Dominicana la presente compilación adiciona 7 especies a las 3 listadas en el último inventario nacional de la biodiversidad marina, lo que da un total de 10 especies conocidas para esta parte de la Isla. Para Haití se listan 4 especies. Para el Atlántico Occidental tropical se conocen unas 70 especies, por lo que nuestro conocimiento del grupo puede considerarse incipiente si bien comparable al de Cuba con una similitud de un 95% entre los inventarios de ambas islas. Se ofrece además información de las localidades de colectas y los museos que albergan el material de la Hispaniola.
Border relations on Hispaniola have always been characterised by contradictory dynamics. After the 2012 earthquake some hoped that the catastrophe could signpost the beginning of better border relations. Well before the earthquake, the artist David Pérez a.k.a. Karmadavis had urged the inhabitants of the island to consider Hispaniola as an isla abierta (open island) where one could develop a national identity in relation with and not in opposition to one's neighbours. After the earthquake, Karmadavis continues to denounce how Hispaniola is still an isla cerrada (closed island) that fails to realise, appreciate and celebrate itself as a estructura completa (complete structure).
Juan Pablo Duarte, revered as a founding father of the Dominican Republic,2 recently found his nationalist message featured in a video on YouTube titled "ex Dominican@ os que juraron por la bandera de Haiti," or "ex-Dominicans who swore on Haiti's flag." The short clip, about seven minutes in total, features a slideshow containing photos and names of Dominicans who, according to the nationalist, anti-Haitian producers of the video, have "betrayed their Dominican citizenship," as the title slide suggests, and sworn allegiance to Haiti.3 What sparked the production of this video? The answer is muddled by centuries of negrophobia and anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic; beginning with colonization; early border disputes; occupation in the nineteenth century; and Rafael Trujillo's thirty-one-year reign (1930–1961). The Dominican Republic's notorious dictator is responsible for the institutionalization of anti-Haitian ideology and it is during this time that the ideology entered the Dominican school curriculum, serving as only one example of the policy's firm grip on Dominican society. Trujillo's plan for the nation, based on Eurocentric and Catholic values, did not end with his assassination, but found a new place within Dominican intellectual thought of the late twentieth century. The dictator's right-hand man, Joaquín Balaguer, in his 1947 publication, retitled in 1983 La isla al revés, equated Haitians to backwardness and labeled them as savages, deeming the Haitian nationals threats to the "non-black" Dominican nation. Although the conjunctures of the political, economic, social, and cultural destinies of the two sister-countries, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, are marked by a long list of misunderstandings, disputes and crises, for the purpose of this paper I will primarily consider two influential events involving Dominican-Haitian relations: the Haitian Massacre of 1937 and the Tribunal Court Ruling (0168–13) of September 2013.
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Nessler argues that the territories' borders and governance were often unclear and mutually influential.
El presente trabajo resume, dede una perspectiva insular, el conocimiento de la biodiversidad de las anémonas de la Hispaniola y ofrece una lista con 20 especies, divididas en 12 de Actiniaria, 3 de Corallimorpharia, 1 de Ceriantharia y 4 de Zoanthidea. Para la República Dominicana la presente compilación adiciona 6 especies a las listadas en el último inventario nacional de la biodiversidad marina, efectuado hace siete años, lo que da un total de 20 especies conocidas para esta parte de la Isla. Para Haití se listan 13 especies. Se ofrece además información de las localidades de colectas y datos ecológicos generales.
Abstract. Landslides pose a serious threat to life and property in Central America and the Caribbean Islands. In order to allow regionally coordinated situational awareness and disaster response, an online decision support system was created. At its core is a new flexible framework for evaluating potential landslide activity in near real time: Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness. This framework was implemented in Central America and the Caribbean by integrating a regional susceptibility map and satellite-based rainfall estimates into a binary decision tree, considering both daily and antecedent rainfall. Using a regionally distributed, percentile-based threshold approach, the model outputs a pixel-by-pixel nowcast in near real time at a resolution of 30 arcsec to identify areas of moderate and high landslide hazard. The daily and antecedent rainfall thresholds in the model are calibrated using a subset of the Global Landslide Catalog in Central America available for 2007–2013. The model was then evaluated with data for 2014. Results suggest reasonable model skill over Central America and poorer performance over Hispaniola due primarily to the limited availability of calibration and validation data. The landslide model framework presented here demonstrates the capability to utilize globally available satellite products for regional landslide hazard assessment. It also provides a flexible framework to interchange the individual model components and adjust or calibrate thresholds based on access to new data and calibration sources. The availability of free satellite-based near real-time rainfall data allows the creation of similar models for any study area with a spatiotemporal record of landslide events. This method may also incorporate other hydrological or atmospheric variables such as numerical weather forecasts or satellite-based soil moisture estimates within this decision tree approach for improved hazard analysis.
