Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Separated by wall and history | How We Got Here

There was a party atmosphere as President Luis Abinader celebrated his re-election in the Dominican Republic. After Sunday’s vote, he vowed unity, impartial leadership, and better times ahead. The orderly election was a world away from its violence-stricken neighbor Haiti, with which it shares the island of Hispaniola. Close to Port-au-Prince there is an ethnic Polish community, based around Casale - known as Lepologne. Join Jan Darasz and his guest Joanna Gocłowska-Bolek from the University of Warsaw in this episode of How We Got Here to find out why the Dominican Republic succeeded and Haiti became a failed state ruled by mob and what history Poland and the island of Haiti.

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