@@godzillamegatron3590 I can't speak for all Dominicans, but all I know is I have *never* heard anyone in my family express themselves the way Batista does (he even says his family disagrees with a lot of what he says). To be honest not so much like Renaissance either. But as with any group, Dominicans are not a monolith, we don't all think the same.
@@VivaBellabyXtina I just surprise to see young people to have racist ideas. But I still think most Americans are not racist. These guys represent a minority and there views are not popular. Based on their sub counts.
@@godzillamegatron3590 All those dudes are extremist that live and was raised in the US, how can they speak on a whole island's behalf? I've been to DR atleast twice a year for the past 3 years and I've been to several cities. I haven't once encountered anyone with their ideology there or felt like I wasn't wanted on there island. It's just like anywhere else, you go there with a good attitude and show respect then they will welcome you.
@@Papi_Oso I don't know Dominican republic culture and history. That is why I asking the question. I want to know if majority of Dominicans think like bastitia or not.
In Haiti, the U.S. occupation lasted from 1915 to 1934. During that time, the invaders looted the country. So sad! Google U.S. invasion of Haiti, you will find plenty of excellent links.
Another person who took part in the US-Dominican War of 1965 was Jacques Viau Renaud. J.V. Renaud was born in 1941in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to a Mulatto family of French European and Afro Haitian descent. He was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Understanding both Haitian and Dominican cultures, he tried to bring peace between both countries. In 1965 he decided to help his fellow Dominicans to maintain their country free of American rule and died while doing so. His story is not known much today but hopefully, more people, especially Haitians and Dominicans will know more about him as time goes on.
I was at Ft. Campbell, KY in Company B, 313th Army Security Agency Bn in April 1965 when my unit was alerted for this mission. Overnight we received a couple of hundred Spanish speaking ASA troops from other bases in the USA on TDY. However, within a day or so, our orders were changed, and we were told that the 82nd Air Borne Division at Ft Bragg, NC would handle this mission. The Spanish speaking troops were then transported to Ft Bragg to join that unit, plus some of our personnel was transported to Ft Bragg on TDY to go on the mission with them. A few days later we learned that our unit was alerted for deployment to Vietnam. Our company was split up into two units and other personnel from other bases joined these two units to get them up to full strength. One of the groups was renamed as I recall the 606th Army Security Agency Detachment and the other retained our original designation. The 606th was alerted for immediate deployment to Vietnam and left in June or July 1965, I was not deployed because my enlistment term ran out on the 24th of May 1965. I heard later that the name designation of the 606th was changed to something like the 1st Radio Research group on the way to Vietnam.
I was in the 82nd at that time I made many friends there they were my brothers and sisters. I had 6 to 8 Dominican men working with me on clean up detail. The captain told me to give each man a helmet full of rice I disobeyed and gave each man a half of a sack of rice about 25 lbs per day. when I left they were sad. 45 years later here in Pittsburgh PA a Doctor from DR operated on me we became friends.
@@matts4684 Yep, divide and conquer. Ever wonder why Haitians and DR remain at each other's throats despite almost no one alive today that witness the animosity committed by both side? We're still fighting old wars, while those in power benefit from the hatred amongst Haiti and DR.
I was living there at the time and 13 years old. I was evacuated from the El Embajador hotel when US Marine helicopters landed in the polo field and hustled my ass away. Fun times!
I was part of it. We were going to jump into Santo Domingo. The airfield was secured so we landed. Later, we discovered the DZ (jump zone) was a vineyard. Had we jumped, we would have been decimated.
As an African American who was raised in the city of Philadelphia, and who's parents came from the states of Mississippi, and South Carolina, I had the opportunity to live in the city of Samana, Dominican Republic, african americans and samana americanos share the same heritage, even though they speak spanish and english, the food, the culture, the way of life reminds me some much of my parents, and grand parents, they baked johnny cakes, cooked collards greens, oxtails, string beans, but also added mangu, chicharrons, rice and beans to their everyday life, I will be returning to wonderful island.
During the Haitian occupation of DR early in the 1800s, the national government allowed African Americans from the Southern States to settle in Samaná. As you mentioned, the local culture of this part of DR has much of this heritage, even though the English spoken by the original arrivals is increasingly replaced by Spanish.
