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Do not fill this in! ===Caracol Industrial Park=== On 21 October 2012, Haitian President [[Michel Martelly]], US Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]], Bill Clinton, [[Richard Branson]], [[Ben Stiller]] and [[Sean Penn]] inaugurated the {{convert|600|acre|ha|adj=on|order=flip|sigfig=2}} Caracol industrial park, the largest in the [[Caribbean]].<ref name="usatoday.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/10/22/clinton-haiti-earthquake/1650763/ |title=Clintons land in Haiti to showcase industrial park | work = [[USA Today]] |date= 22 October 2012 |access-date= 11 January 2014}}</ref> The project cost US$300 million and included a 10-megawatt [[power plant]], a water-treatment plant and worker housing.<ref name="usatoday.com" /> The plan for the park pre-dated the 2010 earthquake but was fast-tracked as part of US foreign aid strategy to help Haiti recover.<ref name="bostonreview">{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jake-johnston-haiti-earthquake-aid-caracol/ | title=Outsourcing Haiti | work = [[Boston Review]] | date = 16 January 2014 | access-date = 24 March 2024}}</ref> The park was part of a "master plan" for Haiti's North and North-East departments, including the expansion of the [[Cap-Haïtien International Airport]] to accommodate large international flights, the construction of an international seaport in [[Fort-Liberté]] and the opening of the $50 million Roi Henri Christophe Campus of a new university in Limonade (near Cap-Haïtien) on 12 January 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/haiti-clinton-caracol-idUSL1E8LM3BF20121022 |title=Clintons preside at star-studded opening of Haitian industrial park |publisher=Reuters.com |date=22 October 2012 |access-date=24 July 2013 |archive-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619104102/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/22/haiti-clinton-caracol-idUSL1E8LM3BF20121022 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]] believed the park had the potential to create as many as 65,000 jobs once fully developed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uspolicy.be/headline/state-dept-fact-sheet-haitis-caracol-industrial-park |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150421070053/http://www.uspolicy.be/headline/state-dept-fact-sheet-haitis-caracol-industrial-park |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2015 |title=State Dept. Fact Sheet on Haiti's Caracol Industrial Park |publisher=US Policy |date=22 October 2012 |access-date=20 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usaid.gov/haiti/caracol-industrial-park |title=Caracol Industrial Park |publisher=USAID |year=2014 |access-date=20 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219063300/http://www.usaid.gov/haiti/caracol-industrial-park |archive-date=19 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[South Korea]]n clothing manufacturer [[Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd]], the park's only major tenant, created 5,000 permanent jobs out of the 20,000 it had projected and promised to build 5,000 houses yet only 750 homes had been built near Caracol by 2014.<ref name="bostonreview" /> Ten years later, the park was considered to have failed to uphold its promise to deliver the transformation the Clintons had promised.<ref name="guardiancaracol">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid |title=Haiti and the failed promise of US aid | work = [[The Guardian]] | date =11 October 2019 | access-date = 24 March 2024}}</ref> The US invested tens of millions of dollars into the port project but eventually abandoned it.<ref name="guardiancaracol" /> In order to establish the park, hundreds of families of small farmers had to be removed from the land, approximately 3,500 people overall.<ref name="buzzfeed">{{cite news |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/karlazabludovsky/haiti-industrial-park-caracol | title=These Haitians Were Children When A US-Funded Project Evicted Them | work = [[Buzzfeed]] | date=15 June 2022 | access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref> An audit by the [[United States Government Accountability Office]] uncovered that the port project lacked "staff with technical expertise in planning, construction, and oversight of a port" and revealed that [[USAid]] hadn't constructed a port anywhere since the 1970s.<ref name="guardiancaracol" /> A USAid feasability study in 2015 found that "a new port was not viable for a variety of technical, environmental and economic reasons", that the US was short US$72m in funds to cover the majority of the projected costs, and that private companies USAid had wanted to attact "had no interest in supporting the construction of a new port in northern Haiti".<ref name="guardiancaracol" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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