"Modern Form of Slavery": Haitians at Dominican Sugar Plantations Work Under Inhumane Conditions

We go with Democracy Now! correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila to the Dominican Republic, where many Haitian migrants and their descendants work on sugar plantations under conditions amounting to forced labor and live in heavily underresourced communities known as bateyes. Many bateyes do not have electricity or running water. We speak to local residents and members of the Reconocido movement, which fights for the rights of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, about the workers' inhumane treatment and their lack of legal status in the country, as well as about efforts to improve living conditions in the bateyes, such as an initiative spearheaded by the Puerto Rican environmental group Casa Pueblo to install solar panels in the communities. "The right of energy has to be for everyone," says Casa Pueblo's executive director, Arturo Massol-Deyá, who shares how his organization is working in solidarity with batey residents to disrupt the cycle of poverty and prepare for climate adaptation.
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[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@7th808s]

It gets even better: The Fanjul brothers were born in Cuba. They were ones of the "poor" Cubans that "fled" the country. This is a perfect example to explain to people what would happen to the Cuban people if they hadn't had a revolution. Literal forced labor.

[@wilber2k06]

​@@7th808s This is what this really all means ==> "Meet the Sugar Barons Who Used Both Sides of American Politics to Get Billions in Subsidies BY GUY ROLNIK September 19, 2016" (article in Promarket - ProMarket is dedicated to discussing how competition tends to be subverted by special interests. The posts represent the opinions of their writers, not necessarily those of the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, or its faculty)

[@BeatrizMartinez-dy3oy]

😢

[@PalBatey]

American company as are most of the tourist's hotels in the country. If they feel it's a form of slavery, a few hour's bus ride will have them at the Haitian border. Coño...!

[@damonmelendez856]

@@PalBateyexactly. They are free to leave whenever they want

[@moe2459]

How about building sugar plantations in Haiti and letting Haitians work for Haitians. Fix Haiti and Haitians will thrive in their own country.

[@tavroaar8173]

This is not a Dominican company! This is a US company !!!

[@wilber2k06]

You're right; some people don't want to accept the fact that's an American company. The reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas (they own Central Romana). The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. That means getting a fair-trial in Florida would be nearly impossible. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history against Central American countries.

[@jrutz787]

Yeah right, but dominicans are taking advantage as well.

[@kitebeachinnbeachinn2888]

I am Haitian in general Dominican are nice people, and this is an American company, are there a lots of companies globally which do not apply slavery? what about Amazon warehouse workers o McDonald's while the owners are billion the people who make the money cannot pay rent.

[@KyriaLouis]

Most dominicans are not nice to Haitians sousou

[@DaniG.German883]

@@KyriaLouisfor good reason

[@marcossnchz9820]

@@KyriaLouishow many dominicans do you know personally?

[@1mih2lis31]

​@user-ik9dp1ls8s and i take that you personally know millions of dominicans ? You just a racist against dominicans

[@Haitiforlife]

Fucking fake

[@QueensNY718]

She is not Dominican. She is a Haitian born accidentally in the DR. Haitians need to stop denying their heritage.

[@Sickles197]

Dominicans don’t own these companies so why should we be forced to this! Domino is a American company

[@Joker-no1uh]

I mean he is Cuban, but yes, lives in the US

[@AdultMoobyStarr]

Damn sounds like you're the real victim here.

[@Xenlacasa45]

@@AdultMoobyStarrwhy should Dominicans be responsible for Haitians ?

[@AdultMoobyStarr]

@@Xenlacasa45 Tf ain’t nobody said that. But u don’t deserve a better standard of living just cuz u were born on one side of an island. U ain’t do shit to be born there it was all just luck.

[@kennethhilton8700]

Is this happening in America???? IT'S IN D.R FOR CHRIST SAKE!!! The people who own the country and is aloowing this slavery is responsible!!!!!!!!!!! @Xenlacasa45

[@NightagainEngineering]

Where are the billions given to Hattians during the biggest earthquake time they had ????

[@robertlouis9387]

They say the Clintons have the money

[@omarnina9770]

Biased journalism Why don't you hear the Dominican side of the story dealing with a lot of illegal immigrants being DR a poor country as well and the international community doesn't do anything to help those poor peoaple that is the saddest part of the story, there is no Dominican solution to the Haitian crisis........

[@tallslim360]

How come the Dominican Republic is still poor if it has the highest economy in the Caribbean today?🤔

[@omarnina9770]

@@tallslim360 It is a so-called developing country

[@mrwest2986]

Central Romana Corporation Sugar company in DR,and the owners are Fanjul Corp. It began operations in 1912 producing sugar. The Fanjul brothers-Cuban born Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr., Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar . Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr.(born 1937) is an American billionaire businessman, and the eldest of the Fanjul brothers, who control a sugar and real estate business valued at US$8.2 billion.

[@MoniTrr-c4t]

It never seems to amaze me that the same that haven't placed in bondage and enslave always do the same and slaving to their own people the way that they were enslaved and this is history repeating itself and it does in a horrible way

[@rogeramezquita5685]

They had also Lebanese roots ironically

[@mrwest2986]

@@MoniTrr-c4t There is nothing worse than what the Haitian gangs are doing to their own people killing, burning them alive, kidnapping and extorting . Which company(Fanjul Corp) is benefiting and located in Florida ,

[@wilber2k06]

@@MoniTrr-c4t Central Romana is an American company. The history of the company started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp (a company/conglomerate in Florida) is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@wilber2k06]

@@rogeramezquita5685 Central Romana is an American company. The history of the company started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp (a company/conglomerate in Florida) is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

My grandmother lived like this in Puerto Rico 100 years ago

[@JoseManuel-jd1yr]

😢😢Banana Republic corrupt Nation

[@papacheezie2838]

WHERE ARE DA HUMAN RIGHTS AND 🤔 😤 UNITED NATION SAY IN THIS INHUMANE SITUATION 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 BIG URSELVES DA DOMINICANA GOVERMENT U ALL NEED TOO BE LOCK UP BEHIND BARS 😢😢😢😢😢 BIG UP

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

@@papacheezie2838 Why the all caps and spelling errors, 90 % of the planet lives in poverty. there are 1 dollar a day 3 a day 5 a day. until first nations income of 80dollars and up a day, that is only 10 % of the world population, some places in Africa and ASIA ARE worse off.

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

@@JoseManuel-jd1yr Puerto Rico has the highest standard of living in the caribbean and LATIN AMERICA.

[@adrianagarrigalopez]

@@LuisVelez-f5h I mean, by what standard...?

[@Maria-zd3ig]

Dominicans you need to sue these companies, these sugar companies are international companies and they are breaking our laws. 😢

[@wilber2k06]

Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@wilber2k06]

In 2021 unfortunately a judge of the Southern District of Florida dismissed a complaint finding a plaintiffs’ allegations that Fanjul owns 35% of Central Romana’s shares through a subsidiary and that Fanjul and Central Romana share 4 overlapping officers and directors were “insufficient to plead an alter ego theory." Bear in mind, the plaintiff were squatters on private property that belongs to Central Romana. This is common in the Caribbean/Central/South America where poor people decide to build hidden makeshift houses on private property unaware of the owners. The plaintiff's lawyers were not able to prove that Central Romana and Fanjul Corp are effectively the same entity. So to date, nobody has ever been able to demonstrate this in court, BUT as a legal tactic, it has worked with other companies (Dominican Republic v. AES Corp - an American GLOBAL utility and power generation company). Since this approach didn't work in 2021, activists and the plaintiffs have been concurrently filing lawsuits in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. IF the lawsuit had proven to be successful, that would have meant the court in Florida could have exercise jurisdiction over Central Romana itself and that the two companies are identical. All sorts of actors in the Dominican Republic would have been able to sue them in the United States.

