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Trujillo With Japanese Women And Children

Trujillo's early immigration policies were based on complex motives with personal choices and with nationalistic view. Trujillos government decided to take 25,000 Japenese people and give them jobs as farmers. This was beneficial to the Dominican Government because it gave them cheap labor which produced 25 percent of all of Dominican Republic cash crops. As the country is famous for its lucrative groth of sugar cane, coffe bean, and tobacco plants; Those crops make up most of the countries Growth Annual Product. The countries economical growth in the 1930's led to a great expansion of the wealth in sorrounding Carribean Islands. The economic boom also provided Dominican Republic to expand on their military strength and create closer ties to the American government. The strenghten ties led to the Good Neighbor policy. The "Good Neighbor Policy" was introduced by Franklyn D. Roosevelt in 1933. It returned control of Dominican Customs back to the Dominican government. Until then, Dominican Customs Offices had been under the administration and control of the U.S. Government. This sparked similar treaties in Jamiaca and the Bahamian Islands.

 

Oscar H. Horst; Katsuhiro Asagiri

Geographical Review, Vol. 90, No. 3. (Jul., 2000), pp. 335-358.

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