Talking about this with a friend.
The DR and Haiti share an island, but that is about all. The DR was a Spanish colony, and Haiti, French. It was a slave colony, sort of a poor man's devil island. No one who was sent their lived very long. When the French left, there was no one remaining with any governing experience. Seems like the typical French pattern for colonies in the New World.

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