Six people are being treated for gunshot wounds after violence broke out at a meeting of the main opposition party in the Dominican Republic. Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) leader Miguel Vargas ...

Voting takes place today in Hazleton for president – of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic allows citizens overseas to vote, and grants dual citizenship, so some people who cast ballots ...

Emmanuel Santos looks at the background to the re-election victory of Leonel Fernández, the president of the Dominican Republic and one of the few remaining strong U.S. allies in Latin America.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominicans waited in lines at voting stations across the country Sunday to choose a new president in an election race between a brash former president, Hipólito ...

A chronology of key events: 1492 - Christopher Columbus visits the island, which he names Hispaniola, or "Little Spain". The capital Santo Domingo is home to Catedral Primada de America, the oldest ...

Latin America has been described as a living political museum. Nowhere is the propensity to preserve the past and interject it into politics of the present more evident than in the Dominican Republic.

While Haiti continues to seeth in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Duvalier dictatorship, citizens in the neighboring country of the Dominican Republic have been engaged in the task of electing a ...

Ruling party candidate Danilo Medina has claimed victory in the Dominican Republic’s hotly disputed presidential election, avenging his defeat 12 years ago by opposition candidate Hipolito Mejia. With ...

Footage show chairs being used as weapons, as the BBC's Beth McLeod reports Six people are being treated for gunshot wounds after violence broke out at a meeting of the main opposition party in the ...

1496 - Spaniards set up first Spanish colony in Western hemisphere at Santo Domingo, which subsequently serves as capital of all Spanish colonies in America. 1697 - Treaty of Ryswick gives western ...