🧵 NEW: After a Reveal + @MotherJones investigation prompted action in Congress, a major Dominican sugar exporter razed workers’ homes as US diplomats drew near.
“They didn’t tell me anything. They just came and started breaking houses.” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“They didn’t tell me anything. They just came and started breaking houses.” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
The homes were in a settlement in the Dominican Republic known to residents as Batey Hoyo de Puerco, or Pig Hole, and an estimated 230 Haitian cane cutters and their families lived there. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
The settlement’s demolition is just one of a wave of actions taken by the billion-dollar Central Romana corporation — one of the biggest suppliers of raw sugar to the United States — following our two-year investigation released in September. bit.ly/reveal-sugar 
The reports exposed Central Romana’s treatment of its workers: substandard housing, hazardous working conditions, low wages, poor access to medical care, and the massive debt they often incur. motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Central Romana denies that it separated any households, saying workers and their families were moved to nearby settlements with “better houses” — either newly built or “completely repaired.” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
But one former resident of Hoyo de Puerco says the house he was relocated to in a nearby batey is in worse shape than the one he was forced to leave.
“It’s full of holes, so when it rains, the water comes inside.”
Read the full story by @Sandy_Tolan: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“It’s full of holes, so when it rains, the water comes inside.”
Read the full story by @Sandy_Tolan: motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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