Summary of ¿A quien le DEBERÍA PERTENECER la ISLA DE MONA?

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The video discusses the history and current status of the island of Mona, which is located between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Mona has a long history of being exploited by Europeans, but it is now a protected natural reserve. The island is relatively popular for adventure tourism and hunting, but it is also frequented by Haitian and Dominican illegal immigrants who cross the canal between the two islands.

• 00:00:00 The island of Mona, located between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, is an ecologically-rich island with a rich history, including pirate treasure and German submarine mines. Dominican-born women discuss the island's geographical proximity to the Dominican Republic, but its status as part of Puerto Rico in terms of maritime law makes it territorially irrelevant to the Dominican Republic. As a result, Mona has no legal claim to the island, but based on the same law, Puerto Rico also has no claim to Mona. Juan Ponce de León, famous for being the first European to land on the island and for founding Puerto Rico's first colony, established an encomienda on Mona in 1502. This encomienda served as a center of supply for food to his conquest of Puerto Rico. As a result, Mona's history as part of Puerto Rico is long and complex.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses the history of the island of Mona, which was first colonized by Europeans for the purpose of exploitation. The island was later given the protection of the United States government, and became a forest reserve in 1919. The interest in the island grew especially during the era of piracy, as rumors of treasure on the island circulated. However, no treasure has ever been found and the island's true treasure is its ecology and location.
• 00:10:00 The Island of Mona is a natural reserve managed by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources and Environment. It is making a great effort to rehabilitate the island and its endemic animals. This has allowed limited hunting of wild pigs and cattle in a controlled manner, although it is still remote from Puerto Rico. The island is relatively popular for adventure tourism and hunting, and always has a small detachment of park rangers. The Boracay boas can come to the island with a prior permit to camp and hunt, but as it is so close to the Dominican Republic, it is surprisingly frequented by Haitian and Dominican illegal immigrants. In the 1970s, immigration began illegally crossing the canal between the two islands, known as the "ocean waves." This journey, which takes around 24 hours, was made worse by the fact that captains of yachts would leave their passengers on Mona, pretending it was Puerto Rico, because they were lost. I am not telling this story because I am better than you, I am telling it because you have a look that is even worse. Because Mona doesn't have a beach or water, there are no precise data on how many people have illegally crossed the canal, because sometimes only the abandoned boats of the voyage are found