<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Ex-Leader Under Probe In Dominican Republic <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic  --   The government said Tuesday it was investigating possible links between former president Hipolito Mejia and a businessman facing cocaine trafficking charges in the United States.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigrants Enlisted for Trade Pact]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32802-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32802-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. officials are reaching out to immigrant business owners in their effort to win congressional approval of a free-trade agreement with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.]]></description><author> Krissah Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15602-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15602-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Dominican Prison Fire Kills at Least 134 <br>   HIGUEY, Dominican Republic  --   Rival gangs battling over the drug trade in an overcrowded, vermin-infested prison set their bedding ablaze Monday and blocked the entrance to their cellblock, killing at least 134 inmates in one of Latin America's worst jailhouse blazes.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison Fire in Dominican Republic Kills at Least 134]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15322-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid 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ambassador for the Dominican Republic,    Hugo Guiliani Cury, says one of his great challenges in representing a small country at peace has been attracting the attention of officials and policymakers in Washington.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Heads for Bahamas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32048-2004Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32048-2004Sep18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Sept. 18 -- Tropical Storm Jeanne headed for the Bahamas on Saturday after an assault on the Dominican Republic that killed 10 people, destroyed hundreds of houses and forced thousands from their homes.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dominicans' Swift Step Into Crisis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37321-2004Aug26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37321-2004Aug26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- When Sandro Batista smashed his banana truck into a tree in April, leaving him with two hideously shattered legs and a broken arm, his orthopedic surgeon sent his sister shopping.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Returning to Office, Dominican Focuses On Economic Woes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6382-2004Aug16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid 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undergoing breast enlargement surgery or other cosmetic procedures in the Dominican Republic, the government said yesterday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CORRECTIONS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14278-2004Jun3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14278-2004Jun3.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A photo caption with a June 3 Business article on Enron Corp. incorrectly said that the Prisma Energy International power plant pictured is in Poland. It is in the Dominican Republic.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers Struggle to Aid Flood Survivors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64451-2004May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64451-2004May28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Flash floods have brought a rising and still undetermined death toll in remote villages of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Toll Climbs in Caribbean Flood]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60301-2004May27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60301-2004May27.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[U.S. and Canadian troops on Thursday rushed to a town left completely submerged by flooding, and health officials feared as many as 1,000 people could be dead in that town alone, a figure that would bring to toll from storms that hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic as high as 2,000.]]></description><author> Amy Bracken</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flooding Toll Rises to More Than 860]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58731-2004May26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58731-2004May26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dominican soldiers used dogs and shovels to search for flood victims Wednesday while U.S. and Canadian troops hurried to neighboring Haitian towns, trying to assess the full scope of a disaster that has killed more than 660 people and left hundreds missing.]]></description><author> Peter Prengaman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 350 Die in Caribbean Floods]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55589-2004May25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55589-2004May25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sobbing villagers tore through heaps of mud with their bare hands Tuesday, searching for loved ones as the death toll from flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to about 360. Trucks dumped scores of corpses into a mass grave on the outskirts of this impoverished border town.]]></description><author> Peter Prengaman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53283-2004May24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53283-2004May24.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Flooding Kills Scores In Dominican Republic <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic --  At least 76 people, nearly half of them children, were killed when a rain-swollen river burst its banks and swept away dozens of homes in the western Dominican Republic on Monday, officials said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34862-2004May17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34862-2004May17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Chechen Rebel Asserts Role in Killing President <br>    VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia --  Russia's most wanted fugitive, Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, has asserted responsibility for killing Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader in a May 9 bombing at a stadium in Grozny.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31977-2004May16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31977-2004May16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Dominican President Concedes Defeat at Polls <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic --  President Hipolito Mejia conceded defeat late Sunday in an election marked by an outpouring of public anger over the Dominican Republic's worst economic crisis in decades. Mejia announced that he was recognizing former president Leonel Fernandez as winner after only about 3 percent of the results were officially released.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Some Immigrants, a Balancing Act]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50325-2004Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50325-2004Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Modern technology and a global economy have tethered immigrants more closely than ever before to their distant homelands. Millions of these immigrants send small fortunes to families via money-transfer storefronts.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S., Dominicans in Trade Pact]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61868-2004Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61868-2004Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and the Dominican Republic agreed yesterday to remove almost all trade restrictions between them over the next decade, while keeping a lid on how much sugar the Caribbean island nation can export to the United States.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20509-2004Feb6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20509-2004Feb6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/caribbean/dominicanrepublic/post</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 4:27:19 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Doctors Perform Rare Operation  To Remove Girl's Second Head <br>   SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic --  A team of surgeons successfully removed the second head of a Dominican baby Friday in a complex operation that doctors believe to be the first of its kind.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>