SUMMARYThe Clintons in Ayiti: Caracol Industrial Park [Connections: Clintons in Ayiti, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDBuilt in the north on farmland near Caracol (where the Taíno town and La Navidad region sit) with USAID ($170 million for a power plant and port), the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian government. Anchor tenant: Korean garment maker Sae-A, which said Hillary Clinton personally invited it. Officials promised "tens of thousands" of jobs; about 8,100–9,400 existed four years later. Only 41% of piece-rate workers met the target minimum wage (Better Work Haiti); the Worker Rights Consortium accused Sae-A of wage theft
LENS (WW9)Farmers' land turned into a sweatshop zone sewing clothes for Target and Walmart, next to the bay where Columbus's ship ran aground
SOURCEPolitiFact, Oct 11, 2016; Haiti Grassroots Watch, Mar 2013.