Thank you for the video, I had no idea that America attacked DR. I’ve been to Puerto Plata quite a few times and the Dominicans are good people. Peace & Love……
@@MrJason0505 lol! That's funny. Yea, it was pretty real. My parents were only 11 at the time but my mom remembers a lot of protests going on and someone breaking into their classroom and telling everyone to go out into the street and protest
Yea my grandmother told me a crazy story where she traveled at night in the forest with my dad because they where trying to kill my grandfather and her.
As a member of the 82nd Airborne division, I was in the first group of C130's landing. The problem was, one couldn't tell who the enemy was. If someone was firing at you, then you returned fire. Crazy.
@@VivaBellabyXtina indeed it was. In my mind I still can't comprehend what actually happened during those months. It's not clear, the why is the problem. Never really understood what I was fighting for. Vietnam was way more clear as to why/what reason I am here. At least from the Government's perspective and narrative. Stay safe my friend. God bless you.
During the war, I was stationed at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. A P 51 mustang belonging to the rebel side, landed without permission, and the pilot was taken into custody immediately. I was standing right where he was arrested and heard him tell his captors in Spanish that he was told to bomb and strafe the city of Santa Domingo. His reasoning was his family live there, and he didn’t want to do it the base commander and the intelligence officer of Ramey Air Force Base were relieved that occurred in 1965 fast forward to 2021. I’m talking to my ophthalmologist in Spanish who is from the Dominican republic about dish. He got very quiet and lightly touched me on the shoulder saying,” Él era mi tío.” He was my uncle. His name: Roberto Mendez.
The only country in the Caribbean not even castro in cuba fought the united states like the people of the Dominican Republic. Mind you these were not trained forces these were ordinary people. The Dominican army lied about the rebels and knew that if they told the us government they were communists the us would send help. The Dominican army was losing the war to the people who wanted their freedoms back. Cammano was a super hero not a communist he put together a group of poor working class people who had never fired a gun and fought the greatest military on earth and still caused damage to them. If he had trained troops and real weapons he would have made the 82 airborne lose way more men than they did. Most likely he would have made the us withdraw like they did in Vietnam. No other small poor country has fought like that besides vietnam but they had the Chinese backing them the Dominicans had no one.
Um... Pretty sure Haitian guerillas and the ones in Dominic ALSO fought against the USA military in the Caribbean. DR is not special in that regards. And many small countries fought against the USA and in fact did MUCH better than DR. More importantly the USA used a small faction of its military unlike with Vietnam. So your Vietnam comparison is weird. And PS: The USA won every military engagement in Vietnam...
@@Mr_Bawon No it is special because it was the people men woman and children who fought a world power. Those other countries did not fight like that. Please don't comment on this topic if you are going to hate. This is written history.
@@Mr_Bawon just to add more to this I compare it to Vietnam only in the way that they fought a much more advanced military. And killed many men.other wise it does not compare Vietnam had trained guerillas and arms from china. They were being supplied by the communist countries of the time. Dominican republic was in a civil war and beating a government that had just took down their first democratic president after 30 years of dictatorship. The people that the 82 airborne fought were mostly common people that had never even trained to fight let alone fight a force like the us. And even like that they managed to give the us a fight many soldiers died. It does not get spoken of in the us because shortly after that the us went to Vietnam.
At 14:37 there is a picture of my father, who was in the 82nd Air born, holding his issued M79 grenade launcher....this is incredible...I have so many stories that he told me about his time in the DR
This was very informing as always, thank you VivaBella. I never knew the Dominican Republic was going thru this revolution towards the end of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.. This makes me think of a question: not trying to be controversial or anything but did DR ever have any predominant black leaders there? 220 years after the first US president we begot Barack, but did DR have any luck yet? Just curious..
Thank you! DR had two black presidents in the 1800s, Gregorio Luperon (who also led the Restoration war) and Ulises Huereaux.. There was also Jose Peña Gomez who was a predominant political figure in the '80s I believe, he was mayor of Santo Domingo and tried running for president 3 times. From what I've heard he was very popular with the ppl, although some discredit him cuz he was Haitian descent
@@VivaBellabyXtina Wooow! Thats the guy who they name Puerto Plata airport after! I just looked him up, I never knew that, thats dope! VivaBella you always droppin' jewels, eres asombrosa! #Salute
@@alexislopez4160 True! I thought of him, but then I was like hmm some may say "he's not black, he's mixed" or whatever lol but yea he is definitely non-white
Ended up here because of the Swedish tanks used in the civil war. Trujillo bought swedish early WW2 era tanks to use against Haiti. They didn't stand a chance against US M48 tanks. Really well done video. Thanx a bunch from Sweden.
