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"Simple fishermen became millionaires overnight. People were pouring into the local nightclubs and showering themselves with bottles of beer. In time, it corrupted the town at its most basic level. And today, the biggest impact of all this cocaine is a new sense of insecurity."

—Los Angeles Times. A year ago, residents of the town of Grand-Goave, Haiti, where unemployment nears 100 percent, overpowered a boat off-loading 8,400 pounds of cocaine, confiscated it, and turned it into their source of income. Now, because of incidents like this, not even the drug traffickers want to work in Haiti, and these sudden windfalls have left permanent social and economic wounds. "Any of the townsfolk who scored a bag or two sold some of the drugs and bought weapons to protect the rest. With sudden disposable income, there was a new market for prostitution, and the local radio commentators say local girls as young as 12 entered the trade."'

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