Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screws to the Dominican Republic. Any trade embargo, no matter how tough on paper, can't work if Santo Domingo's rulers continue winking at the cross-border smuggling that sustains the Haitian usurpers. Sugar exports to the U.S. account for most of the Dominican Republic's wealth, which isn't much. Serious sanctions would threaten an end to that trade if the Dominicans didn't close the border...
...sanctions might have some sort of positive effect, however small, if Haiti were the only nation on the island of Hispanola and could be blockaded by U.S. warships. But the shared border with the Dominican Republic makes the sanctions essentially fruitless, except for smugglers...
...proposal for sharper U.N. action still sets no date for Aristide's return and provides no real muscle to remove a junta whose members are getting rich smuggling in fuel and food from the Dominican Republic, in defiance of the existing U.N. ban and a voluntary OAS trade embargo. Senator Christopher Dodd, an advocate of tougher sanctions who recently returned from a trip to . Haiti, believes new U.N. measures will not be enough. With dissatisfaction over Clinton's Haiti policy mounting in Congress, a senior Administration official admitted that no option, not even military intervention, was being ruled...
LIKE AN ARMY OF ANTS, HAITIANS BY the hundreds scurry up and down the dusty banks of the Massacre River with their gallon plastic jugs. Their day's work done, they head home carrying vessels filled with a precious pink fluid: gasoline smuggled across the river from the Dominican Republic. For the people of Ouanaminthe in northeastern Haiti, the daily trek has become an economic necessity since last October, when the United Nations reimposed a fuel embargo against the country's recalcitrant military rulers...
...embargo is nearly six months old, and the military is still in power -- awash in gasoline and profits, thanks to the porous border with the Dominican Republic. The reality of oil-embargoed Haiti is nowhere more evident than in the capital of Port-au-Prince, which suffers from traffic jams. Though the brightly colored "tap tap" jitneys used by the poor are disappearing as gas prices soar, the military and the monied still manage to race around town in their Range Rovers and Toyotas tanked up on $150 of smuggled fuel. "The embargo exists in name only. They sell gasoline...