Excellent and very informative........do i remember it in 1965???? Yes....1965 was a hot year in the US......the civil rights was going very strong..keep up your great work....you are a historian....enjoy your weekend
You did a good job on the African diaspora nextwork. I have a feeling you going to blow up. Phill Scott has a 1.1 million subscribers. I think a lot will come and check your channel for beauty tips and history. And warning so will the trolls. So don't take them seriously.
Omg you saw it 😱 lol.. yea, I didnt realize how big his channel was when they reached out to me!! I was so nervous. Happy to hear you thought I did a good job tho!
@@VivaBellabyXtina I like political stuff and trolling. But I do respectable trolling going after racist. Phill Scott is pro black and is trying to build relationships with Africa. He is a pan africanist.
I wish you posted the sources you used! Not because I don't believe you, but so I can prove this youtube video is a reliable source and also have a chance to read on your sources to learn more.
I thought it was then Vice-President Richard Melhous Nixon who made that statement about Rafael Trujillo being our S.O.B under the Eisenhower administration.
@Marquis 912 8million? Pretty sure ww2 cost the lives of atleast 60million people.not sure how many people Germany killed,but I'm sure it's much higher than 8millon
And today DR is the largest Caribbean economy, with strong US ties, and they make more progress every year. Youre welcome. Looking forward to a vacation there
Not trying to start controversy? But would the Dominican people be better off if they was under communism??? Imagine DR like Cuba, imagine a massive refugee flow into the US because of communist govt. IM just saying.... still US policy on latin America will always be subjective and complicated.
Na, don't think they would be better off! The issue here tho is that president Bosch, who was democratically elected (he didn't stage a revolution or coup to get in power, he won the people's vote) was _accused_ of being communist, but he wasn't. Was he more liberal, especially compared to Trujillo's government, yes, but he was not a communist. I think those who opposed him used the communist fear which was high at the time to their advantage by accusing him of being communist. While there was a communist party in DR, and they did support the constitutionalists, they were not the ones the people were pushing for to be in power. But yes I agree, U.S. policy in Latin America is always gonna be complicated.
@@VivaBellabyXtina America is very familiar with J. Bosch, but he isn't a saint either.. he had associated himself with Castro, a big No No especially back in those days...
@@VivaBellabyXtina Also there was bigger forces in play, every communist, especially in the western hemisphere was also associated with the Soviet Union, Americas Enemy.. Uncle Sam will do what it has to do, that's the Cold war for ya.
@@VivaBellabyXtina You never know, things could have escalated to Haiti(Papa Doc) and Elsewhere. Who knows.. yes it was bad, but could have been alot worse
I rather The Americans come than a Communist regime or fascist ideology, though its quite obvious there was never a communist problem in the land UNTIL AMERICA CLAIMED THERE WAS. There has been quite the fascist problem of past.. and Balaguer was just another fascist..
Lots of Dominicans go to NYC to work and whenever they think of the US, the Big Apple is the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, whenever I visit Santo Domingo people there talk to me and think I'm from NYC, so I often have to tell them that I'm not.
No, we remember all our wars. Spain, france, haiti, united states 2 times 1916/1965 and irak 2003 The constitutionalists are heroes in the Dominican Republic.
Can u do a video about all the racist/colorist tik toks about black people & especially black women is getting ridiculous at this point & I'm over it at this point I thought tik tok was a app u go on to fun & make funny videos not to display hate & racism
@@VivaBellabyXtina yes it's really bad to a point a black girl made video crying about the colorist/racist things people do on tik tok & some the videos come from black boys
Maybe I'm misinterpretting it, but for me the tone of this video is that the USA shouldn't have "invaded" in 1965 and that it did something wrong by trying to stop a civil war. This is the reason the USA is hesitant to assist Haiti right now. Peace keeping is difficult work. In the 1950s and 60s the USA was fighting communism. There were definitely many missteps in that process but I don't believe this was one of them. We will never know for sure what would have happened had the USA not intervened, but I suspect it would have been much worse for the people of the Rupublica Dominicana.
We wouldn’t have became a cuba that’s cap all the speculations were cap just USA going into another country to cause harm but we ain’t step back not one step 🇩🇴 DIOS PATRIA Y LIBERTAD WE ARE NOT THE ONES
I think usa better stay out of other countrys bussines and let every country decide what they want. And dont go to invade and kill inocents. I think. Capitalist. Comunism. Anything. If some country want take decisions how and what to do. Like a free country. What u think?
