In Haiti, industrial park fuels hope and anxiety
Braving the heat, Fanilia Prospere took a break from pushing her wheelbarrow of imported used clothing to look around. Then she smiled.
In Haiti, where so many promises of change turn to dust, the evolving landscape was worth the moment of contemplation: warehouse-sized factory shells rising from fertile soil, bulldozers rumbling distantly as they cleared farmland to build hundreds of homes and unemployed young men chattering under a mango tree about the change that was coming to Caracol.
"Caracol is getting another image," said Prospere, 30, a mother of three. "There are a lot of people who weren't working, but they are now working. And a lot of people who want to work and who I believe will be soon working."
For the bucolic but impoverished fishing village on Haiti's northern coast, the sight of foreign dollars creating new housing and jobs is filled with hope - and worry that the multimillion-dollar investments also will spawn the all-too-familiar slums.
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