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In 1990, Rodríguez also acquired the Thrifty franchise in Puerto Rico. In 1992, he sold his stake in the company to his Spanish partners to start other businesses. In 1992, Rodríguez bought the Domino's Pizza franchise for the Dominican Republic, opening the first store in the country a year later. [1]
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has shaken both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The quake was recorded just before 2 a.m. Tuesday local time and centered in the ...
Businesses in Puerto Rico dependent on beach activity have faced a turbulent year as restrictions on beaches have alternatively eased and tightened. 'Domino effect' of beach closures batters ...
The illegal or undocumented component of the Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico has increased over recent decades, becoming large enough to attract great attention, both in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The first recorded illegal trip took place in 1972, and perhaps 28% of all Dominicans in Puerto Rico were undocumented in 1996 ...
The reasons offered were simply that the island was closer to Santo Domingo (presently the Dominican Republic) than to Puerto Rico, and that it had a small population which could help the colony's economy in overall agricultural production. However, the petition was turned down and the island continued to remain politically part of Puerto Rico.
Use: Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: December 22, 1895; 129 years ago () by pro-independence members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico exiled in New York City; members identified colors as red, white, and blue but did not specify color shades; some historians have presumed members adopted light blue shade based on the light blue flag of the ...