Voter Anger Spreads in Dominican Republic’s Miracle Economy
- Booming economic growth obscures rising income inequality
- Polls suggest 2020 elections may be challenge for ruling party
Election workers wait for voters in Santo Domingo on Oct. 6.
Photographer: Tatiana Fernandez/AP Photo
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Baking under the Caribbean sun and hemmed in between the banks of the polluted Isabela and Ozama rivers, the impoverished neighborhood of Capotillo in the Dominican Republic’s capital, Santo Domingo, is a face of this nation outsiders rarely see.
Here and in other neighborhoods like it, the long-ruling Dominican Liberation Party, or PLD, is struggling to retain support ahead of elections next year.