This morning the Clintons landed in Northern Haiti to attend the inaugural opening of the industrial park. They are set to speak at the head of a delegation of foreign investors and a crowd of celebrities to showcase the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to help the country recover from the 2010 earthquake. The list of celebrities included Sean Penn, who has run his own aid effort in Haiti, was there, along with actor Ben Stiller, fashion designer Donna Karen and British business tycoon Richard Branson.
This industrial park sector was constructed with high hopes that it will rejuvenate the economic wellbeing of the state as well as create a new source of employment for citizens. Although Clinton has high hopes for this new project, some Haitians have a very different view and say the Caracol Industrial Park is just replicating failed efforts from the past and that it will benefit outsiders much more than Haitians. They also worry it will harm some of the few pieces of undamaged environment that still exist in Haiti.
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