Word: haitians
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More than 20 Harvard custodial workers and their families turned out to celebrate with about 20 students for the first annual Worker Appreciation Day at Harvard, sponsored primarily by the Progressive Student Labor Movement's Living Wage Campaign, the Black Students Association (BSA) and the Harvard Haitian Alliance...
...These people are part of the Harvard community, but they're also a part of our community," Haitian Alliance President Anne-Carmene Almonord '02 said...
Along with Living Wage Campaign member Stephen N. Smith '02 and Haitian Alliance Public Service Chair Emilio J. Travieso '02, McNair coordinated the reception...
...total bound for the U.S. to more than 15%--amounting to almost six tons a month. When U.S. forces entered Haiti six years ago, they helped create a new civilian police force and coast guard. But the fledgling, threadbare agencies are a laugh to the cartels. U.S. officials, citing Haitian inspector general reports on officer misconduct, estimate that 85% of police supervisors--including four in Cap-Haitien who were recently caught with their own bulging satchels of dope cash--are in the pockets of traffickers. The Haitian coast guard has made a few impressive busts in recent years...
Still, most of the coke that is shipped out of Haiti gets through to the U.S.--about 80%, according to U.S. agents. Over the past year, customs cops on the Miami River seized a record 7,200 lbs. of cocaine, most from Haitian ships, four times as much as in the previous year. Haiti's imaginative narco welders have forced an inspection revolution. Customs teams often spend days dismantling keels, engine rooms and even onboard septic tanks and voodoo shrines that have yielded as much as 1,100 lbs. of coke at a time. "We've never seen the Colombians...