The 20th century was marked in the Dominican Republic by long periods of instability, internal wars, two military interventions by the United States, and a long 31-year dictatorship. But it also marked the beginning of a long process of democratization that has paved the way for the country into the future.
In this CDN documentary report from 1999, with text and presentation by the journalist, writer and historian Miguel Guerrero, and directed by Fernando Hasbún, the development of the political events that characterized Dominican life in that century and that traced the route of modernization and the democratic consolidation that we live today.
The digital Caribbean reproduces it as part of its effort to rescue the values of a past that still influences the political life of the Republic.