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- 'New Haiti,' Same Corporate Interests
- ... the earthquake that has killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti, the foreign ministers of several countries calling themselves the " Friends of Haiti " met on Monday in Montreal to discuss plans for "building a new Haiti." ...
- Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
- ... Policy in Focus Some of the advice for how Haiti ought to rebuild after the earthquake sounds hauntingly familiar. There are echoes of the same bad development advice Haiti has received for decades, even before the nation faced its current ...
- Haiti Smashed, Diaspora Shaken, Deportations Frozen
- The devastation in Haiti is unrelenting, an avalanche of natural catastrophe exacerbated by ... how much tragedy one tiny island country can bear, and Haiti seems to be testing the limits of a people’s resilience in the face ... on Democracy Now! on the historical trajectory of Haiti's suffering: Indeed, the first black republic in this ...
- IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti's Loan
- ... I wrote about the IMF's new $100 million loan to Haiti. I cited debt relief activists who told me that the new loan would be an ... to the existing IMF-supported arrangement with Haiti under the Extended Credit Facility [ECF]." The IMF's announcement ... to the loan and made no mention of future debt relief for Haiti. My post was based largely on an analysis by Soren Ambrose, the ...
- The West Owes Haiti a Bailout. And It Would Be a Hand-Back, Not a Handout
- ... and international agencies calling themselves Friends of Haiti, to discuss the long and short term needs of the recently devastated ... the assembled "friends" would not commit to cancelling Haiti's $1bn debt. Instead they agreed to a 10-year plan with no details, and a ...
- Dying in Haiti: Humanitarian Crisis Enters Second Week
- As the unprecedented humanitarian relief effort in Haiti struggles through logistical chaos, triaging shipments of food, medicine, ... . And so thousands of troops continue to descend on Haiti in droves, while reports of humanitarian aid being impeded or ...
- Clearing the Rubble, Including the Old Plan for Haiti
- ... the morning's headlines, donating a million dollars to Haiti's relief / reconstruction effort. Collectively U.S. citizens have donated ... how, and what plan? A second, related question is where Haiti will get the funds for the rest of the effort conservatively estimated at ...
- Haiti: A Creditor, Not a Debtor
- ... If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: ... of debt." In this telling, the whole idea that Haiti is a debtor needs to be abandoned. Haiti, he argues, is a creditor—and it is we, in the West, who are deeply ...
- HAITI: Private Contractors 'Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot'
- ... of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military ... Peace Operations Association (IPOA), is co-organising a "Haiti summit" which aims to bring together "leading officials" for "private ...
- Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment
- There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour of promised salvation. More than a week ... chimes with well-established traditions of keeping Haiti under control. In the last couple of days, another motivation has ... as the US has launched a full-scale naval blockade of Haiti to prevent a seaborne exodus by refugees seeking sanctuary in the United ...
