We had an interesting visit last Friday, although it didn't really come as a surprise here in Haiti. A judge and a bunch of policemen showed up and started looking around and told us that we needed to stop working. We have all of the necessary permits to be building, but since they had the guns we thought we'd better do what they said. They were out of their jurisdiction and had no right to be there, so it was obvious what they were looking for. A big fat bribe. Since we weren't willing to pay them off, we had to postpone work for about five days until we could get the necessary documents from a higher court override their order for us to stop work. Unfortunately these situations are pretty common here, the corruption runs deep.
We had an interesting visit last Friday, although it didn't really come as a surprise here in Haiti. A judge and a bunch of policemen showed up and started looking around and told us that we needed to stop working. We have all of the necessary permits to be building, but since they had the guns we thought we'd better do what they said. They were out of their jurisdiction and had no right to be there, so it was obvious what they were looking for. A big fat bribe. Since we weren't willing to pay them off, we had to postpone work for about five days until we could get the necessary documents from a higher court override their order for us to stop work. Unfortunately these situations are pretty common here, the corruption runs deep. 
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