buscone

buscone
 n.β€” Β«The new system calls for Dominican and Haitian buscones, or recruiters, to go to Haiti and promise workers easy money, good housing and soft jobs.Β» β€”β€œHaitians feel oppression from Dominican bias” by Gregory Katz in Bon Repos Repatriation Center, Haiti Dallas Morning News Oct. 25, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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