Tag: Dominican Republic

“Hay que aprovechar la luz” / “We have to take advantage of electricity”

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La electricidad regresó a las 7:00 de la mañana, desde las ocho de la noche anterior. Mi vecina Sonia me saluda a eso de las 9:32 a.m., cuando me dice que ya había planchado 20 piezas, lavado la ropa de todos los de su casa (una familia de 5) y tenía puesta la estufa para cuando llegara su esposo e hijo de la construcción. Con sudor entre cuello y pecho, se sentó cerca de un abanico de piso.

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Survival near the riverbed of Blanco

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As you approach the ridge of Blanco (Bonao, Dominican Republic), the virginity and pureness of the 600 meter mountain strokes your urban sensibility with layers of radiant vegetation and cascades that emerge from the rocks that put up this unique landscape. Once arrived at the Río Blanco Ecotourism Project, technology vanishes from your eyes while there is no escape from nature.

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“We’re not identified as traitors of our homeland in Santa María”

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The Jesuit Eduardo García Tamayo proposes to consolidate the hospitality in Dominicans even if they are labeled as “traitors” together with the Company of Jesus.

The controversial sentence No. 168-13 issued by the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic has generated a great debate within the nautical boundaries of the country and abroad. With positions for and against, the Centro Bonó and projects of the Company of Jesus in Latin America and the Caribbean have developed a social media campaign named “Hospitality with the migrant population,” launched in the Dominican capital on January 20th.

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