Haiti: The Price Of Sugar Cane

After Cuba, the Dominican Republic is the second-largest producer of sugarcane in the Caribbean. Sugar cane is the most important commercial crop for the Dominican Republic.

The Price Of Sugar
The Price Of Sugar


The Price of Sugar

See how Haitians pay for sugar in the Dominican Republic
Watch the trailer now

Each year, as the sugar harvest approaches, as many as 20,000 Haitian workers are recruited with the promise of steady work at higher pay than they can earn in Haiti.

Haitians cutting sugar canes in the Dominican Republic are housed in concentration-camp-like barracks. An estimated 650,000 to one million Haitians are living in these camps These are excerpts from an article from The New York Times written by Stephen Holden (Sugar Cane's Bitter Harvest in the Dominican Republic)

There is a new documentary called The Price Of Sugar that exposes the living conditons of haitians in Bateyes in the Dominican Republic. Watch the trailer now and bear witness to the living conditions of Haitians in Saint Domingue.

Jean Jaqcues Dessalines must be flipping in his grave right about now!

He died in vain.

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