By E. Matibag
What might the island of Hispaniola appear like if seen as a loosely hooked up approach? that's the query Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint seeks to reply to because it surveys the insular area shared via Haiti and the Dominican Republic all through their parallel histories. For underneath the common story of hostilities, the systemic standpoint unearths a lesser-known, "unitarian" narrative of interdependencies and reciprocal affects shaping each one country'sidentity. In view of the sociocultural and financial linkages connecting thetwo nations, their family members must resemble now not quite a bit acockfight (the traditional metaphor) as a serial and polyrhythmic counterpoint.
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There he found the already established community composed of freebooters and pirates. From this home base Ogeron could affirm the French presence in Saint-Domingue once and for all. Ogeron built up the economy, finding the wherewithal to send a punitive expedition against the Spanish and take command of Santiago and Puerto Plata, albeit for a short while. 45 Every day during this period, a ship of the Companie de la Providence et de l’Association de l’Îsle (founded in 1613) dropped anchor at the harbors of the nascent French colony.
In 1630, French and English privateers were forced to evacuate San Cristóbal (St. Kitts) by the flotilla commanded by Don Fradique Alvarez de Toledo. The displaced pirates looked for another base of operations; they found an ideal site for resettling on the southern coastal strip of the 69-square-mile island the Spanish called la Tortuga. 37 Peaceful, that is, until the authorities in Santo Domingo sent the expedition of Captain Ruy Fernández de Fuenmayor to remove them in 1635. 38 With Tortuga evacuated, Fuenmayor’s force then returned to the colonial capital, making it easy then for the pirates who escaped with their lives to return to the little island and re-establish there in 1636.
41 The Geography of Hispaniola A quick reconnaissance of Hispaniola’s physical terrain will help to ground discussion of the island’s human topography and the interrelations of its two countries. This descriptive “fly-over” will bring into relief relevant geographical features shared by the two countries. Lying southeast of Cuba and to the west of Puerto Rico; in size similar to the state of Maine, the island “Columbus loved best” measures 30,528 square miles, making it the second largest of the Caribbean.