[@carpediem1667]

Now, we all know that this system was created to favor the white man. Not being racist, just speaking the truth. Officials are being paid to throw complaints out or ignore! This is wrong..wrong!!

[@isaiasgonzalez1919]

The Dominican are powerless

[@wilber2k06]

I think it is more like the American justice system is powerless in making their company accountable. How do they have a trial in the same state (Florida) the company operate? If the company is so integrated into the American political system with Democrats and Republicans, then no one will get a fair trial.

[@timmoore3188]

So cheap labor means cheap sugar, means Americans eat too much sugar and suffer from diabetes.

[@rogeramezquita5685]

The American Government love free labor why do you think all this immigrants are brought now in the states..

[@mikeborrelli193]

Your not deserving enough for sugar. For you and the rest of the US plebs it's high fructose corn syrup..

[@chulo201]

we mere mortals are just small chess pieces which those who control move at their convenience. Nothing is by chance everything has already been calculated and previously premeditated in advance

[@Rebecca-1111]

F&DA right in the name. Food & drugs shouldn't be in the same category. IMHO

[@Angelsangels1969]

"HAITIANS, go through a lot, man"; my word !!!!!!!!

[@MeridithLafluer-ty4pn]

Then stay home

[@TheCollector1985]

​@@MeridithLafluer-ty4pn we should say the same about y'all coming over here to America. Stop being an a hole and care for another.

[@i80748]

At some point they need to fix their own country. Please do that then there is hardly any reason for others to take advantage of you. Where is wyclef Jean

[@subnx4763]

​@@i80748 He's a whole Haitian American and honestly su

[@mamadytraore5797]

​@@i80748how can they fix their own country? When American companies and are in the way.

[@miltoncamilo8974]

Those companies are American companies not Dominican. Do better research. Stop labeling Dominican Republic.

[@wilber2k06]

Agreed; the reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas (like Central Romana in Dominican Republic). The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history against Central American countries.

[@ElizabethPerez-db1xc]

I have beenbon the bus and stopped at a military checkpoint where Haitians are victims of extortion by both bus driver and soldiers. I have been on a bus where a very dark Dominican girl has been humiliated by men at check point as they did not believe she was Dominican and demanded her docs. I have seen too much abuse.

[@rubenelmit1646]

Usa 🇺🇸 citizens are often demanded to produce proof of citizenship within the USA 🇺🇸 as well so rethink

[@Patria_RD]

Maybe she's a Haitian the claim to be Dominican with fake papers, which DR have plenty of those cases all around the country

[@corderovlog3931]

yeah, they're supposed to demand documents at a checkpoint.... you don't need to be smart to know that!!

[@JulioSang]

Ellos no son abligados a trabajar ni a venir a Rep. Dominicana, lo que deben de hacer los países desarrollados EUA, Francia especialmente, es darles asistencia que ayuden a desarrollar su país con educación, infraestructuras, trabajos, instituciones...el dominicano no se beneficia de su trabajo en elaboración de azúcar, eso lo hacen los grandes empresarios.

[@wilber2k06]

Estoy de acuerdo; Central Romana es una empresa estadounidense. Es extraño que este informe no mencione ese detalle importante. Fanjul Group/Corp (compañía estadounidense de Florida) adquirió Central Romana en 1984. La historia de Central Romana comenzó cuando fue creada por el gobierno de EE. UU. a principios del 1900. Solía ​​ser parte de otra empresa americana, Porto Rico Sugar Company, y así era como Puerto Rico (antes Porto Rico) enviaba trabajadores allí. Fanjul Group/Corp es un vasto conglomerado azucarero y de bienes raíces en Estados Unidos y República Dominicana. Tiene filiales Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, las antiguas empresas azucareras Tate & Lyle.

[@theardisgueory1978]

We need a worldwide revolution to bring down these rich white people that continue to exploit black people for Their work We need white people to do the work and provide black people with economic Revival and let's see how long that last

[@rogeramezquita5685]

Those companies are USA owned why they don’t mention this therefore is the 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Problem

[@QueensNY718]

What Alturo wants is that the DR allow 11 millions of Haitians to move to the DR and never be deported. Ask USA your government for help. The DR is not equipped to welcome so many Haitians. Be real and fair Arturo.

[@teslainthehood2521]

4:30 30% of the Dominican health budget is spent on Haitian some hospitals are only occupied by 85-95% of Haitian.

[@vladimirreyes1938]

This people is not interested in facts the want opinions, and perceptions, if they wanted to know the truth they would've investigated.

[@ibrahimsteyn1254]

This is reminiscent of the labour migrant system that existed in colonial South Africa.

[@gedionatphysicsmathelectro1867]

North America

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@lakeside321]

@ @wilber2k06 these company’s are owned by foreigners . Everyone needs to go back to their own countries this is getting ridiculous and confusing.

[@wilber2k06]

​@@lakeside321 I understand what you are saying. The reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas. The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Puebla". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history with Central American countries.

[@JulioSang]

De ninguna manera, nadie los obliga a venir pueden irse cuando quieran. Central Romana es una compañía de EUA.

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@selfautonomy7774]

Thank you very much, only reason is because each one of those organizations hate the DR , this is what this is about human rights that Haitians don't even receive in their own country, this is so one sided , they don't even mention the other 60 percent of the story

[@JamestheChrist]

Greed infects many. Profits over people mentality with many corporations.

[@653Nottingham]

😢..My Dad and Uncle were cane cutters for the sugar cane corp. in Plam Beach county Florida, decades ago. Those conditions then were a little bit than what is going on in D.R. camps now.

[@adrianagarrigalopez]

That is amazing. Palm Beach county had sugar plantations?

[@wilber2k06]

Arturo Massol-Deya from "Casa Puebla" should take them as refugees to Puerto Rico and make them US Citizens. But that's not going to happen because in the 1980s the Puerto Rican government sued the American government to prevent them from sending Haitian refugees to Puerto Rico, they backed off once their were told the refugees would only be there for 1 year before they got send to Florida.

[@MADNEWYORKER914]

That would never happen!!! PR are just as bad as Dominicans when it comes to blacks.

[@earthandwind820]

Wow, you’re desperate in your hatred towards Haitians and not wanting to criticize DR, even though the video largely focuses on this company (yes, with American origin which they should’ve mentioned) and the DR gov….not all Dominican people should be blamed of course. Arturo Deya believes in sovereignty for PR. Carlos Romero Barceló, the governor of PR in 1980, was a statehooder. They have radically different views. Putting them together is laughable for anyone who knows anything about PR. Further, the 1980’s? It’s 2023. Why are you talking about 43 years ago? Casa Pueblo does for many PR what neither the PR or American gov do. Now it does for Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent what the DR gov doesn’t do, along with the American company. Ya, cálmate.

[@wilber2k06]

@@earthandwind820 Humans are following religions that are over 2 thousand years old and there are disputes in the middle east going on just as long. So don't go thinking you can discredit events because they happened 43 years ago. Now, the reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas. The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history with Central American countries.

[@josephguillen187]

@earthandwind820 My question is why casa Pueblo does not go to Haiti and try to help the Haitians in Haiti? If you want to really want to get the cure of a problem you go to the root.