@@milianoelrey3636DR didn’t stand a chance, they just appointed a puppet that played by USA rules that’s all. Juan Bosch had communist ideas, USA don’t like it. Once USA knew they had a guy would play by their rules it was a wrap.
Bro Dominicans swear Haitian occupation was worse than the entirety of Spain taking a shit on our island this has been disproven time again Did haiti occupy RD? YES But they came on invitation Then assisted liberate Dominican Republic from Spain again
Stop lying, Haiti invaded the DR for economic and political reasons. Haitians say they freed us then because generations of Dominicans were traumatized by Haiti's treatment of Dominicans. Even today, Dominican truck drivers are murdered when they enter Haiti. Dominicans We know our history well, stop lying
Just to clarify, this is not to crap on the U.S., I am also American after all! 🇺🇸 Just stating the historical events of what happened.
May I ask. After I talked to Dominican rennance , Philly Rican and Battista. My question is , Do they represent the majority views of Dominicans?
@@godzillamegatron3590 I can't speak for all Dominicans, but all I know is I have *never* heard anyone in my family express themselves the way Batista does (he even says his family disagrees with a lot of what he says). To be honest not so much like Renaissance either. But as with any group, Dominicans are not a monolith, we don't all think the same.
@@VivaBellabyXtina I just surprise to see young people to have racist ideas. But I still think most Americans are not racist. These guys represent a minority and there views are not popular. Based on their sub counts.
@@godzillamegatron3590 All those dudes are extremist that live and was raised in the US, how can they speak on a whole island's behalf? I've been to DR atleast twice a year for the past 3 years and I've been to several cities. I haven't once encountered anyone with their ideology there or felt like I wasn't wanted on there island. It's just like anywhere else, you go there with a good attitude and show respect then they will welcome you.
@@Papi_Oso I don't know Dominican republic culture and history. That is why I asking the question. I want to know if majority of Dominicans think like bastitia or not.
I love History videos like this really informing because they do not teach us this in school thanks for another dope video
Can you do a video on the history of so Sosúa with the US and the Jewish immigrants
@@Phillyalim Sure!
In Haiti, the U.S. occupation lasted from 1915 to 1934. During that time, the invaders looted the country. So sad! Google U.S. invasion of Haiti, you will find plenty of excellent links.
promo 23 thanks i will check that out as well
@@BrokenSpanishForGringos Wow so the U.S. had the whole island at one point! Cuz they were in D.R. around that time frame as well
Another person who took part in the US-Dominican War of 1965 was Jacques Viau Renaud. J.V. Renaud was born in 1941in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to a Mulatto family of French European and Afro Haitian descent. He was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Understanding both Haitian and Dominican cultures, he tried to bring peace between both countries. In 1965 he decided to help his fellow Dominicans to maintain their country free of American rule and died while doing so. His story is not known much today but hopefully, more people, especially Haitians and Dominicans will know more about him as time goes on.
Your channel should be on Tv like this really could educate people 🇩🇴💕💕Ur videos always on point 👏🏽
Love your history videos, not too long. You should do these on every country in the world.
Thank you!
My dad fought in this revolution! And he told me the story from his perspective and it’s mind blowing!
Same here.
I was at Ft. Campbell, KY in Company B, 313th Army Security Agency Bn in April 1965 when my unit was alerted for this mission. Overnight we received a couple of hundred Spanish speaking ASA troops from other bases in the USA on TDY. However, within a day or so, our orders were changed, and we were told that the 82nd Air Borne Division at Ft Bragg, NC would handle this mission. The Spanish speaking troops were then transported to Ft Bragg to join that unit, plus some of our personnel was transported to Ft Bragg on TDY to go on the mission with them. A few days later we learned that our unit was alerted for deployment to Vietnam. Our company was split up into two units and other personnel from other bases joined these two units to get them up to full strength. One of the groups was renamed as I recall the 606th Army Security Agency Detachment and the other retained our original designation. The 606th was alerted for immediate deployment to Vietnam and left in June or July 1965, I was not deployed because my enlistment term ran out on the 24th of May 1965. I heard later that the name designation of the 606th was changed to something like the 1st Radio Research group on the way to Vietnam.
I'm sorry you were forced to serve as cannon fodder for the western ruling classes
I was in the 82nd at that time I made many friends there they were my brothers and sisters. I had 6 to 8 Dominican men working with me on clean up detail. The captain told me to give each man a helmet full of rice I disobeyed and gave each man a half of a sack of rice about 25 lbs per day. when I left they were sad.
