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In this April 5, 2017 photo, a baseball player exercises while employees from the Ministry of Environment clean up the Fray Anton de Montesinos beach in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. According to government statistics, only 15 percent of visitors to the Dominican Republic spent time in Santo Domingo and only 3 percent slept there, drawn away by all-included packages at beach resorts and dissuaded by the lack of high-quality lodging inside Santo Domingo's walled city. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, men fish at Fray Anton de Montesinos beach in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The colonization of the Americas began in Santo Domingo, which was founded in 1496 by Christopher Columbus' brother Bartolome and features the continent's first cathedral, first hospital and first university. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, a boy reaches out to a doorbell in the San Anton neighborhood of the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As Santo Domingo is in the midst of a extensive renovation project, business owners are delighted, but residents are watching nervously, fearful that they will be priced out by a surge of stylish new restaurants and boutiques. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, a bath tub stands in one of the rooms inside the Casa del Diseñador, part of the Casas del XVI boutique hotel in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. According to government statistics, only 15 percent of visitors to the Dominican Republic spent time in Santo Domingo and only 3 percent slept there, drawn away by all-included packages at beach resorts and dissuaded by the lack of high-quality lodging inside Santo Domingo's walled city. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, a man walks by a building under renovation, in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Business owners are delighted by the renovation but residents of Santo Domingo's walled city are watching nervously, fearful that they will be priced out by a surge of stylish new restaurants and boutiques.(AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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In this April 5, 2017 photo, people walk on El Conde street in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo, Latin America's oldest colonial city is aiming for a rebound, pouring millions into renovating centuries-old buildings in hopes of getting more of the Dominican Republic's five million tourists a year to spend more time in Santo Domingo's historic center. (AP Photo/Tatiana Fernandez)
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FILE - In this March 6, 1948, file photo, Jackie Robinson, first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returns an autograph book to a fan in the stands, during the Dodgers' spring training in Ciudad Trujillo, now Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Baseball holds tributes across the country on Jackie Robinson Day, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the 67th anniversary marking the end of the game's racial barrier. (AP Photo/File)
