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Often immigrants families who want to settle in Cambridge but cannot afford the skyrocketing rent will choose to double up in a single apartment, often in a high-rise building like the Fresh Pond Towers, according to Jean Jeune, director of the Haitian Multiservice Center...
...soon as they find a job and no longer have to share an apartment with friends or relatives, Jeune says, Haitian immigrants move out of Cambridge...
While there were once upwards of 7,000 Haitian immigrants in the area, Jeune says the number is closer to 5,000 today. He estimates that in the next five years, Cambridge will only have half the Haitian population it does today...
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...
...Haiti, of course, has no money-laundering laws. The money is fueling a grossly incongruous boom in luxury-home construction in Port-au-Prince and, say locals, paying for a glitzy new shopping center in more impoverished Port-de-Paix. The mall was built by Michel Oreste, 70, whom Haitian officials describe as a modern-day successor to the buccaneers who once controlled the northern coast. Oreste denies involvement in drugs, and while Haitian police say they fear that drug money is filtering into his businesses, he is not suspected of drug trafficking. "But I have many friends here involved...