Genest, one of the leaders of the opposition to the government’s proposal to turn their island into a tourist haven, sits in front of his home on Ile-a-Vache island, off Haiti’s south coast

Jerome Genest, one of the leaders of the opposition to the government’s proposal to turn their island into a tourist haven, sits in front of his home on Ile-a-Vache island, off Haiti’s south coast, March 26, 2014. For decades the mostly dirt-poor residents of the small island of Ile-a-Vache off Haiti’s south coast lived in anonymity, until last year when the government claimed the 20-square-mile former pirate lair as a “public utility,” potentially stripping the 14,000 residents of their land to develop a high-end tourist resort. Picture taken March 26, 2014. REUTERS/stringer (HAITI – Tags: TRAVEL POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS)

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