45 years later here in Pittsburgh PA a Doctor from DR operated on me we became friends.
It's interesting to see that DR went through as much turmoil as Haiti when it comes to our governments. Very informative.
Yup.. I thought of how Haiti was invaded by the U.S. as well while I was making this video
Art Benaca please don’t compare ....
They were both controlled by the same forces that control them today. Guantanamo is there for a reason.
@@MalditoLocaDeLosMina Why not?
@@matts4684 Yep, divide and conquer. Ever wonder why Haitians and DR remain at each other's throats despite almost no one alive today that witness the animosity committed by both side? We're still fighting old wars, while those in power benefit from the hatred amongst Haiti and DR.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the rebels or constitutionalist as they are called..
are viewed in a positive light today in DR..
The opposers , not so well...
Great job Bella! I did not know the specifics on the US occupation in RD.. Learning soo much from you You Tubers!
As a descendant of Caamaño I truly appreciate this video so much thank you for this amazing work.
Thank you so much! 🙏🏾
El gran coronel Francis Caamaño, es un placer conocer unos de sus descendientes. Viene usted de buena sangre.
Wow! This is a good one. Excellent job as usual!
Thank you!
Camaño🤩🫡🙌🏾 my uncle "fought" in that military at I think 19? wow loved your video extremely PROUD Dominican American here!💚💕💚
I was living there at the time and 13 years old. I was evacuated from the El Embajador hotel when US Marine helicopters landed in the polo field and hustled my ass away. Fun times!
thank you, i love what you have done in bringing light to this part of the history of the Dominican Republic
Thank you!!
My father family came to San Pedro … Los Angeles California after the Civil War my Family immigrated to America in 1966
I was part of it. We were going to jump into Santo Domingo. The airfield was secured so we landed. Later, we discovered the DZ (jump zone) was a vineyard. Had we jumped, we would have been decimated.
Wow!
As an African American who was raised in the city of Philadelphia, and who's parents came from the states of Mississippi, and South Carolina, I had the opportunity to live in the city of Samana, Dominican Republic, african americans and samana americanos share the same heritage, even though they speak spanish and english, the food, the culture, the way of life reminds me some much of my parents, and grand parents, they baked johnny cakes, cooked collards greens, oxtails, string beans, but also added mangu, chicharrons, rice and beans to their everyday life, I will be returning to wonderful island.
During the Haitian occupation of DR early in the 1800s, the national government allowed African Americans from the Southern States to settle in Samaná. As you mentioned, the local culture of this part of DR has much of this heritage, even though the English spoken by the original arrivals is increasingly replaced by Spanish.
Viva hispanola !
Y todos los sin vergüenzas que creen que no vas a trampar que comen mierda no queremos aquí los mal agradecidos
Yes! And some are last name brown and johnson!! happy you liked it
Wow I absolutely loved this video!
Incredible video Xtina. I very much enjoyed it.
Thank you!
Thank you for the video, I had no idea that America attacked DR. I’ve been to Puerto Plata quite a few times and the Dominicans are good people. Peace & Love……
The USA has had its foot prints in almost every country. The world Police 🤔
great video! My grandfather fought in this and listening to his stories and seeing this video really helped with the screenplay I'm writing. Thank you
You are so welcome! Glad this video helped 🙂
yea he would tell me crazy stories and I thought he just made them up until I watched this video 😂😂😂 then he showed me the bullet holes.
@@MrJason0505 lol! That's funny. Yea, it was pretty real. My parents were only 11 at the time but my mom remembers a lot of protests going on and someone breaking into their classroom and telling everyone to go out into the street and protest
Yea my grandmother told me a crazy story where she traveled at night in the forest with my dad because they where trying to kill my grandfather and her.
@@MrJason0505 😮 wow! That's wild
Thank you so much for this video, it's very difficult to find English language information on this conflict
As a member of the 82nd Airborne division, I was in the first group of C130's landing. The problem was, one couldn't tell who the enemy was. If someone was firing at you, then you returned fire. Crazy.
Wow, that's crazy
@@VivaBellabyXtina indeed it was. In my mind I still can't comprehend what actually happened during those months. It's not clear, the why is the problem. Never really understood what I was fighting for. Vietnam was way more clear as to why/what reason I am here. At least from the Government's perspective and narrative. Stay safe my friend. God bless you.
