dominican republic

The Spanish Empire in continental America collapsed during the Spanish American Wars of Independence. However, not all of Spains territories in the new world were lost to Mexico, Gran Colombia, etc. Spain still had naval dominance in the caribbean, and was able to keep Cuba and Puerto Rico. They...

There are hundreds of threads ctalking about the american civil war, and how if it had gone differently, it would have affected america. But, I am more interested in what a divided US means for Europe. OTL, France used the turmoil of the American Civil War to intervene in Mexico, and Spain used...

Let's say one day, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, due to their common heritage, location, and/or for whatever other reason, form union between each other. What would newly united country look like and what would it be called?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillean_Confederation This idea had been around since around the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti. What if the 10 Years’ War coincided with the Dominican Restoration War and a Puerto Rican revolt and successfully won and unified as a nation. What would...

Doing some reading today on the Antillean Confederation proposal left me wondering if there is a POD in which this could have happened without Cuba, and whether such a polity could endure. Discuss.

This is just a small idea I've had bouncing around in my head for a while, about a mini-cold war between the Dominican Republic and Haiti based around the years of conflict both countries have had OTL and how especially during the racist rule of Trujillo, the Haitians would grow to really oppose...

During the American Civil War the Dominican president Pedro Santana, allegedly fearing Haitian aggression, asked Spain for annexation. Said move was deeply unpopular and rebellion soon followed, the restoration war was a huge quagmire for Spain and devastated the country, in the end the USA...

From 1801 to 1809, and again from 1822 to 1844, the Dominican Republic came under Haitian rule. The first time, Haiti lost control of the Dominican Republic because of the English taking control of the island. The second time, it was a mix of uprisings and independence movements that led to the...

I currently have a scenario in the works where, following the Spanish-American War, the United States aims to create a union of all Spanish-speaking Caribbean territories (those being Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) under US protection. What would be the hypothetical capital of...

If you didn't know, Haiti under iron grip of dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier and the neighboring Dominican Republic, under the leadership of recently elected leftist Juan Bosch almost came to war. But let's say it played out slightly differently, with the DR military command responding with...