As Don José arrives, Carmen dances for him and persuades him to join the traffickers. The smugglers suggest that Carmen should encourage José to join them. The smugglers want to leave with the girls, but Carmen wants to wait for José. They need them to divert the attention of the port authorities. As Escamillo leaves, the smugglers El Dancairo and El Remendado join Carmen and the others. He has been jailed, after letting Carmen escape, and is about to be released. Carmen mesmerizes Escamillo, who tries to talk to her, but she is only thinking about José. Outside, the crowd sings the praises of Escamillo, the “Toreador,” the organizer of traveling bull fights and gambling throughout Haiti, as well as an adversary of Duvalier. Carmen sings to José, seducing him and convincing him to let her escape.Ĭarmen and her friends Frasquita and Mercedes are singing and dancing along with and Morales. Zuniga has her arrested by José and then tries to interrogate her, though he soon loses patience and orders her imprisonment. Shouts are heard from the factory and the square fills with people Carmen is arguing with a fellow workers and stabs her. Micaela returns bringing José a letter from his mother back at their village and some money his mother saved for him. Among the girls entering the square, Carmen appears and taking an interest in José, she brazenly addresses the men and attracts the attention of José by throwing him a flower, which he keeps. Their reunion is interrupted as the bell sounds, summoning the girls of the Comme Il Faut cigarette factory back to work. José hears of the young girl who was looking for him and recognizes Micaela who grew up at his house.
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As the children of Port-Au-Prince pretend to mounted guard, led by captain Zuniga and corporal José, arrive in the market. The men assure her that he is on his way but Micaela says she will return later and leaves. Micaela is looking for a specific soldier, Don José. In the bustling market members of Duvalier’s private militia, nicknamed the Tonton Macoute, patrol the square, while Morales, a soldier in the Haitian Army, stands around chatting with some fellow soldiers and the local men of Port-Au-Prince, when Micaela, a young girl from Anse a Pitres, approaches them.