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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 …