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Karel De Gucht European Commissioner For Trade EU – Latin America/ Caribbean ...
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For the Caribbean for instance, traditional big earners were hit hard – tourism, sugar and banana exports, and remittances. Mexico, very exposed to the United States, was also severely impacted. However, to a large degree these direct impacts have now ...

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Dominicans in US Could Decide Presidential Election in the Dominican Republic
Huffington Post
One of the presidential candidate, Danilo Medina, is putting some attention to this population outside the island, that through their money remittance, represent the third engine that drives the Dominican economy. Danilo Medina is the official ...

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Central America Seeks to Buffer Effects of Crisis in Europe
Inter Press Service
The presidents of the central banks of Central America and the Dominican Republic, meanwhile, agreed early this year to adopt measures to ensure financial liquidity, create mechanisms for monitoring risk management and overseeing financial systems, ...

New York Could Decide the Dominican Republic's Presidential Elections
Fox News
Many Dominicans living abroad send remittances to family and friends in the Dominican Republic. That financial support often impacts how their relatives on the island vote, Sepúlveda says. “The money here influences how people are going to vote there,” ...

Explainer: Expatriate Voting Laws in Latin America
AS/COA Online
Some countries, such as the Dominican Republic and Peru, have significant portions of voters living in Europe and the United States, giving more political clout to expats. Other countries, including Colombia and Ecuador, permit overseas residents to ...

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Austerity and Democracy
Dominican Today
However this was due in a large part to continued strong growth in the Dominican Republic and Haiti based on post hurricane reconstruction and aid flows. It suggested that growth elsewhere in the region will be more subdued as remittances and tourism ...

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A Have and Have-Not Issue
New York Times
Countries as diverse as Israel, the Dominican Republic and China now consider their emigrants to be assets abroad rather than deserters. The US State Department effectively ignores that part of the naturalization oath that calls for abjuring all other ...

Dominican Republic election: Issues and candidates
BBC News
But many voters remember that during his presidency, the Dominican Republic experienced a major financial crisis. Mr Mejia's campaign has also suffered from his verbal gaffes. During a trip to New York to court the Dominican-American vote, ...

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