1/ This weekend @MotherJones and @reveal/@CIRonline published a big investigation into conditions inside the Fanjul's sugar Dominican plantations, which provides much of America's sugar and in which workers face horrible conditions: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
2/ @Sandy_Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel spent two years trying to find a Haitian boy trafficked to the cane fields 20 years ago, a mission that eventually morphed into documenting the full picture of current abuse: revealnews.org/podcast/the-bi…
3/ 20 years ago, kidnapping gangs took kids and adults from Haiti to work on Domincan plantations; today some 20,000 Haitians work there without papers or any protections.
4/ The Fanjul's main plantation is the size of NYC. In a perfect encapsulation of, well, everything, amid the bateys—work camps—is a luxury resort where A-listers go: motherjones.com/politics/2021/… 
5/The Fanjul's wouldn't be able to get away with these conditions without co-opting the Dominican government. And the American. Notably @marcorubio
6/ But the Fanjuls make a point of giving across the aisle, how they've managed to escape accountability, and keep the profitable sugar subsidy system in place. Recall this cameo in the Clinton-Lewinsky saga: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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