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By the end of the year, Hartley had partnered with Dominican human rights lawyer Noemí Méndez, who was born in a batey. Together they toured camps controlled by the powerful Vicini family, where his Haitian parishioners worked, and talked to cañeros about their rights and distributed copies of the Dominican Constitution. They both began to get death threats; Hartley says he would receive them until they drove him from the country in 2006.
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- ↑ "1st Circuit revives defamation suit against sugar documentary". Legal News. Thomson Reuters News & Insight. December 2, 2011.
- Ferran, Fernando. The legacy of Jose Maria Vicini Cabral, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2007.