[@rogeramezquita5685]

@@earthandwind820American origin? Is full American wtf are you talking Dominino sugar the sugar you use come from their crops the government don’t have any jurisdiction toward private companies 🤦🏾‍♂️expect to collect taxes. Simple as that ..

[@sharoncox3734]

Stop buying the sugar! May God strengthen the people to leave and shut the business down and may they find good jobs elsewhere. 🙏🏽

[@damonmelendez856]

Haitians could learn to code. Haiti is perfect for a tourist paradise and high-tech mecca of IT services, call centers off shored to French speaking countries like Quebec, African countries etc. So much potential is held by the Haitian people.

[@kreativeforce532]

​@@damonmelendez856with what computers and electricity?

[@damonmelendez856]

@@kreativeforce532 Solar power. Haiti has plenty of sunny land to install solar panels. It’s got potential to be a true Garden of Eden!

[@ariessun7273]

@@damonmelendez856 dude they have prime minister who along with the united states that assassinated their president. and now NATO is using Kenya to invade haiti on the pretense of fighting gangs at the request of the prime minister who helped to assassinate their president. and this is all u.s. and nato supported. so right now they are being silently invaded. solar panels while is a good idea is the least of their worrys right now. they trying to survive an invasion

[@iamjustgreg]

@@damonmelendez856when panels go up, they get stolen quickly! It’s a real problem.

[@cme1713]

SAD the Politicians know that if the DR and HAITI Politicians worked for the people not Foreign Corps both Countries BECOME VERY RICH.

[@ariessun7273]

thats a good way to get assassinated. what happened to all the leaders of foreign countries that tried to work for the people. my government assassinated them. i mean look what we did in south america to control bananas if a leader try that he will be dead before the week is over.

[@rogeramezquita5685]

You don’t know how the economy and USA policy work. If that the case the entire Latino America would be even more richer and powerful than USA the problem that USA companies has put a lot investment in the entire Latin America every product that you buy is American owned overseas and if is not American owned the farmers and other industries are forced to supply this American companies is a whole worldwide monopoly ..

[@MrMAIRENEE]

Dominican Rep. is almost rich, lol.

[@SirLancelotS]

African countries will always be poor

[@Marxist2]

Thank you Casa Pueblo for all you do in Haiti.

[@selfautonomy7774]

They don't do it in Haiti they do it in the dominjcan Republic 😂😂😂

[@queenjefe]

@@selfautonomy7774But they are doing it for the benefit of the Haitian community. Be thankful that Casa Pueblo is doing this in the DR something that the Dominican government should of done many years ago.

[@rogeramezquita5685]

@@queenjefe first of all they are hired by an American company therefore is not the government that should take care of them , second even if the are born and raised in DR by generation 3,4, 5 they still not Dominican Dominican constitution only give citizenship by blood line that means your father or mother or both of your parents need to be Dominicans the same happen with Haitians constitution therefore their upbringing is Dominican but they are Haitians by nationality the government has nothing to do with it , the only thing the government can do is sanction the company but guess who has the power under the surface your American Government so call out to them.

[@Messiah-vi9mk]

@@selfautonomy7774 That is Hayti!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@carloscaceres1329]

The owners of that of that plantation are cuban the fanjul family

[@amaurylast614]

Dominicana de descendencia haitiana 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ella se invento una constitucion nueva. Por ahy viene un trujillo A PONER ORDEN EN REPUBLICA DOMI ICANA.

[@shirleybrooke721]

France did this to Haiti too

[@Maria-zd3ig]

The thing is that these companies are international companies and they are breaking the DR's labor laws.

[@PH7018c]

There was no Haiti back then.. it was a french land stolen from Spain.

[@hotpopcorncake]

Haitians did it To thiere own too. Till this days hatians are enslaving haitians in Haiti. Just like in Africa they still enslaving people too.

[@Messiah-vi9mk]

D.R too!! The're involve in the current situation in Haiti by supporting the gangs with weapons.

[@hotpopcorncake]

@@Messiah-vi9mk Actually it's a Jewish billionaire that supported the Haitians with American weapons. Meanwhile, gate keeping funds for the Haitians.

[@johmirtorres3350]

This is an act of discredit for the Dominican Republic, which has been the only country that has truly helped Haiti, and the international community wants us to take care of the Haitians and their problems, but it will never be like that since it is not our problem, this report only shows what is convenient for one group, central romana is a majority American company, and what they do is their responsibility, not that of the Dominican Republic, if the Puerto Ricans are so concerned about the Haitians, take them away Puerto Rico, but the Dominican Republic owes nothing to Haiti, it is Haiti that owes the Dominican Republic because if it weren't for the Dominicans, Haitians would have starved to death, because you don't make a report that shows the true reality of the Haitians in the Dominican Republic, so that they realize that we Dominicans treat them better than any other country, the bad guys in the movie are you, the press and the international organizations which pretend through lies that the Dominican Republic take charge of the Haitians, but as our patrician Juan Pablo Duarte said: our homeland must be free, sovereign and independent of all foreign domination or the island sinks.

[@wilber2k06]

Agreed; Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@derrickrandall4017]

Thank you to the Puerto Rican group for helping out with Solar Panel. Due to the problems in Haiti I think Puerto Rico should allow 1 million Haitian to migrant to the Island Puerto Rico they only 1 hour away. That would be a great help to the Haitian people.

[@livingminimumwage6359]

We don't exactly have the ability to make that decision ourselves. Talk to our masters/owners up in DC regarding the situation.

[@Marielysmarie]

You crazy we barely can with our people living there making it more difficult they barely got jobs for their own people USA is bigger y'all can take them

[@josephguillen187]

I think that Haitians will be treated better in Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans will give the Haitians jobs housing. Puerto Ricans are better people than Dominicans.All that the Haitians need to do is take a boat and get to Puerto Rico and they will give the Haitians what they need. Besides Puerto Rico does not have many people which perfect because Haitians have many children.

[@theinternetsavedmylife]

​@@josephguillen187 Yeah Puerto Ricans are racist for not letting the Haitians in! 😂

[@aztekempire]

​@josephguillen187 Haitians in México are very welcome. these people works and contribute to the community.

[@JerseyRican]

How about Hispanic farm workers in American plantations?

[@Joker-no1uh]

They are illegally in the country. If they came legally, they would have rights. Illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as citizens

[@hotpopcorncake]

Based Uh no nvm those work hahahaha

[@petermorla8309]

The migrant problem in DR began in the early 20th century during first U.S. occupation of Haiti and DR, when American companies encourage those migrant workers to work Sugar Cane to alleviate peasants from fighting against U.S. military. Ultimately the problem is battling corruption. And acknowledging that DR is not responsible for another Nation's social and economic problems. As we have a right to secure and protect our borders and who is nationalized under the law.

[@rubyclark7595]

I've made my cakes, pies and desserts with Domino sugar for over 50 years... l will find another brand, My Mother who passed away 35 years ago wouldn't use anything but Dominos...It stops now!!!

[@DJK-cq2uy]

A.en. These Republicans need to be stopped ir they'll destroy humanity

[@kalebnbrown]

Me too

[@FreshLyte]

Good luck finding a new ethical sugar. Also don't forget: Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Bananas, Corn I mean the list is long it kind of just keeps going.

