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...pretty clear that Leonel Fernndez, 53, and now midway through his second, nonconsecutive term as President of the Dominican Republic, has the vision thing. When developers proposed the country's first modern port during his first term, "he got it right away--'We can be the Singapore of the Caribbean'--his words," recalls Dominican businessman Samuel A. Conde, who is looking to set up a regional logistics center...
...audacious, for a country still rebounding from a colossal banking scandal, the D.R. is trying to germinate a new $800 million regional financial center. "Leonel Fernndez is very much a vision man ... This is exactly the sort of visionary project he absolutely loves," says Gaetan Bucher, a Swiss-Dominican banker and the lead investor in what will essentially be an offshore entity, first trading Latin American debt and later offering a safe haven for private wealth and corporate banking...
...Tunes were living near Boston, in the cities of Peabody and Lynn, when a mutual friend introduced them in the late 1990s. Both were still in their teens, just a few years older than when their mothers had brought them to the United States from their birthplaces in the Dominican Republic...
During the early rounds, on the way to a 7-3 loss to the Dominican Republic, but long before Japan would upend the Cubans in the final, several rowdy fans were causing a disturbance in Puerto Rico’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium...
...International Airport to my temporary home at the Holiday Inn, could easily have been the subject of an episode of Larry David’s HBO series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” There was not a single word of English spoken between my new Venezuelan, Dominican and Puerto Rican teammates. I would venture to say that there were at least five good laughs at the expense of the white kid in the back with the “Harvard Baseball” t-shirt on. I have no doubt that I will spend the next...