Since it was discovered by Columbus in 1492, Hispaniola has known great wealth and deep poverty.
Ever since Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola in 1492, Haiti's history has been brutal.
In 1821, The Dominican Republic, comprising the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, declared independence from Spain.
Of course, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
In 1495, during his second voyage across the Atlantic, he brought four jacks and two jenny donkeys to the island of Hispaniola.
What made this neighbourly gesture remarkable was that the two countries that share the island of Hispaniola have long been divided by mutual suspicion.
Haiti - which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic - is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere.
The center of the storm is expected to move across the northeastern Caribbean Sea Monday night and approach the island of Hispaniola Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Gustav lost strength in the Hispaniola strike, falling back to tropical-storm status, but the hurricane center predicted that Gustav would regain strength, cross Jamaica and become a hurricane again Friday.
Vale and his colleagues are studying orchids throughout the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico) to reconstruct their evolutionary history and analyze the effect of pollinators in their development.
The poorer, more crowded third of the island of Hispaniola, it was once the heart of the world's richest sugar colony, providing France with a quarter of its wealth in the late 18th century.
If there is a mass flight of refugees from Haiti, many are also likely to try to cross into the Dominican Republic which occupies the remaining two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola exacerbating the economic and political crisis there.
More than 250 years later, when Spain ceded Hispaniola (a region encompassing the Dominican Republic and Haiti) to France in 1795, his bones took yet another journey to keep him within Spanish possession, this time to Havana, Cuba.
Although the unprecedented urban displacement provoked by the earthquake has not led to a stampede of Haitians attempting to cross the border to the western side of the island of Hispaniola, it has exposed migrants, particularly women, to new situations of vulnerability which may lead to human trafficking.
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