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| | Wealthy Use Poor Haitians To Keep Dominican Republic on Its Toes |
 | | Stan Goff travelled to the Dominican Republic, a country located on the eastern side of the same island as Haiti in the Caribbean, and gives the Prism this exclusive look at how people there cope and, occasionally, struggle against those who profit from their impoverishment. |
| | The houses of the fincas on the Dominican side are hidden from view, tucked back into the forests, and the only visible structure is the military outpost, a mini-fortress complete with battlements, where bored, suspicious Dominican soldiers stare out over this little edge of Haiti, watchful for incursions from the official Dominican enemy. |
| | Unlike the Dominican Republic, where development is far more advanced, where there are some clear alternative political formations beginning to emerge, where there is enough of an infrastructure to begin envisioning the kind of transformations that could bring a society to a common level of decency and comfort, in Haiti there is no such prospect. |
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