[@wilber2k06]

Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@rogeramezquita5685]

The irony even if you find another brand all these companies supply each other

[@talez5361]

Sure, sure, there's no anti-blackness in good old DR, no, it's "colorism" not "racism." Check

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

It all came from Europeans preferring one over the other,

[@FreshLyte]

@@LuisVelez-f5h Europeans only? Tsk Tsk. Somebody needs to do some more reading.

[@gfys756]

​@@LuisVelez-f5hSame in China, India, and Japan. Those evil white European countries!!! 😡😡😡

[@tuckerbugeater]

Euros are responsible for everything@@LuisVelez-f5h

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

@@FreshLyte You need to go back and start school all over again,you missed 90% of it

[@anaserrano1149]

Amy the Central Romana belongs to America, and used to be own by a Puerto Rico's company.

[@workingtoseethelight8244]

It is truly heartbreaking, but also inspiring to see so many people working so hard to make things better. Thank You!

[@Baba-fy1jc]

Lol , that was really a good Joke.😉👍😂😂😂😂😂

[@caligurl8770]

@@Baba-fy1jcmy exact thoughts

[@tc7500]

So many Puertoricans should you said, making things better for Haitians in the DR!

[@ShayBugler-tw6di]

That sounds like such white privilege

[@josephguillen187]

@tc7500 Why Puerto Rican don't try to make things better in Puerto Rico who needs it a lot?

[@rubenrubinos982]

It has been a situation that hasn't changed in 400 years or more and when you say something, it doesn't go well for that person or family. One important reason for the mass exodus in many countries. Looks like it always has been about profit over people!

[@damonmelendez856]

People? Who are we talking about here

[@kreativeforce532]

​@@damonmelendez856the hole you fell out of.

[@keilaseverino4636]

If you’re parents are Haitians you are Haitian, no matter if you was born in DR.

[@reynaldopichardo]

Sarcasm as hell... A US media pointing out a US company (owned by US citizens and run from a US corporation) that employs Haitian braceros and treats them as they did back in slavery day in cotton plantations in Florida. Not one peep out of these facts comes out atop referencing a US citizen from Puerto Rico (Itself a US colony without any rights to vote for the US President) One which economy is sinking by the decade with no relief in view. One thing I do support (which the DR gov and lawmakers don't) is the Jus Solis right to DR citizenship. These kids being born might as well be born to both Haitian undocumented parents without legal residency in the country. But they are and feel themselves anything else but Dominicans and they are! We should fully educate them to our language/culture/etc... We should reap the benefit of these young minds to our country's growth. Race is not an issue. Poverty (extreme poverty is). We need to prepare them to be able to participate in the national economy. If Haiti rejects them and denies them their birthright as the Haitian Jus Sanguinis in their constitution mandates. It's Haiti's loss, our win. We're on the way to losing population replacement in the DR. Let's provide them a bright future and nurture those brains, along with love for the DR as all Dominicans do. Jesus wasn't a blonde or white guy. Even God himself, his skin is of a beautiful bronze color. This media publication reeks of malice and poor investigation/presentation. Hiding the truth is not lying, but neither is the truth in hiding the real facts. Should be ashamed whomever participated in this propaganda and race baiting nonsense.

[@acortez1004]

When did you see God to know the color of his skin? Just curious.

[@Leissamzil]

DR is NOT the only country in the world with the Jus Sanguinis law. Haiti have the same law. We have too many ilegal haitians and A LOT of haitian women giving birth in our country. Imagine if they give citizenship just because they are born in DR? In less than 4 years Dominicans would be minority in their own country. All they have to do is go to the Haitian embassy in DR and get them a Haitian birth certificate which most of them fail to do because they don’t even have any form of identification from their own country.

[@alexanderdelacruz3162]

Jajajaja no, those haitians are going back to Haiti. DR is a poor country, if we knew how to integrate poor people and make them productive we would have already done it with real Dominicans, but we are still figuring out how to achieve it.

[@Sickles197]

And Using a 🇵🇷 🐷 to defame another country in the Caribbean is rich

[@wilber2k06]

Arturo Massol-Deya from "Casa Puebla" should take them as refugees to Puerto Rico and make them US Citizens. But that's not going to happen because in the 1980s the Puerto Rican government sued the American government to prevent them from sending Haitian refugees to Puerto Rico, they backed off once their were told the refugees would only be there for 1 year before they got send to Florida.

[@firefox-kt2rh]

How's that the haitian are always the victims ?

[@xexxe]

Wait until you find out what's going on in Africa...

[@FarmingUnclear]

Cobalt is the next sugar. The spice must flow.

[@TheTaoofEternalWar]

War is God.

[@kalebnbrown]

Don’t forget what’s going on in mars and Neptune.

[@ronnie917]

The DR gives them a chance to earn money. As always you are pumping out sensationalist stuff

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@eduardoguillermo7366]

Since Casa Pueblo is helping them, instead of installing electricity panels the Haitians should be taken to Puerto Rico where they will have a better condition living under Government assistant. But it's for sure that Puerto Ricans won't be welcoming them with open arms. People talk about how Haitians are discriminated against in the D.R., but they should know that the Haitians committed a racial genocide against the Dominican people.

[@Amela_McZuric]

Absolutely heart breaking. My prayers of love, healing and safety to the people of Haiti who are suffering with so much inhumane brutality from terrorist gangs and slavery. 😢💔 May God give you mercy and strength for a better day.

[@Black_unity597]

And they have the nerve to try and down us Black Americans about slavery Jim Crow redlining mass incarceration and so on! I feel for them but when they come here they try and look down on us when we don’t do that to them and that’s our problem one of our problems as Black Americans we are to welcoming and to fast to forgive those who transgress against but not anymore we are not fighting no fights for no other race groups anymore! We are only fighting our own fight the Demoncratic party will learn a very hard lesson in the voting cycles to come! Mark my word!

[@Sickles197]

Why don’t they just buy machines to do the work like every other sugar cultivation? This is aiding in human trafficking

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@Sickles197]

@@wilber2k06 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@theinternetsavedmylife]

All forms of illegal migration aids Human Trafficking but open borders advocates always choose to ignore that

[@PaulsPatio]

Strike on sugar cane that they make ❤😮

[@2hard2knock]

Domino is the brand. Does Chiquita Banana ring a bell, in Central America?

[@ninolama]

This happens in many countries and with American companies.

[@wilber2k06]

Agreed; that's why people need to be reminded of the "Banana Wars" in American history against Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up.

[@truthmonster3290]

Dominican Republic needs to build a wall.

[@skylineBlueSun]

You’re right

[@tavroaar8173]

They already are.

[@Messiah-vi9mk]

P.R needs to built a wall to keep Dominicans out!!

[@wilber2k06]

Strange the report didn't mention that between 2010-2021 Dominican Republic's Ministry of Health projected that it has spent at least $12Million US dollars out of its own pocket (no help from any other country or US colony) for child-births/cesarians to foreigners mainly Haitians. The money being spent in this area has consumed a large part of the budget of the health sector.

[@kingtimiii601]

12 million dollars is nothing, you guys reap billions off American and European tourism

[@PH7018c]

Dominican have to pay for health.. for haitians is free..

[@tc7500]

You sound as if the DR was doing a favor or a gift to the Haitians! It’s an obligation of all nations to provide medical care to all human beings regardless of their political status! Puerto Rico takes care of ILEGAL Dominicans, right? Besides, the Dominican Republic used to belong to Haiti! You guys got 2 wars of independence against Haiti! So technically Dominicans are Haitians and should help their fellow brethren!

