Just about every Latin American
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
– Cheech Marin
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- I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. – Monica Raymund
- I just thought of something funny…your mother. – Cheech Marin
- My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream. – Thomas Perez
- By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. – Stephen Kinzer
- I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. – Smedley Butler
- The American ‘unum’ has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the ‘pluribus,’ and the days of the Republic will be numbered. – Os Guinness
- Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. – Elliott Abrams
- Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera. – Pat Robertson
- When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family. – Maika Monroe
- I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic. – Albert Pujols