My grandpa was in Company C 1st Battalion of the 504th Infantry division in the 82nd here
@@williampriester8859 what was his name?
@@jessjulian9458 First Sergeant Billy J. Bailey
I’m excited for this video. I’ve always wanted to know the history behind the US and DR
During the war, I was stationed at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. A P 51 mustang belonging to the rebel side, landed without permission, and the pilot was taken into custody immediately. I was standing right where he was arrested and heard him tell his captors in Spanish that he was told to bomb and strafe the city of Santa Domingo. His reasoning was his family live there, and he didn’t want to do it the base commander and the intelligence officer of Ramey Air Force Base were relieved that occurred in 1965 fast forward to 2021. I’m talking to my ophthalmologist in Spanish who is from the Dominican republic about dish. He got very quiet and lightly touched me on the shoulder saying,” Él era mi tío.” He was my uncle. His name: Roberto Mendez.
Excellent video. Very informative. Thanks!
Thanks for this brief history of the Dominican Republic. Helps with discussing with my friends.
VivaBella by Xtina great video keep up the good work👍.
Thanks!
@@VivaBellabyXtina you're welcome beautiful💖.
The only country in the Caribbean not even castro in cuba fought the united states like the people of the Dominican Republic. Mind you these were not trained forces these were ordinary people. The Dominican army lied about the rebels and knew that if they told the us government they were communists the us would send help. The Dominican army was losing the war to the people who wanted their freedoms back. Cammano was a super hero not a communist he put together a group of poor working class people who had never fired a gun and fought the greatest military on earth and still caused damage to them. If he had trained troops and real weapons he would have made the 82 airborne lose way more men than they did. Most likely he would have made the us withdraw like they did in Vietnam. No other small poor country has fought like that besides vietnam but they had the Chinese backing them the Dominicans had no one.
Um... Pretty sure Haitian guerillas and the ones in Dominic ALSO fought against the USA military in the Caribbean. DR is not special in that regards. And many small countries fought against the USA and in fact did MUCH better than DR. More importantly the USA used a small faction of its military unlike with Vietnam. So your Vietnam comparison is weird.
And PS: The USA won every military engagement in Vietnam...
@@Mr_Bawon No it is special because it was the people men woman and children who fought a world power. Those other countries did not fight like that. Please don't comment on this topic if you are going to hate. This is written history.
@@Mr_Bawon just to add more to this I compare it to Vietnam only in the way that they fought a much more advanced military. And killed many men.other wise it does not compare Vietnam had trained guerillas and arms from china. They were being supplied by the communist countries of the time. Dominican republic was in a civil war and beating a government that had just took down their first democratic president after 30 years of dictatorship. The people that the 82 airborne fought were mostly common people that had never even trained to fight let alone fight a force like the us. And even like that they managed to give the us a fight many soldiers died. It does not get spoken of in the us because shortly after that the us went to Vietnam.
Caamaño was not a communist but he was overly influenced by Aristy …. Who knows what would’ve happened if Bosch had returned
At 14:37 there is a picture of my father, who was in the 82nd Air born, holding his issued M79 grenade launcher....this is incredible...I have so many stories that he told me about his time in the DR
Wow! That's awesome
My grandpa was here as well in the 504th Infantry of the 82nd
I am working on podcast for summer will have interview with a surviving constitutionalist soldier. Doing research and lo I this vid
I love this vid I meant to say. Keep up the good work. Permission to share! :)
You are telling the truth about what happened I keep up the great work
Thank you!
This was very informing as always, thank you VivaBella. I never knew the Dominican Republic was going thru this revolution towards the end of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.. This makes me think of a question: not trying to be controversial or anything but did DR ever have any predominant black leaders there? 220 years after the first US president we begot Barack, but did DR have any luck yet? Just curious..
Thank you! DR had two black presidents in the 1800s, Gregorio Luperon (who also led the Restoration war) and Ulises Huereaux.. There was also Jose Peña Gomez who was a predominant political figure in the '80s I believe, he was mayor of Santo Domingo and tried running for president 3 times. From what I've heard he was very popular with the ppl, although some discredit him cuz he was Haitian descent
@@VivaBellabyXtina Wooow! Thats the guy who they name Puerto Plata airport after! I just looked him up, I never knew that, thats dope! VivaBella you always droppin' jewels, eres asombrosa! #Salute
@@Papi_Oso 😁
VivaBella by Xtina don’t forget Leonel Fernandez isn’t white 😅
@@alexislopez4160 True! I thought of him, but then I was like hmm some may say "he's not black, he's mixed" or whatever lol but yea he is definitely non-white
Ended up here because of the Swedish tanks used in the civil war. Trujillo bought swedish early WW2 era tanks to use against Haiti. They didn't stand a chance against US M48 tanks. Really well done video. Thanx a bunch from Sweden.