[@wilber2k06]

@@kingtimiii601 Well then you go pay for it.

[@wilber2k06]

​@@tc7500 You're just a hater stuck in your own existential identity crisis and think everyone else should join you. Just go wallow up in your own little corner.

[@yeseniakrueger1863]

As I live in the Dominican Republic... The truth is hard to find in this video....

[@wilber2k06]

Agreed; between 2010-2021 Dominican Republic's Ministry of Health projected that it has spent at least $12Million US dollars out of its own pocket (no help from any other country or US colony) for child-births/cesarians to foreigners mainly Haitians. The money being spent in this area has consumed a large part of the budget of the health sector.

[@orlandoselles7926]

Who are going to blame? It's humiliating, insulting and DEGRADING. Check this out: Central Romana, which is the largest landholder and employer in the Dominican Republic, exports more than 200 million pounds of sugar to the United States each year. It is owned partly by the Fanjul family, an influential force in U.S. politics for decades as key donors to both Republicans and Democrats.

[@wilber2k06]

Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@penny9263]

Wow!!!

[@earthandwind820]

Republicans and Democrats? They’re really trying to influence - play both sides

[@copeyano718]

Largest employer in the DR is the government, Central Romana is top 10 amount private employers but the field workers are not counted since they are seasonal workers and are not part of the social security system.

[@edwardnreynoso9257]

I do not agree any human being be mistreated, regardless their culture, believe, or skin color. Nevertheless, how could it be possible, that in our neighbors' case, haitians, they go their way, executing the most horrendous assesination against dominicans, right in our own towns, cities and neighborhoods, and NO ONE say anything? I invite PR to lodge in at least 10% of the many millions of haitians (many of then highly ungrateful) we have made room for in DR.

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@yesandno3640]

Democracy now is such an important news outlet.

[@OscarGonzalez-fu5ps]

I advice anyone that's interested in this to read the novel "Over" by Ramon Marrero Aristy. It depicts the living conditions in these places in the 1930's in an incredibly raw way, but the real takeaway when you finish it and look further into the situation in the present is that things have not improved much.

[@michaelmaya7742]

HELLO 👋 Is anybody home? This is 2023 not 1930

[@tc7500]

Dominican racism towards Haitians have not change in 200 years!

[@OscarGonzalez-fu5ps]

@@michaelmaya7742 yes. And the only thing that has changed is that the pennies they made have been adjusted for inflation ($2 a day, wow! Real progress!), and that they no longer depend as much on immigrants coming from other parts of the caribbean because now there are established communities for them to exploit permanently

[@rennynewborn2247]

Shameful, disgrace.

[@jimyardon5262]

The Caribbean is all Indigenous Caribe people L A N D, Africa is African land

[@marg3153]

Isn't this an American company?

[@sparkle3000]

Who killed the Haitian President and why?

[@1MrAngel1]

CIA?

[@luismedina3660]

As Dominican, I demand to the Dominican president to free all the Haitians under this slave conditions and give them theirs freedom and send them to his country where they will have better life conditions. Freedom to all Haitians borders and let them go to theirs country!

[@Maria-zd3ig]

These are international companies, they go to the DR and break their laws, and also take advantage of our neighbors.

[@Leissamzil]

I agree! In Haiti they will have better life conditions.

[@wilber2k06]

Those that have tried to go back to Haiti only run into the corruption in Haiti of regulating/legalizing their status in Haiti since they lack the documentation or don't have the money to process their documentation there. Others don't want to go and think the local government owes them, when it was the American company that employed them. Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@o.ramirez]

I’m Dominican and I agree with you. 😁

[@wilber2k06]

Arturo Massol-Deya from "Casa Puebla" should take them as refugees to Puerto Rico and make them US Citizens. But that's not going to happen because in the 1980s the Puerto Rican government sued the American government to prevent them from sending Haitian refugees to Puerto Rico, they backed off once their were told the refugees would only be there for 1 year before they got send to Florida.

[@JM-pn5nu]

This propaganda against DR is intense. None of these people are held captive and throwing “slavery” accusations around are very serious. I hope you understand what you’re doing.

[@wilber2k06]

Agreed; Arturo Massol-Deya from "Casa Pueblo" should take them as refugees to Puerto Rico and make them US Citizens. But that's not going to happen because in the 1980s the Puerto Rican government sued the American government to prevent them from sending Haitian refugees to Puerto Rico, they backed off once their were told the refugees would only be there for 1 year before they got send to Florida.

[@davepb5798]

Kinda sounds like the U.S. H2 visa system, bringing Jamaican labour to cut sugar cane.

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@wilber2k06]

@marekcracovia4061 American company - the American government built that site in the early 1900s as part of the Porto Rico Sugar Company.

[@breathnstop]

Brave committed men and women. Much respect.

[@elaineshepherd2748]

And America claims to want to help Haiti! What a joke.

[@Joker-no1uh]

The owners are Cuban

[@juanaperaltafranco969]

I have family there, Dominicans that live in this conditions. They are poor Dominicans. We love Haitian people of good will. If they don’t want to work, they are free to go. Dominicans are once of the most friendly and hospitality people in this earth. Thus, talk about us with impartiality. It is good to improve the quality of live of all human being, starting with the ones that are close to us, starting with Dominicans and them our neighbors. I know that 60% of Haitians people are Cristians, much of them use to used our free hospital care, free public schools, work with us in our homes. And more benefits they receive from DR without being legally immigrants some or much of them. I pray God that provides for all His children. Using people like you is a help. Thanks. Juana

[@wilber2k06]

Arturo Massol-Deya from "Casa Pueblo" should take them as refugees to Puerto Rico and make them US Citizens. But that's not going to happen because in the 1980s the Puerto Rican government sued the American government to prevent them from sending Haitian refugees to Puerto Rico, they backed off once their were told the refugees would only be there for 1 year before they got send to Florida.

[@drumcircler]

Why buy Domino’s sugar?

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

All sugar is bad , it cause many heath problems ,

[@JPrez1]

Central Romana is an American Company bro. They just decided to leave that part out.

[@Maria-zd3ig]

​@@JPrez1Dominicans need to sue these companies for breaking their labor laws.😢

[@wilber2k06]

@@Maria-zd3ig Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@PH7018c]

​@@Maria-zd3ig...no latin american country can sue US.. for obvious reasons.. Reading some history is highly recommended

[@wilber2k06]

Would like to see an investigative report into who's funding "casa pueblo" (an NGO) because it is well-known that some (not all) NGOs are used for covert purposes.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

