11.   The highway gave the Caribs easier market access for their coconuts and bananas, but the tribe remained wary of outsiders and mistrustful of the Dominican government.

12.   The reports sent Dominican government officials searching for them along the Dominican north coast.

13.   They say they are victims of modern piracy, and they cannot understand why the Dominican government has refused to return their belongings.

14.   U.S. officials insisted that the Dominican government either extradite or imprison him.

15.   A high-level source in the Dominican government, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the asylum question would be on the table.

16.   A series of U.S.-backed Dominican governments, however, shunned Castro, especially those of six-term conservative President Joaquin Balaguer.

17.   At that time, he and Dominican President Leonel Fernandez discussed possible safe haven for the Tupac Amaru rebels, Dominican government aides said.

18.   At that time, he and Fernandez discussed possible safe haven for the Tupac Amaru rebels, Dominican government aides said then.

19.   But the Dominican government has promised to crack down on the trade before, and despite patrols by the Dominican Navy and U.S. authorities, hundreds keep coming.

20.   But the Dominican government has refused to grant extraditions, citing a decades-old law banning it from sending its nationals abroad to face trial.