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Article: A bitter harvest for Haitians. (migrant Haitian sugarcane workers in the Dominican Republic)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- May 14, 1990
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Ti Paille was lying on a cot in the comer of his room. No one was paying attention. Hell be dead soon,' a girl said as she passed by Ti Paille's open door, gesturing toward him with her shoulder. Two tears leaked from the old man's eyes down his cheeks. Flies were gathering on his eyelids and at the comers of his lips. He hadn't eaten in more than a week, and no one had brought him anything to drink. He was bone skinny and looked about 70 or 80 years old, though someone said they thought he was somewhere in his 60s. Ti Paille had no wife, no children. There was no one to take care of him. He was just a cane cutter. He'd been cutting cane at Batey Porvenir on the state-run ...