Presents a report from the Dominican Republic by the author which concerns the efforts of protesters who are against the building of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in Santo Domingo because they see it as one more instance of exploiting the poor. Pope John Paul II will make a visit to the...
A massive monument to the explorer, the Columbus Lighthouse, opened in 1992 in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico commemorates Discovery Day on Nov. 19, marking the day Columbus landed there. Ralph Arellanes, chairman of the activist group Hispano Round Table of New Mexico,...
Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic Faro a Colon (Columbus Lighthouse) The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else. La Isabela, Dominican Republic La Isabela Columbus' failed colony in the New World. Get...
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Reports on the construction of a lighthouse in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, in honor of Christopher Columbus. Project of Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer; Problems with the city's supply of electricity; Tourism projects and economic conditions in the country.EBSCO_Asp...
While the Dominican Republic constructed a Lighthouse to Columbus in Santo Domingo, as we examined in Chapter 5, the Haitian cultural politics did not engage with the event, not even in reaction against their Hispanic neighbor. This is quite understandable if we think of the country at the ...
Presents a report from the Dominican Republic by the author which concerns the efforts of protesters who are against the building of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in Santo Domingo because they see it as one more instance of ...
Columbus is celebrated in Latin America, too. A massive monument to the explorer, the Columbus Lighthouse, opened in 1992 in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico commemorates Discovery Day on Nov. 19, marking the day Columbus landed there. ...
(now in theDominican Republic). AfterSpainceded Hispaniola to France, the remains were moved toHavana, Cuba, in 1795 and returned to Sevilla in 1898. In 1877, however, workers at the cathedral in Santo Domingo claimed to have found another set of bones that were marked as those of ...
(nearCap-Haïtien, Haiti) may be close to the original site, and a Taino chieftain’s settlement has been identified nearby. Concepción de la Vega, which Columbus founded on the secondvoyage, may be the presentLa Vega Vieja, in theDominican Republic. Excavations at the site of La Isabela...