President Donald Trump is backing his threats with a large-scale military build-up in the Caribbean.
More than 10 warships, including the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, have been conducting drills.
15,000 American troops are in the region and about 5,000 of them in Puerto Rico.
Some of Washington’s allies in the Caribbean are offering support.
An agreement with the Dominican Republic will allow the US military limited access to the country for refuelling and staging.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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venezulia has the right to strike all those countries aiding america/
Shame on DR
1:14 absolutely zero absolutely nothing l that’s what you get
They will be bomb by us Jamaicans ,Cubans ,Trinidadians and Haitians! Nobody wants the criminal homosexual Americans in our zone .Russia and China will continue to enable us !House slave nation guh suck unuh Mother
"Giving up our sovereignty." Bro you live in a US client state.
DR and US have a great, healthy relationship. American tourism to DR is booming while US is home to over 2.4 million DR citizens! 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇴
I mean, the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 is used to naughty and unstable neighbours (i.e., Haiti 🇭🇹)
Perhaps the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 will get more leeway in dealing with Haiti 🇭🇹 in exchange for supporting US military operations.
Dominican Republic is No S. Domingo … But Little Island Between Guadalupe and Martinique ….for
US aggression to Venezuela….how much ???
Deal with America, devils job
Russia,China,Iran,and North Korea should have to supply heavy weapons to Venezuela against America
😢😢😢😢😢Love you all wendy
We own the Dominican Republic 😂
For too long the USA has tried diplomacy. Now it’s time for action
I feel so sorry for these countries being militarily occupied by the USA. They're defenseless against these bullies.
Dominican Republic is a full Cia base.
latin america is filled with traitors and slaves to america
Too unfortunate turn of events!…. Trump's egoism!… midsummer madness!…are there no other options of dealing with drug cartels?
DomiNAZIS🇩🇴 aiding daddy Trump
Zeg nee tegen de duivel.voorkomen is beter dan genezen.kijk wat er gebeurt in Venezuela de Amerikaanse olie maatschappij chevron is weg uit Venezuela dan met geweld willen ze weer daar hebben hoe gebeurt dat met oorlog .dat gaat gebeuren met guyana. typisch imperialisme.ze willen venezuela komen koloniseren.
Free drug trade
I love how al jazzeera comments are full of the dumbest people on this planet 😂
Boycott DR.
It’s so sad that so many people seemingly lack the ability to think critically, ask questions, and hold people accountable.
Dominican Republic would be dumb not to side with the USA, they also need to clean up gangs and criminals.
Thats great news💪 socialism and communism have no place in the Americas💯
Look closely at the Western Hemisphere today — a region that loves to preach unity, heritage, and brotherhood — yet repeatedly betrays its own neighbors. The Dominican Republic opening its airspace to the United States for operations against Venezuela is not an isolated act. It is part of a long, embarrassing tradition across the Caribbean and Latin America: selling out one another for foreign approval, even when the people they betray share the same history, the same wounds, the same liberation story.
There is no excuse for this kind of betrayal.
Not culturally.
Not historically.
Not morally.
Not strategically.
How can a Hispanic Caribbean nation help a foreign superpower pressure another Hispanic nation — Venezuela — especially when Venezuela’s independence was shaped by Haiti itself? How can the region forget where its freedom came from?
Because in the 19th century, when Latin America was suffocating under Spanish rule, Haiti was the one nation bold enough to intervene. Haiti armed Bolívar. Haiti sheltered him. Haiti demanded the abolition of slavery as the price of its support. Haiti changed the trajectory of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the entire Latin world.
Meanwhile, during the Dominican Republic’s earliest, most fragile years, when recolonization was a real threat, Haiti defended them, standing as a shield with no reward, no gratitude, no repayment.
Yet today, the same region that Haiti helped build repeatedly turns its back — not just on Haiti, but on one another.
A Western Hemisphere that learned nothing from its past.
A region that fractures itself at the slightest push from foreign powers.
A region that swaps loyalty for political favors and trades sovereignty for recognition.
A region that proclaims unity but practices betrayal.
From north to south, the pattern is identical:
Leaders align with whoever holds the most power, even if it means endangering a neighbor, undermining a brother nation, or erasing the sacrifices that made their independence possible.
And the Dominican Republic’s cooperation against Venezuela is a perfect example — a symbol of how quickly regional principles crumble when foreign authority knocks. Instead of remembering shared struggles, shared ancestry, and shared liberation, governments in this hemisphere fold into geopolitical puppetry, repeating the same mistakes century after century.
Contrast that with Haiti.
The only nation in the Western Hemisphere that never bowed to external control.
The only Black warrior republic that stood against every imperial power.
The only country that did not betray its neighbors for political convenience.
The only nation that lifted others — Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic itself — without ever compromising its values.
Haiti never sold out its region.
Haiti never helped an empire attack a neighbor.
Haiti never abandoned the moral code of 1804.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hemisphere — Dominican Republic included — continues to fracture itself through smallness of vision, weakness of leadership, and historical amnesia.
So yes, let this be said plainly:
The Western Hemisphere suffers not because foreign powers are strong, but because the region keeps betraying itself.
And in that landscape of repeated failure, only one nation still holds its dignity intact:
Long live the Haitian Revolution of 1804 — the only revolution in this hemisphere that never betrayed its purpose and never betrayed its people.
Venezuela must only target Dominican republic with Shaheed Drones and balistic missiles once they'll not absorb the fight
Caribbean has been a zone of human & drug trafficking for decades.
Just witnessed a missile take off….. on a resort in Punta Cana
Latino selling out latino
Great opportunity for Dominican Republic, since their wish to be colonized by USA.
Trump's Army Move Invading Venezuela 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nothing
God bless America
How do you help a country who invaded you 3 times.
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC🇩🇴 TRAFFIC DRUGS TO ALL THE CARIBBEAN!!!
They're just scared that if they don't cooperate with the US the USA is going to target them too
Shame on my country for assisting in this unlawful invasion
Friendly reminder that the US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic is an Active CIA agent. You choose the Carrot or get the Stick. Dominicans remember all too well what they did to Bosch.
United snakes have Porto Pobre nearby why do they need Dumbminican't repulsive too now. Another $hishow in the making, they can't keep their hands off other countries , America first is oxymoron.
That scumbag is left wing ex congressmen , And as always, it lends itself to damaging the image of the Dominican Republic.
Jose Horacio hablando de soberanía y patriotismo. El chiste se cuenta solo.
We appreciate it DR
Jose Horacio can say whatever he wants but he is not the correct person to talk we know him very well the left do not want to lose another suppoter that are placed in Venezuela, I'm Dominican and I support that nobody can not tell how do you support a country that occupied your country Bravo we need far left out
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maduro and his low iq regime flood DR with cocaine, which local capos move to PR, US, and EU. We dont need that garbage in our country.
Trump take those communists fools out asap.
this will badly damage tourism for Dominican's hopefully the greedy Zionists in Washington learn to stop pillaging
the former legislator thought the USAID money was going to last forever since Rubio cut it off his socialist HIS GROUP OF SOCIALIST COMMUNIST LEECHES ARE CRYING Unfortunately, the Dominican party system gives money to his group, and he won't have the opportunity to learn what work is, like a good woke communist Also, when he says that the United States has not treated the Dominican Republic well, he means that they stopped giving millions to his group of freeloaders in his party.
Embarrassing News coverage…. "Lack of a transparency" because a D.R. soldier orders an unannounced news reporter not to film ..is ridiculous!!!!! Worst News Channel EVER!!!!!!!