Jarabacoa

There is something deeply fascinating about our people’s ability to turn financial hardship into a living mythology. If you examine the famous legend of the “botijas” closely—those supposed treasures buried by grandparents in the yard behind the house—you realise that it is nothing more than the Caribbean version of the search for El Dorado. It is a narrative adapted to a country that, for generations, distrusted its governments and the volatility of the local currency more than the very ground beneath its feet…