The Dominican Republic: Latin America's latest economic "miracle"?

From: Dollars & Sense | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Michael, Marie | Copyright information

LATIN AMERICA'S LATEST ECONOMIC "MIRACLE"2

While I was living in the rural town of San Jose de Ocoa, Dominican Republic, in 1980, water outages often made me complete my morning shower by scooping water from nearby buckets filled earlier to cover household needs. Water and electricity outages, in fact, were so frequent that toddlers quickly learned to say file la luz ("the lights went out"), imitating a cry heard frequently throughout the barrio.

When I returned to the

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