Thank you!!
My old boss fought in 1965 here, said he made Sargent down there because they the Dominicans were trying to fight them with rocks and sticks.
Excellent and very informative........do i remember it in 1965???? Yes....1965 was a hot year in the US......the civil rights was going very strong..keep up your great work....you are a historian....enjoy your weekend
Yup 1965 was a hot year all around! Thank you, and enjoy your weekend as well!
im dominican and i never knew my country was going through communism luckly my country is safe no wonder why i live in new york
U have a new sub I like when you do history videos like this and the afro Latina one
Thank you!!
You did a good job on the African diaspora nextwork. I have a feeling you going to blow up. Phill Scott has a 1.1 million subscribers. I think a lot will come and check your channel for beauty tips and history. And warning so will the trolls. So don't take them seriously.
Omg you saw it 😱 lol.. yea, I didnt realize how big his channel was when they reached out to me!! I was so nervous. Happy to hear you thought I did a good job tho!
@@VivaBellabyXtina I like political stuff and trolling. But I do respectable trolling going after racist. Phill Scott is pro black and is trying to build relationships with Africa. He is a pan africanist.
@@VivaBellabyXtina you gave honest and respectful answers with out taken the questions personal. Good job.
@@godzillamegatron3590 Thank you 😊
That doesn’t make any sense. Why would the military bomb the capitol WHILE Reid Cabral was there ????
I wish you posted the sources you used! Not because I don't believe you, but so I can prove this youtube video is a reliable source and also have a chance to read on your sources to learn more.
Great video. Not much has changed.
I thought it was then Vice-President Richard Melhous Nixon who made that statement about Rafael Trujillo being our S.O.B under the Eisenhower administration.
Thanks for the video. Really informative.
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Great informative piece
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The USA has done so many invasions in the Caribbean. Just like the Spanish did. Cuba 🇨🇺 Haiti 🇭🇹 Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Grenada 🇬🇩 and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
The USA needs to stay out of other nations business.
Godzilla Megatron they won’t
@Marquis 912 Germany did it with our help. 'Google IBM's role in Nazi Germany>
Wishful thinking
@Marquis 912 8million? Pretty sure ww2 cost the lives of atleast 60million people.not sure how many people Germany killed,but I'm sure it's much higher than 8millon
@Marquis 912 Every nation as a right to self determination. D.r. was not invading no other country.
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Amazing information!
Thank you!
And today DR is the largest Caribbean economy, with strong US ties, and they make more progress every year. Youre welcome. Looking forward to a vacation there
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Yeah they depend on US economy. But they are not the biggest carribean economy.
@@aferrer74 You've said that with no proof, you sound upset and illogical, go find a subreddit to cry in this isn't a video for you.
@@aferrer74 ahhh yes they are... if you say puerto rico that don't count fyi...
Seguir a US = south Korea (poder economico mundial)
Seguir a cuba= Venezuela (pobresa mayor que la de Haiti)
MI PREGUNTA, CUAL CONBIENE MAS?
Usa es un país en decadencia ya no vale la pena seguir a los yankis
I wish there was more info on this conflict
wow. didn't know this. so if the U.S. occupied there for a few years and then let Trujillo rule, he basically was "our SOB".
Great video as allways xtina. Thank you for presenting an accurate representation of the history.
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Not trying to start controversy? But would the Dominican people be better off if they was under communism??? Imagine DR like Cuba, imagine a massive refugee flow into the US because of communist govt. IM just saying.... still US policy on latin America will always be subjective and complicated.
Na, don't think they would be better off! The issue here tho is that president Bosch, who was democratically elected (he didn't stage a revolution or coup to get in power, he won the people's vote) was _accused_ of being communist, but he wasn't. Was he more liberal, especially compared to Trujillo's government, yes, but he was not a communist. I think those who opposed him used the communist fear which was high at the time to their advantage by accusing him of being communist. While there was a communist party in DR, and they did support the constitutionalists, they were not the ones the people were pushing for to be in power.
But yes I agree, U.S. policy in Latin America is always gonna be complicated.
