This is a DAM Shame!

At least the RD Gov has their priorities straight as Prez LF is out of the country being a statesman during a major power failure. I guess, Fannin is hosting another social party to celebrate the "significant progress" (used loosely) he has made with the RD Gov on social concerns, improving the quality of life for the Dominicans & especially the drug war. It AMAZES me how so out-of-touch politicians are disconnected from the REAL WORLD!

Taking to the hi seas on YOLA's when Dominicans know risks & odds are against them but this is the only hope. Even high risk hope is better than NO HOPE. These survivors will have an experience that will haunt them the rest of their lives.

If I were Prez LF or US Ambassador Fannin, then I'd be highly embarassed by the status quo. Americans r sick of the status quo & want results...That is why you have a former IL state assemblyman who my soon be President because "WE WANT CHANGE!"

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Damn shame indeed.

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damn how embarrasing.

These people don't even know that PR is just as bad, and people over there are going to florida by the 100,000's every year.

TO RUBIROSA;
You haven't yet open your big stinking mouth regarding what civilized dominicans do when they are trying to survive. Come on, be strong, be civilize for a change. LA VERITE.

TO RUBIROSA;
You haven't yet open your big stinking mouth regarding what civilized dominicans do when they are trying to survive. Come on, be strong, be civilize for a change. LA VERITE.

Something very sad besides what can be read on this article is that some of these survivors will do it again.

Very sad indeed, hope these peoples get the help that they so desperately needed.

What a shame... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27531105/

This is really shameful, not only for the government, but also for the citizens that risk their lives in search of nothing. It seems hard to understand that the difference is not much between the U.S and DR, except that in DR we have our families and friends to support us in times of need, in USA we are on our own. When will we learn from the experience of those who come back running from the us, when will we open our eyes and see that after 10-15 years our neighbor who's been living abroad has amounted to nothing but sickness and problems, when will we learn that there is nothing more important than life, than staying close to our families? I guess we know, is just that until we continues to dream of the kind of life that TV and the capitalist system are portraying to us, we will desperately run in search of way to acquire that luxury life we see on TV, but the reality is, that is better to eat plain rice than raw flesh in the middle of the sea. http://nicolasdelvalle.wordpres.com

they still doing that crazy shit?..we need to stop thinking that other countries are gonna save us and start dedicating time working on DR..in my opinion those desparate people are ignorant and definitly not educated..whose fault is that? is the question.

I m sorry this happened...But I won't any comments from you guys talking shit about Haiti anymore. You r cannibals, it s sad but it's true...so next time something come from Haiti shut your mouth if you can t say something good about it. Cause you Dominican are not better than us...such ashame for the island.

To:haitian 1804. Don't be sorry, that group of Dominicans did it out of desperation,just like those athletes did back in 1973, when their plane crashed on the Andes.
Haitians have eaten human flesh many times while practicing voodoo,with no necesity at all.
I 've seen your comments about how you (haitians) could overtake us again.......come on,make our day! If you were unsuccessful many times over on a 12 year span,when we barely had any man power and had no resources.....What makes you think that you'll be victorious this one time??
Just try something "funny",come at us like a"tsunami" please and you'll see how we'll use your own people as raw material to build the wall that will finally separate the 2 countries for good,and every time you'd look at that wall from your side,the bones and skulls sticking out of it will remind you why you speak creole and why we speak spanish.........Fair warning: stop taunting us,don't try our patience.

Good luck everyone.

such a big mouth Trinitario809 but i ll shut it up...don't worry. you have nothing more than the other, Genoroso,lautaro,eiennc...all cowards. i ll take care of you soon busy now