Homelands’ co-founder and award-winning Investigative journalist Sandy Tolan’s latest book tells the story behind the secretive sugar industry and the billionaire Fanjul family that owns Domino Sugar and Florida Crystals.
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The Homelands Blog
US bans sugar imports after probe
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has blocked shipments of raw sugar from a top Dominican producer after finding indications of forced labor at its plantation. The probe followed an investigation led by Homelands’ Sandy Tolan and Haitian-Dominican journalist Euclides Cordero Nuel.
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The Homelands Blog
Guards sow fear in sugar camps
In a piece published by The Intercept, Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel describe how armed bands of masked men descend on labor camps and forcibly evict residents. Tolan and Cordero Nuel won an Overseas Press Club Award for their reporting on labor abuses by the giant Dominican sugar exporter Central Romana.