What are some of the current events in this country?

JAN. 12, 2014
Dominican Republic's Lago Enriquillo and neighboring Lac Azuei in Haiti are rising rapidly, flooding and submerging farms and ranches and displacing thousands of people; lakes have always had rising waters but never this large; cause unknown, but consortium of scientists from United States and Dominican Republic are focusing on changing climate patterns as main culprit.
DEC. 13, 2013
Op-Ed article by Prof Lorgia Garcia-Pena condemns the unjust ruling by the Dominican Constitutional Court that denies citizenship rights to those born to undocumented people; contends ruling is particularly extreme given that it is retroactive to 1929, putting those who know no other country than the Dominican Republican in civic