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market in a massive factory in port-au-prince.nt and the current administration want us to believe that haiti is open for business. is it? baker: no. we have the most expensive port in the nation, in the world. my labor is getting more expensive. my rent is more expensive. my banking fees are more expensive. stephanie: according to the world bank, difficult access to permits, credit, and electricity make haiti one of the hardest countries to do business in. baker: when you come in and you look at the situation, haiti is closed for business. it is not open for business. stephanie: textiles, like the uniforms produced in baker's factory, make up 90% of haiti's exports. and almost all go directly to the united states. haitian textile manufacturers account for 10% of gdp and employ over 36,000 people. baker: right after the earthquake, the first thought that came to our mind -- we had 990 employees. how do we help them? i borrowed $120,000 from my customers. and bought food. stephanie: baker estimates that each of his employees suppor
market in a massive factory in port-au-prince.nt and the current administration want us to believe that haiti is open for business. is it? baker: no. we have the most expensive port in the nation, in the world. my labor is getting more expensive. my rent is more expensive. my banking fees are more expensive. stephanie: according to the world bank, difficult access to permits, credit, and electricity make haiti one of the hardest countries to do business in. baker: when you come in and you look...
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Mar 12, 2015
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i think two parts of that question, one, why so far away from port-au-prince, and the reason is that port-au-prince concentrated so much of the economic activity to the northern part of haiti was poorer, substantially ever pooer, so one of the ideas that the government has was this. development always has trade offs. the trade off was agriculture in land that is 250 hectors verses converting that to industrial production, and we fully supported this move, to explain it, of what we see today, three years ago that was land being farmed by farmers about 400 farmers that were generated about 1 dollar as day for their income. today you have 5,000 workers bringing home five times that every day, the income from that plot of land, is today 60 times more for the community than you had three years ago so we think that the trade off is worth it. >> jose, we told our communities about this. 400 families that was supposed to generate 65,000 jobs so far it is 1500. a lot of people in haiti have been called for increase foreign investment, it would be nice to know about the park, is it going to hi
i think two parts of that question, one, why so far away from port-au-prince, and the reason is that port-au-prince concentrated so much of the economic activity to the northern part of haiti was poorer, substantially ever pooer, so one of the ideas that the government has was this. development always has trade offs. the trade off was agriculture in land that is 250 hectors verses converting that to industrial production, and we fully supported this move, to explain it, of what we see today,...
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Mar 29, 2015
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market in a massive factory in port-au-prince.nd the current administration want us to believe that haiti is open for business. is it? baker: no. we have the most expensive port in the nation, in the world. my labor is getting more expensive. my rent is more expensive. my banking fees are more expensive. stephanie: according to the world bank, difficult access to permits, credit, and electricity make haiti one of the hardest countries to do business in. baker: when you come in and you look at the situation, haiti is closed for business. it is not open for business. stephanie: textiles, like the uniforms produced in baker's factory, make up 90% of haiti's exports. and almost all go directly to the united states. haitian textile manufacturers account for 10% of gdp and employ over 36,000 people. baker: right after the earthquake, the first thought that came to our mind -- we had 990 employees. how do we help them? i borrowed $120,000 from my customers and bought food. stephanie: baker estimates that each of his employees supports an
market in a massive factory in port-au-prince.nd the current administration want us to believe that haiti is open for business. is it? baker: no. we have the most expensive port in the nation, in the world. my labor is getting more expensive. my rent is more expensive. my banking fees are more expensive. stephanie: according to the world bank, difficult access to permits, credit, and electricity make haiti one of the hardest countries to do business in. baker: when you come in and you look at...
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Mar 5, 2015
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back at their headquarters in downtown port-au-prince the fruits of the lawyers' painstaking labor is kept in a dusty store-room, still waiting for the day it will be used in court. >> these are all the case files in here? >> yes, this is the first five thousand filed. not only have we filled the form, they're notarized. they said "we received the complaints, we will give you an answer and respond in due time" - i don't know when the reasonable time will be. >> but it's been more than a year? >> more than a year, yes. >> and you've heard nothing? >> nothing, nothing. >> faced with the un's silence the lawyers decided to expand the lawsuit, adding more names to the thousands who'd already filed a complaint. >> un have to respond. >> un must respond. they promote human rights. we will continue to fight. until they respond, we will file complaints. for all the people! the 2010 earthquake killed more than 220,000 people - those who lost their lives are remembered each year with dignitaries from around the world coming to pay their respects. but for those who've died - and continue to die
back at their headquarters in downtown port-au-prince the fruits of the lawyers' painstaking labor is kept in a dusty store-room, still waiting for the day it will be used in court. >> these are all the case files in here? >> yes, this is the first five thousand filed. not only have we filled the form, they're notarized. they said "we received the complaints, we will give you an answer and respond in due time" - i don't know when the reasonable time will be. >> but...
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as night falls they secure a truck to assess the damage in port-au-prince. >> it was dark. no electricity. people are burning tires on the streets just to debt light. >> with them is cameraman inkvar. he's filming for a documentary about isar never imagining sights like these. >> it was -- you know. you have to -- it moves you, of course. >> there seems to be no end to the suffering. isar veteran gundomson is stunned. there is no time to mourn, fearing disease, the government orders all bodies removed interest the city. you are picking up bodies and dumping them into dump trucks and they were taken outside of the city and buried in mass graves. this is something i never could have imagined. >> the light of day reveals even more tragedy as the team drives to their first search loerks. >> in full daylight, you could see the scale of disaster. >> people everywhere, in open spaces. it was a city in ruins. >> one of port-au-prince's largest supermarkets, the caribbean market, has collapsed with an estimated 100 people inside. a venezuelan rescue team is already on site. >> i had
as night falls they secure a truck to assess the damage in port-au-prince. >> it was dark. no electricity. people are burning tires on the streets just to debt light. >> with them is cameraman inkvar. he's filming for a documentary about isar never imagining sights like these. >> it was -- you know. you have to -- it moves you, of course. >> there seems to be no end to the suffering. isar veteran gundomson is stunned. there is no time to mourn, fearing disease, the...