The DR 🇩🇴, is the country that has helped Haiti the most, there 8 items: 1) ON LAND: It invaded us for 22 years and Haiti stole 6,200 km2 (almost half of PR 🇵🇷) and Trujillo ceded it in 1936 formally with the Revision Protocol of the Border Treaty of 1929. Legal rights were renounced in a time of war for territories in LATAM. Territories: Hinchas, San Miguel de la Atalaya, San Rafael de la Angostura, Las Caobas and the entire Laguna del Fondo, with 4,572 km2 (8% of the national territory) ceded by Horario Vázquez in the 1929 Border Treaty. Territories: Veladero, El Saltadero and La Miel, being 1,628 km2 (3% of the national territory) by Trujillo in the Revision Protocol of the Border Treaty of 1929. To give away those territories, the RD 🇩🇴 modified its Constitution of 1929: which set the border limits of the RD 🇩🇴 by the Treaty of Aranjuez of 1777. Even during the annexation of the RD 🇩🇴 to Spain 🇪🇸, in January 1862 , Queen Elizabeth II, made a Royal Ordinance where she demanded Haiti 🇭🇹 those territories. 2) IN EDUCATION: RD 🇩🇴 without official agreement and only at the border: Let Haitian minors from the border departments with the RD study in their schools, expenses of the Ministry of Education. Since July 2001, according to HRW. 3) IN FREE REGULARIZATION: RD 🇩🇴 in 2014 and 2015 regularized 125 thousand Haitians for FREE, according to UNHCR 5/20/2021. Not even Venezuelans have had that luck! The Haitian Embassy in the DR 🇩🇴 delivered the first 200 visa passports to Haitians studying at DR universities, out of a total of 1800 visas under a process of regularization of the immigration status of Haitian university students in the DR 🇩🇴 by the Government of Luis Abinader, At the moment net (11/8/2021). 4) IN FREE HEALTH: RD 🇩🇴 In 2014 alone, the MSP spent US$ 57.6 MM on Haitians on health services, according to BBC Mundo 6/30/2015. In the DR 🇩🇴 the number of Haitian parturients tripled in 10 years, reaching 30,322 births in 2020, according to (SNS) 2/1/2021. Poor pregnant Dominican women are required 1 Pint of Blood for US$124 for cesarean sections, but Haitian women are FREE. Haiti rejected 100,000 AstraZenecade COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the DR 🇩🇴, according to Diario Libre (9/7/2021). In 2017, Haitian births in the DR 🇩🇴 cost the Dominican State more than US$100 million (Source Dr. Nelson Rodríguez Monegros, Information Director of the National Health Service (SNS) at the time. More medical care for mothers and children for more than $60 million According to (Haitilibre) 11/5/2021. 5) IN NO. OF VISAS: In 2014 alone, the DR 🇩🇴 granted visas to 79,589 Haitians through its 5 consulates in Haiti (Pétion-Ville, Ouanaminthe, Cap-Haïtien, Anse-á-Pitres and Belladére), according to the New Newspaper 8/17/2015. In the last 3 years, 217,863 visas have been issued to Haitians to come to the DR 🇩🇴: In 2019 there were 85,864 visas; in 2020 there were 52,759 visas and in this 2021, the figures seem to reach those of 2020, according to Listín Diario 10/15/2021. 6) DURING THE EARTHQUAKES: Ignoring the aid of 2010, RD 🇩🇴 sent 3 ships with 70 tons of food in aid to Haiti on August 20, 2021, according to MIDE. 7) IN JOBS: Not applying Art. 137 of the Labor Code (80 Dominicans for every 20 foreigners): 29% of jobs in construction and 28% in agriculture are Haitian, according to INM and OIM 9/30/2021 . 8) CEDULATION SUPPORT: In January 2021, the RD 🇩🇴 government agreed to help Haiti provide identity documents to its citizens living in Dominican territory, according to Univision - Adams, David C. 9/29/2021. In short, RD 🇩🇴 with a surface area of 48,442 km2 and a POPULATION DENSITY OF 231,81 inhab./km2; the presence (according to the 2nd National Immigrant Survey of 2017) of 751,080 Haitians: IT IS NOT LITTLE.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

DR being the richest country in the caribbean, if they paid anything even borderline reasonable to their 30% slave labor force from Haiti, Haiti would be able to finance itself from remittances alone. The rest: pure govt propaganda, you guys don't have any news other than from the govt. Never mind you're giving the haitian gang leaders sanctuary in your country. The biggest curse on Haiti is the DR is my guess.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@Rene-uz3eb The problem with this comment is his hatred of the DR and great ignorance in economics. THE DISGRACE OF HAITI IS THE POLITICAL ELITE, FRANCE, VOODOO AND THE USA. IT IS NOTED THAT YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF THAT COUNTRY. THEY HAVE DESTROYED THAT COUNTRY AND WANT TO BLAME THE DR. 1) The DR is not the richest country in the Caribbean, but the Bahamas and then Puerto Rico. NO COUNTRY CAN BE FINANCED ON THE BASIS OF REMITTANCES. A sugarcane worker earns US$211.42 per month. A worker with training from the free zones who earns US$ 245.16 per month. BOTH SALARIES BY LAW.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@Rene-uz3eb THERE ARE MANY NEWS ARTICLES IN WHICH THE DR HAS DELIVERED TO THE AUTHORITIES OF HAITI, MEMBERS OF GANGS FLEEING TO THE DR AND THE SANCTIONS THAT THE DR HAS PLACED ON INDIVIDUALS RELATED TO THE GANGS. ALSO IN THE NEWS THERE ARE ARTICLES ABOUT THE HAITI MIDDLE CLASS WHO HAVE MOVED TO THE DR DUE TO THE CRISIS IN HAITI AND THE HAITIAN ELITE HAS MADE BUSINESS INVESTMENTS, BUT THEY LIVE IN MIAMI (USA 🇺🇲).

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@Rene-uz3eb Your hate has you blind! If you read my first comment you will see international, national and government sources.

[@Rene-uz3eb]

@@Bartolo.Gonzalez alright then, point by point. -regularization of Haitians. That just means a visa, like the legal laborers get. BBC mundo news about dominican: there is only one current news item, the previous is from May. The current news item talks about deported Haitians. For the rest you are citing government sources.

[@AndreidySánchez]

Slavery is a very big word. Do you know why those places aren't full of Dominicans too? Because the Dominican does not accept those jobs, and the Haitian accepts them voluntarily. The news must be better informed and look at the country with a broader perspective. If Dominicans don't have a good time in their own country, how do you expect a foreigner to have a better time? Obviously it's worse. We have many Dominican communities that also need electricity, water, health system, education, internet and technologies. The Dominican Republic is also doing poorly, but you only focus on the fact that Haiti is doing worse, and you accuse that country as if the well-being of the entire island is in its hands.

[@hennyoverdose3296]

Wow this is sad 😢

[@jerrygonzalez7647]

Do you know who’s own the sugar cane 🇺🇸😅 we just rent the land soil

[@eltaxita40]

Im happy for them. Some Dominicans live the same way. You should Take them all to Puerto Rico or USA.

[@wilber2k06]

Would like to see an investigative report into who's funding "casa pueblo" (an NGO) because it is well-known that some (not all) NGOs are used for covert purposes.

[@derrickrandall4017]

Yes Please. Who is casa pueblo"?

[@wilber2k06]

@ReceiptBae Okay, I see why some people want to hide the fact that it was built by and called the South Porto Rico Sugar Company (an American company) and still an American company now.

[@wilber2k06]

@ReceiptBae Now is starting to make sense. The sameday this news was released a delegation of Puerto Rican Nationalist was in Dominican Republic covering/releasing the book "Julia Burgos in Dominican Republic". She was a Puerto Rican nationalist who wanted independence for Puerto Rico. So this report released by Democracy Now on the same day seems to overshadow that visit.

[@derrickrandall4017]

@@wilber2k06 This is an eye-opening what this company is doing and NO one says anything. What I don't get is this has been going on for a long time.

[@wilber2k06]

@derrickrandall4017 Actually, this is well-known. I've been following the sugar industry in the United States since the early 1990s, when I learned that Florida has sugar plantations and the labor issues there were all over the newspapers. The reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful, so they are going after their other companies overseas. The Fanjul family is integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo." I wouldn't be surprised if it is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history with Central American countries.

