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buscone
 n.— «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.» —“Haitians 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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