An evaluation of the seismic hazard in La Hispaniola Island has been carried out, as part of the cooperative project SISMO-HAITI, supported by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and developed by several Spanish Universities, the National Observatory of Environment and Vulnerability) ONEV of Haiti, and with contributions from the Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN) and University Seismological Institute of Dominican Republic (ISU). The study was aimed at obtaining results suitable for seismic design purposes. It started with the elaboration of a seismic catalogue for the Hispaniola Island, requiring an exhaustive revision of data reported by more than 20 seismic agencies, apart from these from the PRSN and ISU. The final catalogue contains 96 historical earthquakes and 1690 instrumental events, and it was homogenized to moment magnitude, Mw. Seismotectonic models proposed for the region were revised and a new regional zonation was proposed, taking into account geological andtectonic data, seismicity, focal mechanisms, and GPS observations. In parallel, attenuation models for subduction and crustal zones were revised in previous projects and the most suitable for the Caribbean plate were selected. Then, a seismic hazard analysis was developed in terms of peak ground acceleration, PGA, and spectral accelerations, SA (T), for periods of 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1 and 2s, using the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) methodology. As a result, different hazard maps were obtained for the quoted parameters, together with Uniform Hazard Spectra for Port au Prince and the main cities in the country. Hazard deaggregation was also carried out in these towns, for the target motion given by the PGA and SA (1s) obtained for return periods of 475, 975 and 2475 years. Therefore, the controlling earthquakes for short- and long-period target motions were derived. This study was started a few months after the 2010 earthquake, as a response to an aid request from the Haitian government to the UPM, and the results are available ...
"The barbarians who threaten this part of the world": protecting the unenforceable -- "Making crosses on his chest": U.S. racism confronts a border insurgency -- "A systematic campaign of extermination": racial agenda on the border -- "Demands of civilization": changing identity by remapping and renaming -- "Silent invasions": anti-Haitian propaganda -- "Instructed to register as white or mulatto": white numerical ascendency -- Epilogue: "return to the source
El artículo explora el impacto del terremoto ocurrido en Haití el 12 de enero del 2010 en la orientación de las relaciones geopolíticas de los Estados Unidos en el Caribe y América Latina. Se detiene a discutir las implicaciones de la catástrofe para el porvenir de las relaciones dominico-haitianas y el curso futuro de las relaciones de los dos países que pueblan la isla Hispaniola con los Estados Unidos y América Latina. La discusión se articula a partir de una hipótesis que asume que los Estados Unidos al ocupar militarmente Haití no sólo operaban por motivos humanitarios y de seguridad, sino que también lo hacían como un mecanismo de afirmación de su poder hegemónico en el Caribe frente a la presencia de países como Brasil y Chile y la Unión Europea en Haití, tras la organización de la MINUSTAH. En una segunda parte el artículo explora las posibilidades de la cooperación insular en la Hispaniola en este nuevo marco geopolítico que impone la nueva situación haitiana post terremoto.
"The Dominican Racial Imaginary subverts the way of knowledge of Dominican elites by telling the stories of 'the forced delivered child.' This child (a blend of Africans, Tainos, and Spanish) fled to the mountains escaping the abuses of the colonizer and became an adult in maroon communities. This book takes a look at history as a space of interrogation. When and how did Africa become part of the Dominican racial mix? In renewing the past, rather than the imposed Indo-Hispanic racial homogenization narrative, we might see something more--the historical creation of a multiracial rainbow. The stories the child/adult tell about the slave traffic, anti-colonial movements, the division of the island, more anti-colonial revolutions, abolition, and renewal of colonial oppressions. These stories also tell about cultural constructions unique to the island and the formation of a subversive racial imaginary. Battles against the continuity of white supremacist values people cultural practices, and ways of knowing attest to this subverted imaginary. In telling the stories of women dancing under the spell of the snake, of youngsters in New York City wearing dreadlocks, of Dominican intellectuals and politicians searching for their true identity, of people creating cooperation at the Haitian-Dominican border, this book strongly argues that there is a nation of Dominicans battling against the continuity of white supremacist values"--Provided by publisher
