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...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...Perhaps President Fernandez should be praised for all the ways in which his country is a positive example of development and democracy for those it serves. But for the toils and terrors of those like Mr. Beltran, who spoke while hiding in a barn, he should have to answer...
...President Fernandez presides over a country that is laudable for its advances in trade and tourism, its partnership with America and the improvements it has made for its own citizens. But President Fernandez also presides over a country that maintains a “permanent underclass,” confined to subhuman living conditions, unobtainable rights, and indentured servitude...
...today, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez Reyna will give a presentation in the Tsai Auditorium at CGIS South entitled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example.” He will probably talk about Dominican Republic’s recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands...
...Enter President Fernandez, and his government’s systematic abuse of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians, who are not only allowed to remain in dire poverty within the miserable bateyes, but who are in fact actively rounded up and deported at the drop of a hat, their visas and work permits disregarded or even destroyed. “Snatched off the street, dragged from their homes, or picked up from their workplaces, ‘Haitian-looking’ people are rarely given a fair opportunity to challenge their expulsion during these wholesale sweeps,” noted the Human...