Tag: Dominican Republic

First American intervention With a view to protecting the future routes of the Panama Canal, whose construction had already begun at the time, North American President Theodore Roosevelt tried to prevent by all possible means the European intervention that could take place due to the great Dominican debts with the old continent. For this reason, he…

Political system Short for DR by Abbreviationfinder, the Dominican Republic is a democracy with strong presidential power and division of power according to the American model with an executive, a legislative and a judicial body. The constitution is basically from 1966, but with each change a new constitution is formally adopted. The judiciary is weak…