@@VivaBellabyXtina America is very familiar with J. Bosch, but he isn't a saint either.. he had associated himself with Castro, a big No No especially back in those days...
@@VivaBellabyXtina Also there was bigger forces in play, every communist, especially in the western hemisphere was also associated with the Soviet Union, Americas Enemy.. Uncle Sam will do what it has to do, that's the Cold war for ya.
@@VivaBellabyXtina You never know, things could have escalated to Haiti(Papa Doc) and Elsewhere. Who knows.. yes it was bad, but could have been alot worse
@@riccorich Yea, I hear ya! I get it. The threat of communism itself was very real!
I rather The Americans come than a Communist regime or fascist ideology, though its quite obvious there was never a communist problem in the land UNTIL AMERICA CLAIMED THERE WAS. There has been quite the fascist problem of past.. and Balaguer was just another fascist..
Is this why there are a lot of Dominicans in NYC?
Dominicans were among the first non-native to set foot in New York
Lots of Dominicans go to NYC to work and whenever they think of the US, the Big Apple is the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, whenever I visit Santo Domingo people there talk to me and think I'm from NYC, so I often have to tell them that I'm not.
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No they only remember Haiti
No, we remember all our wars. Spain, france, haiti, united states 2 times 1916/1965 and irak 2003 The constitutionalists are heroes in the Dominican Republic.
Good Video
Thank you!
@@VivaBellabyXtina your welcome , i saw you on the Phill show earlier and figured I'll check out you channel, and you have some good stuff up
The real story was Brazil and the United States that invaded
I'm gonna send you something. It is not a video suggestion just a little info :)
I just found out my grandpa fought in the war as a Dominican which he is and I'm an american so it's weird because we live together
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Good analysis but overly simplistic
Thank you, and yes it was just a general overview
Can u do a video about all the racist/colorist tik toks about black people & especially black women is getting ridiculous at this point & I'm over it at this point I thought tik tok was a app u go on to fun & make funny videos not to display hate & racism
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@@VivaBellabyXtina yes it's really bad to a point a black girl made video crying about the colorist/racist things people do on tik tok & some the videos come from black boys
@@TyCe.Anferno I saw that video of that girl crying 😓
Anfernee Millner stop giving attention to racist white people ..... stop giving racism an audience
america is built on racism they feed off of that..
Maybe I'm misinterpretting it, but for me the tone of this video is that the USA shouldn't have "invaded" in 1965 and that it did something wrong by trying to stop a civil war. This is the reason the USA is hesitant to assist Haiti right now. Peace keeping is difficult work. In the 1950s and 60s the USA was fighting communism. There were definitely many missteps in that process but I don't believe this was one of them. We will never know for sure what would have happened had the USA not intervened, but I suspect it would have been much worse for the people of the Rupublica Dominicana.
From a very, very leftist perspective...
So according to your criticism the US should have stayed out of it and let the Dominican people become the next Cubans.. snowflake.
We wouldn’t have became a cuba that’s cap all the speculations were cap just USA going into another country to cause harm but we ain’t step back not one step 🇩🇴 DIOS PATRIA Y LIBERTAD WE ARE NOT THE ONES
I think usa better stay out of other countrys bussines and let every country decide what they want. And dont go to invade and kill inocents. I think. Capitalist. Comunism. Anything. If some country want take decisions how and what to do. Like a free country. What u think?
@@milianoelrey3636DR didn’t stand a chance, they just appointed a puppet that played by USA rules that’s all. Juan Bosch had communist ideas, USA don’t like it. Once USA knew they had a guy would play by their rules it was a wrap.
That wasn't an invasion they asked for help against the rebels stop lying out your teeth
Read some books
Read some books..invasion and kill inocents for fun to practice . What planet do u live?
Bro Dominicans swear Haitian occupation was worse than the entirety of Spain taking a shit on our island this has been disproven time again
Did haiti occupy RD?
YES
But they came on invitation
Then assisted liberate Dominican Republic from Spain again
Stop lying, Haiti invaded the DR for economic and political reasons. Haitians say they freed us then because generations of Dominicans were traumatized by Haiti's treatment of Dominicans. Even today, Dominican truck drivers are murdered when they enter Haiti. Dominicans We know our history well, stop lying
Should have let Russian in and they would still be cooking with wood.
Aleast they dont invade🤫🤔
Do you read the future? Aleast russian dont invaded and killed inocents for fun