Press Articles
Customs and Border Protection: CBP Issues Withhold Release Order on Central Romana Corporation Limited Nov 23, 2022
Reveal News: US Bans Sugar Imports From Top Dominican Producer Over Forced Labor Allegations Nov 23, 2022
CNN: US blocks sugar imports from top Dominican producer over forced labor concerns Nov 23, 2022
NPR: U.S. bans Dominican sugar company over forced labor Nov 20, 2022
Ways And Means Trade Leaders Reflect On Congressional Delegation to the Dominican Republic. Jul 19, 2022
2022 Dominican Republic Trafficking in Persons Report. July 2022
Jacobin: Haitian Sugarcane Cutters Work as Indentured Servants in the Dominican Republic October 18, 2021
Reveal News: The Bitter Work Behind Sugar September 18, 2021
MotherJones: The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit September 17, 2021
The Economist: “Migrants in the Dominican Republic. No Place like Home“. May 31, 2014
The New York Times: “Suddenly Illegal at Home” by Lorgia García-Peña. December 12, 2013
The Washington Post: “Sugar Protections Prove Easy to Swallow for Lawmakers across Political Spectrum” by Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger. December 8, 2013
The Economist: “A Storm in Hispaniola“. December 7, 2013
El Pais: “Pariahs of the Caribbean” by Mario Vargas Llosa. November 8, 2013
Cincinnati.com: “The Bitter Lives of Sugar Workers“. October 3, 2013
Dominican Today: “Industries Discard U.S. Report of Child, Forced Labor in Sugar Business“. October 1, 2013
Dominican Today: “Sugar Exports to Europe to Increase this Year“. March 2, 2013
AFL-CIO: “Exploitation of Workers in the Dominican Republic’s Sugar Fields Continues” by Cassandra Waters. February 10, 2013
National Film Board of Canada Blog: “Black Sugar. Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic” by Carolyne Weldon. February 1, 2013
The Huffington Post: “Dominican Sugar: US To Look Into Reports Of Worker Abuse In Sugar Industry” by Ezequiel Abiu Lopez. April 24, 2012
Photo Blog on NBCNews.com: “Haitians in Dominican Republic Sugar Plantations Live Anonymous Lives“. March 1, 2012
The Palm Beach Post: “Wikileaks: Fanjuls among ‘Sugar Barons’ who ‘Muscled’ Lawmakers to Kill Free Trade Deal” by Michael LaForgia and Adam Playford. January 2, 2012
The Economist: “Stateless in Santo Domingo” by Luisa Fransua. December 16, 2011
Al Jazeera: “Stranded: Stateless in the Dominican Republic” by Steve Sapienza. July 11, 2011
Dominican Today: “Dominican Sugar Industry Exports Jump 63% to US $157 M“. July 27, 2010
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights: “Memo: Constitutional Changes in the Dominican Republic“. February 5, 2010
The New York Times: “Dominican Crackdown Leaves Children of Haitian Immigrants in Legal Limbo” by Marc Lacey. May 25, 2008
CNN: “Is Sugar Production Modern Day Slavery?” by Steve Turnham. December 18, 2006
Financial Times:“Cane Cutters Seek Sweet Life” by Andy Webb-Vidal. March 10, 2006
