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Santo Domingo’s RD$9 Billion Centenary Games: Fiscal Necessity or Infrastructure Investment?
As Santo Domingo hosts the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games, a expenditure of over RD$9 billion raises key questions around regional competitiveness, public procurement, and infrastructure legacy.
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Santo Domingo’s RD$9 Billion Centenary Games: Fiscal Necessity or Infrastructure Investment?
As Santo Domingo hosts the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games, a expenditure of over RD$9 billion raises key questions around regional competitiveness, public procurement, and infrastructure legacy.
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The 100-Year Audacity: How the Central American and Caribbean Games Rewrote Regional Sports History
A century ago, Latin America didn’t wait for permission from global sports authorities to build its own arena. Here is how a desperate idea in 1924 birthed the world’s oldest regional games—and why Santo Domingo 2026 proves it still matters.
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Santo Domingo’s RD$9 Billion Centenary Games: Fiscal Necessity or Infrastructure Investment?
As Santo Domingo hosts the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games, a expenditure of over RD$9 billion raises key questions around regional competitiveness, public procurement, and infrastructure legacy.
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The 100-Year Audacity: How the Central American and Caribbean Games Rewrote Regional Sports History
A century ago, Latin America didn’t wait for permission from global sports authorities to build its own arena. Here is how a desperate idea in 1924 birthed the world’s oldest regional games—and why Santo Domingo 2026 proves it still matters.
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Santo Domingo’s RD$9 Billion Centenary Games: Fiscal Necessity or Infrastructure Investment?
As Santo Domingo hosts the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games, a expenditure of over RD$9 billion raises key questions around regional competitiveness, public procurement, and infrastructure legacy.
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The 100-Year Audacity: How the Central American and Caribbean Games Rewrote Regional Sports History
A century ago, Latin America didn’t wait for permission from global sports authorities to build its own arena. Here is how a desperate idea in 1924 birthed the world’s oldest regional games—and why Santo Domingo 2026 proves it still matters.
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The World’s Most Infamous Plastic Chair Belongs to Everyone (and No One)
Bad Bunny didn’t put high design on his album cover—he put two white plastic Monobloc chairs. Here is how an unpatented, ultra-cheap piece of plastic quietly conquered the Caribbean and the world.
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Why Don’t Dominicans Play Soccer? The Geopolitical Game Behind the Caribbean’s Baseball Obsession
It isn’t about climate, talent, or geography. From Cuban sugar revolutionaries to American Marines and French-leaning elites, the sports we worship were decided by 19th-century geopolitical machinery.
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The Brochure Lie: Why We Need to Stop Ranking Caribbean Islands and Start Fixing the Model
Every winter, millions of travelers engage in a familiar ritual. They open a laptop, scroll through high-definition images of turquoise waters and white sand beaches, and search for the definitive answer to a single question: Which Caribbean island is the best? We are obsessed with rankings. We sort destinations from worst to best based on…
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A Sea of Uncertainty: How the Global Slowdown is Reshaping the Caribbean
To look at a map of the Caribbean is to look at a beautiful, fragmented mosaic. We are a region of diverse languages, shared history, and breathtaking landscapes. But economically, we share another profound reality: we are small, open archipelagos deeply exposed to the shifting winds of the global marketplace. As 2026 unfolds, those global…
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As Santo Domingo hosts the 25th Central American and Caribbean Games, a expenditure of over RD$9 billion raises key questions around regional competitiveness, public procurement, and infrastructure legacy.
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The 100-Year Audacity: How the Central American and Caribbean Games Rewrote Regional Sports History
A century ago, Latin America didn’t wait for permission from global sports authorities to build its own arena. Here is how a desperate idea in 1924 birthed the world’s oldest regional games—and why Santo Domingo 2026 proves it still matters.
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Why Don’t Dominicans Play Soccer? The Geopolitical Game Behind the Caribbean’s Baseball Obsession
It isn’t about climate, talent, or geography. From Cuban sugar revolutionaries to American Marines and French-leaning elites, the sports we worship were decided by 19th-century geopolitical machinery.
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With decades of experience in international trade and over 30 years based in the Dominican Republic, CaribDom brings a deeply disciplined, realistic, and unvarnished perspective to Caribbean economic and cultural analysis.
Moving between macro-level trade logistics, art brokerage, and global supply chain dynamics, his writing effortlessly cuts through the superficial marketing noise of the travel sector.
By fusing a sophisticated understanding of international market forces with the raw, ground-level realities of island economies, his signature style demands absolute technical precision, analytical rigor, and a fierce dedication to structural truth over corporate illusion.
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