[@Kvelez05]

They are not obligated to cross the border illegally to work for Americans companies like sugar fields and hotels franchise in the Dominican Republic. And why are they calling themselves Dominican if they know we exercise our jus sanguini law they are Haitian citizens living in a foreign land.

[@ekimbangola]

Thank you for this report. I hope they take advantage of this opportunity and learn computer skills.

[@jacquelinem2873]

Haitians work in the DR, because it’s much better than in Haiti. Wages, housing, access to food, healthcare… the houses shown in this video are much better than some Dominicans have.

[@bennierichardson9077]

Sad!!

[@Patria_RD]

So they get free birth, schools and jobs, but they are talking about DR being racist, kind of ackwar

[@emanuels4961]

As a simple observer, the only common denominator I see in all of these recent "rebellious" events is.. well.. America. If they see something shiny, they have the will, mechanisms and experience to come and take it from you. Wtf

[@tripaseca809]

That not truth they go to Dominican For themselves, no one forces anyone to work if they don't want to. Their labor is cheap and that's why they use them for work. The same thing happens in the United States. They use Central Americans in restaurants because North Americans have to be paid higher.

[@mchase7808]

Thank you, Arturo! ❤

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@greenteadoll2384]

Two dollars a day and they pay into pension but denied to collect it, no light no school terrible.

[@selfautonomy7774]

I want yall to do a report on the Haitians who came out the following days and week saying that none of this is true, that they've been working for that company for years , bring out the whole truth don't cherry pick dvils

[@shimelkag]

These companies are not even Dominicans

[@wilber2k06]

You're right; in the United States (specially Florida), labor issues in the sugar industry have been a hot topic when they started using Haitian refugees since the 1980s. Jamaicans and other West Indian workers that came to work on Florida's sugar fields came under government-to-grower contracts and were taken care by those contracting companies. However, Haitian refugees were not part of these contracting companies so they didn't have anyone to look after them. Now, the reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas (like Central Romana in Dominican Republic). The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. That means getting a fair-trial in Florida would be nearly impossible. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history against Central American countries.

[@johncremeans969]

There are actual slaves in the world today there's more slavery real slavery in the world today these people can leave any day they want. It is seasonal work obviously they're going home and they volunteered to return. Calling this slavery belittles the real suffering of slaves who do not have the freedom to leave

[@phartsdust]

Terrible, tell them Biden welcomes you to USA resources. If you really want to help these poor people vote Joe Biden so they can come to your neighborhood.

[@rekaembree8809]

Praying for this population of Haitian people in DC, God bless them all!!!

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@jaimegutierrez5520]

What about the mexican who work in us fofr nothing is slavery too? In florida picking orange

[@MoisePicard-no9by]

I am so proud to be Haitian. 🇫🇷🇭🇹

[@QueensNY718]

If you are so proud tell Haitians born in the DR to say that they are Haitians born in the DR and not just Dominicans. They are not Dominicans.

[@blackfang441]

Ironicly Haitians helped free them from Occupation during the revolution.

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

Prove that .

[@rafm3068]

Dominicans already had a state...what Haiti did was annex the nation and after they were removed in 1844 the Haitians occupied Dominican lands and launch many failed invasions. It would be great for everyone to fully understand and read Dominican history.

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

@@rafm3068 The entire Island was French-controlled, European nations sent their Armies to fight the slaves in Hispaniola, 100.000 soldiers, and 200.000 slaves died in that revolt, the Spanish came and took the eastern side of the island. Dominicans are hated in Puerto Rico where they come into our island illegally to get into the USA

[@LuisVelez-f5h]

@@rafm3068 Haitians won the war with France and England for the land they have, what you are spewing is propaganda , wake up you are not white

[@rafm3068]

@@LuisVelez-f5h Please read carefully, because I notice a lot of Puerto Ricans and others never seem to understand Dominican history. No, the entire island was first Spanish-controlled. The first people that formed from that mixture were Dominicans. The French arrived LATER in the 1600s and the slaves on the western side that were brought in the 1700s and early 1800s, became most of the Haitian ancestry that were brought LATER. Haiti had a long war where the mixed minority Haitians tried to form their own state and there were violent wars between the black Majority, the mixed Haitian minority, and the French. Eventually, the mixed minority and Haitian Black Majority defeated the French in 1804, in 1806 Haiti split into two nations until they reunited and occupied the entire island in 1822. There was a period when the French had control of the eastern side then lost it to the Spanish again. Dominicans officially became a state in 1821 after the Spanish were removed then Haiti annexed and occupied the entire island in 1822. The Dominicans mounted a rebellion against Haitian occupation and removed them in 1844 and tried to settle peacefully to maintain their own country. Haiti and then the Empire of Haiti decided to invade many times into the Dominican Republic. If you are Puerto Rican this is something that many of you never seem to understand.

[@jimyardon5262]

Why go to a Country that you know is not good Stay In your own Country also the Caribbean is all Indigenous Caribe people L A N D

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

The DR 🇩🇴, is the country that has helped Haiti the most, there 8 items: 1) ON LAND: It invaded us for 22 years and Haiti stole 6,200 km2 (almost half of PR 🇵🇷) and Trujillo ceded it in 1936 formally with the Revision Protocol of the Border Treaty of 1929. Legal rights were renounced in a time of war for territories in LATAM. Territories: Hinchas, San Miguel de la Atalaya, San Rafael de la Angostura, Las Caobas and the entire Laguna del Fondo, with 4,572 km2 (8% of the national territory) ceded by Horario Vázquez in the 1929 Border Treaty. Territories: Veladero, El Saltadero and La Miel, being 1,628 km2 (3% of the national territory) by Trujillo in the Revision Protocol of the Border Treaty of 1929. To give away those territories, the RD 🇩🇴 modified its Constitution of 1929: which set the border limits of the RD 🇩🇴 by the Treaty of Aranjuez of 1777. Even during the annexation of the RD 🇩🇴 to Spain 🇪🇸, in January 1862 , Queen Elizabeth II, made a Royal Ordinance where she demanded Haiti 🇭🇹 those territories. 2) IN EDUCATION: RD 🇩🇴 without official agreement and only at the border: Let Haitian minors from the border departments with the RD study in their schools, expenses of the Ministry of Education. Since July 2001, according to HRW. 3) IN FREE REGULARIZATION: RD 🇩🇴 in 2014 and 2015 regularized 125 thousand Haitians for FREE, according to UNHCR 5/20/2021. Not even Venezuelans have had that luck! The Haitian Embassy in the DR 🇩🇴 delivered the first 200 visa passports to Haitians studying at DR universities, out of a total of 1800 visas under a process of regularization of the immigration status of Haitian university students in the DR 🇩🇴 by the Government of Luis Abinader, At the moment net (11/8/2021). 4) IN FREE HEALTH: RD 🇩🇴 In 2014 alone, the MSP spent US$ 57.6 MM on Haitians on health services, according to BBC Mundo 6/30/2015. In the DR 🇩🇴 the number of Haitian parturients tripled in 10 years, reaching 30,322 births in 2020, according to (SNS) 2/1/2021. Poor pregnant Dominican women are required 1 Pint of Blood for US$124 for cesarean sections, but Haitian women are FREE. Haiti rejected 100,000 AstraZenecade COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the DR 🇩🇴, according to Diario Libre (9/7/2021). In 2017, Haitian births in the DR 🇩🇴 cost the Dominican State more than US$100 million (Source Dr. Nelson Rodríguez Monegros, Information Director of the National Health Service (SNS) at the time. More medical care for mothers and children for more than $60 million According to (Haitilibre) 11/5/2021. 5) IN NO. OF VISAS: In 2014 alone, the DR 🇩🇴 granted visas to 79,589 Haitians through its 5 consulates in Haiti (Pétion-Ville, Ouanaminthe, Cap-Haïtien, Anse-á-Pitres and Belladére), according to the New Newspaper 8/17/2015. In the last 3 years, 217,863 visas have been issued to Haitians to come to the DR 🇩🇴: In 2019 there were 85,864 visas; in 2020 there were 52,759 visas and in this 2021, the figures seem to reach those of 2020, according to Listín Diario 10/15/2021. 6) DURING THE EARTHQUAKES: Ignoring the aid of 2010, RD 🇩🇴 sent 3 ships with 70 tons of food in aid to Haiti on August 20, 2021, according to MIDE. 7) IN JOBS: Not applying Art. 137 of the Labor Code (80 Dominicans for every 20 foreigners): 29% of jobs in construction and 28% in agriculture are Haitian, according to INM and OIM 9/30/2021 . 8) CEDULATION SUPPORT: In January 2021, the RD 🇩🇴 government agreed to help Haiti provide identity documents to its citizens living in Dominican territory, according to Univision - Adams, David C. 9/29/2021. In short, RD 🇩🇴 with a surface area of 48,442 km2 and a POPULATION DENSITY OF 231,81 inhab./km2; the presence (according to the 2nd National Immigrant Survey of 2017) of 751,080 Haitians: IT IS NOT LITTLE.

