Agents / Actors

The border is affected by the intervention of multiple agents that operate from a global context as well as from a bi-national one (that is from the Dominican Republic and/or Haiti). The border thus becomes a series of sites where its multinational character is apparent, comprising the interests and struggles of various subjects.

THE HISPANIOLA ISLAND, A TIMELINE OF TRADE

The island was discovered by the Arawaks Indians who around the VIIth century started exploring the Caribbean, these groups later on evolved and mixed becoming the Taínos. In the XVth century with the arrival of Europeans the island became a funnel for trade and production. Labour and goods produced a geopolitical history on it that generated the foundation of two Republics: The Dominican Republic and Haiti. The XXth century saw the substitution of Europe by the United States as a power that determined the way in which the island, by then already divided, related to itself and the world. The intervention of these global forces even today still operate within the use of trade and economy as political tools.