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Originally Posted by bizaro86
The DR and Haiti have a long history of killing each other. Haiti invaded the DR continuously for decades in the 1800s, and once they did a scorched earth genocide that killed a huge percentage of the population.
Then in the early 1900s Trujilo (dictator of the DR) massacred tens of thousands of Haitians.
The people aren't the same race, don't speak the same language, and the Dominican economy is more than 10x larger per capita. The economic disparity has led to tons of illegal immigration from Haiti, which is unpopular in the DR.
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There were essentially at the same economic level in 1960 and then wildly diverged.