August 12, 2015
Categories: Slavery
Tags: DR, forced labor, sugar
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24P4zf9m1Vc[/embedyt] On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a […]
May 15, 2015
Categories: Politics
Tags: carribean, citzenship, convention, DR
The leaders plan to decide at a meeting Tuesday in Trinidad whether to impose sanctions against the Dominican Republic over a high court ruling denying citizenship to children of undocumented Haitians. The leaders plan to decide at a meeting Tuesday in Trinidad whether to impose sanctions against the Dominican Republic over a high court ruling […]