[@wendyhestick8514]

You know erroneous IceHistory not true Haitian History!

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@wendyhestick8514 You ignore the existence of the documents that confirm these historical facts on the border and that are kept in the General Archive of the Dominican Republic, also in Spain and France.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@wendyhestick8514 What right did Haiti have to extend its territory beyond the border division agreed between Spain and France?

[@BecomeAWebDev]

Anyone who believes the premise of this video needs to have their common sense examined. The workers go there by choice!!! There aren't better jobs elsewhere for them!

[@ctbt1832]

Can they quit that job when they want to? Are they being beaten? If not, can you do not compare that to slavery.

[@icytheofficial]

Thank you !!!!! Everywhere these people go, they cause problems. Try looking at the state the Bahamas is in right now.

[@chrisanthosvlasiadis2097]

if they don't work, they don't eat

[@ctbt1832]

@@chrisanthosvlasiadis2097 it does not say they have to work all day. I’m familiar with that scripture in the Bible. And it put no timeframe on it. And if you read it again, it says if they don’t work, they don’t eat. The keyword is if. Which means they have a choice to work or not. It’s that easy. Did you see that? Do not compare that to slavery. To do so it’s showing your ignorance.

[@theinternetsavedmylife]

​@@chrisanthosvlasiadis2097 Shocker! What? I thought food was free 😂

[@thejeanyes12]

​@@ctbt1832ehh u do know there were/ are multiple forms of slavery right.

[@wilber2k06]

Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@bassplayer9315]

As a Dominican, this hurts to watch

[@JPrez1]

Don't be hurt, Central Roman is an American Company which is taking advantage of Haitians on Dominican soil. They left that part out though.

[@Maria-zd3ig]

​@@JPrez1exactly, I don't know why the DR allows this.

[@wilber2k06]

Look into American history during the period of the "Banana Wars" with Central American countries and what an American company (now goes by the name "Chiquita") along with a small section of the American government created so much political instability, and fake-news that is still felt to this day in the region. Look into American companies in Ecuador about the environmental disaster they created and how they prevented the Ecuadorian government from making them responsible for the clean up. Central Romana is an American company. Strange this report doesn't mention that important detail. Fanjul Group/Corp (American company from Florida) acquired Central Romana in 1984. Central Romana's history started when it was created by the USA government back in the early 1900s. It used to be part of another American company, Porto Rico Sugar company, and that's how Puerto Rico (formerly Porto Rico) used to send workers there. The Fanjul Group/Corp is a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It has subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, the former Tate & Lyle sugar companies.

[@o.ramirez]

As Dominican, I demand to the Dominican president to free all the Haitians under this slave conditions and give them theirs freedom and send them to his country where they will have better life conditions. Freedom to all Haitians borders and let them go to theirs country!

[@josephguillen187]

@@o.ramirez I approve this message 👏

[@lilcaam1]

This is AN AMERICAN COMPANY working in DOMINICAN LAND using HAITIANS HUMAN RESOURCES and calling Dominicans “enslavers” smh

[@wilber2k06]

In the United States (specially Florida), labor issues in the sugar industry have been a hot topic when they started using Haitian refugees since the 1980s. Jamaicans and other West Indian workers that came to work on Florida's sugar fields came under government-to-grower contracts and were taken care by those contracting companies. However, Haitian refugees were not part of these contracting companies so they didn't have anyone to look after them. Now, the reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas (like Central Romana in Dominican Republic). The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. That means getting a fair-trial in Florida would be nearly impossible. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history against Central American countries.

[@wilber2k06]

Between 2010-2021 Dominican Republic's Ministry of Health projected that it has spent at least $12Million US dollars out of its own pocket (no help from any other country or oldest (US) colony in the world) for child-births/cesarians to foreigners mainly Haitians. The money being spent in this area has consumed a large part of the budget of the health sector.

[@juliobido3280]

Your saying that they are in modern slavery because they dont get pay that much to do the work, BUT arent you doing the same (USA) because in the free zones that you have created for us the Dominicans back in DOminican republic you are paying us 1.17 us dollars per hour to do jobs that normally pay 17-20 dollars per hour. But you install those companies in DR just so you can get the job done for a cheaper amount? OH WAIT, its exactly the same, because the company that you are talking about (CENTRAL ROMANA) its an AMERICAN COMPANY BASED IN DR. So what is this? Fake news, just so you can justify the 2030 agenda with the Island unification. Not happening.

[@wilber2k06]

In the United States (specially Florida), labor issues in the sugar industry have been a hot topic when they started using Haitian refugees since the 1980s. Jamaicans and other West Indian workers that came to work on Florida's sugar fields came under government-to-grower contracts and were taken care by those contracting companies. However, Haitian refugees were not part of these contracting companies so they didn't have anyone to look after them. Now, the reality is that a group of lawyers have been going after the Fanjul Group in Florida since the 1980s in relation to their sugar plantation companies in Florida. They haven't been successful so they are going after their other companies overseas (like Central Romana in Dominican Republic). The Fanjul family are so integrated into the American political system of both Democrats and Republicans. That means getting a fair-trial in Florida would be nearly impossible. If you have the patience you can read the results of these multiple lawsuits that are public record in Florida or to start just read the article, "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" (Vanity Fair, February 2011 issue, by Marie Brenner). Post it here if you find out who's funding "Casa Pueblo". I wouldn't be surprised if is the same group of lawyers going after the Fanjul companies and going around doing yellow-journalism against other countries like in the "Banana Wars" of American history against Central American countries.

[@justafriend3408]

Usually when people's society is destroyed, whether of their fault or not, they themselves will end up being exploited in various ways. It's a reality that's bound to happen

[@Nothing123Battle]

Yeah this is my opinion too...The best that Haitians can do is stabilize themselves and invite investment in the country. It would create an incentive to train citizens and thus raise the literacy and standard in Haiti.