In the late 1990s, the Haitian Music Industry was booming. Bals, or parties, attracted thousands of revelers. A new sound, Nouvelle Generation, was in full bloom in New York, Miami and Haiti.
All of it coincided with Haiti becoming a major transshipment route for Colombian drug dealers. The country was awash with cocaine money.
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