serious about having a name for youselves and all the following generations, you should have done so since 1844. After more than a century and a half, you feel now so wealthy, developped and powerful, that you can allow yourself to trash the real liberators of this island, to humiliate them under the watchful eyes of the planet, and to arrogantly decide, on their back and behalf, what is good for it, like for instance, taking the decision to change unilaterally its name.
I think, both Haiti and the Dominican Republic should get together to rename the whole Island since till even today the name for the entire island is still a colonial adoptive name.
Take away the known nonsense resentment and hypocritical ambiguity that exist between the two nation, neither can deny that they know what the original name for the Island is. The original native names for the Island is what both nation should find a common ground to agree on.
Haiti: Meaning "Country Of High Mountains."
Quisqueya: Meaning "Fruitful & Prosperous land."
Bohio: Meaning "Homeland" thus our homes.
This struck me as viscerally curious. That the FACT in question is, the ancient name of Haiti, is one that I have known since..... well, a long time; but people, both Dominicans and Haitians have never seem to take the time to think about it much and have ever stop to notice the reality due to to their known hatred and resentments for each other. Yet have accepted and embreced the name given tothe island by invading imperialist europeans (Spain, France or others).
The Spanish (not inhabitants) came and changed the name to Santo Domingo, then later Hispaniola (meaning little Spain). Eventually in 1697 there is the formal division of the island into Santo Domingo the Spanish version and Saint-Domingue the French version which were both were the very same name only different language one translate for the other.
The Dominican side has several fluxuations of name over the years, and, as this group knows only too well, on Jan. 1, 1804, Saint-Domingue ceases to exist and modern Haiti was reborn.
P.S: Thus in retrospect, the new then founding Black Republic have shown respect and did in a tribute sense a favor to the island in whole by still keeping the name the natives originally had for it and did not name it some African rooted name.