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...Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send for four of her six children. "I lived on 150 pesos ($48) a month in Santo Domingo," she says. "This is paradise. I am working. I am earning money. I am driving. I am buying things I want. My priority is for the children...
...noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like a Japanese screen: first a sort of rock field, then above it, an orange mountain on which are painted more folding chairs...
...liberation theology movement, a mixture of Christianity and Marxist social activism that has been gaining strength in the region. Among the Pope's complaints about liberation theology is that it tends to pit Roman Catholic laity against the church hier archy. At his stop in Santo Domingo, the Pontiff warned against "considering the poor as a class in struggle, or as a church separated from communion with and obedience to its pastors...
...month earlier, 55 people died in similar riots in the Dominican Republic. Crushed by a $2.5 billion foreign debt and a 1983 trade deficit of $460 million, the government in Santo Domingo was negotiating the second stage of a three-year program of loans totaling about $400 million. Unwisely, it put into effect many of the fund's prescriptions without warning. Over Easter weekend, it shifted the exchange rate on all imports (except petroleum) from one peso per dollar to a free-market rate of 2.5 per dollar. When Dominicans woke up Monday morning, they discovered that many prices...
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo...