... de la dette d'indépendance à la France : emprunts avec intérêt pour rembourser, cercle vicieux rendant quasiment impossible tout investissement pour construire routes, usines logements, écoles...ETC, dont la population a besoin.
LiSEZ.
International trade has dictated Haiti’s economy almost since Christopher Columbus landed on Hispaniola by mistake, in 1492. After Spain and later France colonised the island, they imported African slaves to produce one of the most lucrative commodities in history – sugar – and exported it around the globe. By the eve of Haiti’s independence, which Haitians won in 1804, global trade had made the country one of the most profitable pieces of land in the world.
But all this international commerce has rarely benefited the vast majority of Haitians. Little of the wealth generated in the country has ever stayed there. For almost its entire history, Haiti has owed a trade debt to other nations – most notably, a $21bn (in today’s money) burden levied by France after independence. During the two centuries that followed, the effect of these debts has been to severely impoverish the country, and to make it beholden to the rich nations who have acted as its creditors. In the past 100 years, the US and the international financial institutions it partners with have been the most important of these creditors, indebting Haiti by extending foreign development loans and creating a trade imbalance – an early form of the neoliberal model."
Ce qui me tue c'est que ceux qui à priori connaissent le mieux le sujet, ceux qui ont les moyens de se documenter, qui sont capables de lire en anglais, sont ceux précisément qui ont saboté en 2004 la commémoration des 200 ans d'indépendance, sont ceux qui se sont couchés devant les Clinton en 2010 après le séisme en échange de quelques pourboires, vu que les contrats sont allés à des firmes US; et que la majorité de l'argent récolté aux USA pour Haïti est retourné aux USA. Un exemple de ce que ce M. GELIN nomme sans sourire ni rire , sérieux comme un pape, la " générosité " des USA
LISEZ.
By January 2019, nine years after the earthquake, USAid had spent $2.3bn in Haiti. Most of it was given to American companies and hardly any passed through Haitian hands. Less than 3% of that spending went directly to Haitian organisations or firms, according to research by CEPR. In contrast, 55% of the money went to American companies located in and around Washington DC. Most likely, according to the research, the majority of what USAid allegedly spent on Haiti’s recovery ended right back in the US."
Quant au roi et à la reine d'Haïti, les intouchables Bill et Hillary Clinton, ils ont appliqué la même politique que celle avec le riz bien que B. Clinton eut reconnu auparavant qu'elle avait ruiné la production de riz de l'Artibonite. Ce pourquoi je garde une méfiance devant les excuses des Occidentaux , j'ai toujours eu l'impression que l'excuse prépare une offense plus grave- dans ce cas j'avais raison.
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LISEZ.
Despite his acknowledgement that the US’s prior attempt to liberalise Haiti’s economy had decimated its agricultural sector, in 2010, after the earthquake struck, Bill Clinton and his allies prescribed the same, familiar medicine – this time in the form of construction projects and clothing, instead of rice.
One year later, Bill presided over a conference at which building firms from across the globe presented their designs for permanent housing for the displaced, most of which never came to fruition, in part because many were financially or practically infeasible, and in part for lack of land on which to build them. The largest piece of real estate of Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction was not built for poor Haitians at all, but for wealthy ones and foreigners: a new Marriott hotel in Port-au-Prince, financed by a multinational telecoms corporation whose chairman was a friend of Clinton’s. The Clinton Foundation brokered the deal, and Bill inaugurated the hotel in 2015."
Tout ceci est dramatique. Et c'est rageant de savoir que les principaux acteurs de cette assistance mortelle (courtoisie cinéaste R. Peck) jouissent en toute impunité de la ruée vers l'or ( courtoisie ex ambassadeur des USA Merten) d'une part et d'autre part du casse du siècle : les 4milliards de Petro Caribe.
Et puis c'est terriblement dégoutant ces membres du gouvernement d'Ariel qui se préparent à recommencer le même cirque des élections truquées avec les mêmes dresseurs des "animaux" et des volatiles (les canards sauvages) qu'ils se réjouissent d'être. ( Comportements qui nous font penser aux contes de Bouki et Malice) Et puis il y a les media, les youtubeurs, les éditorialistes, les zentelektyèl, les politiciens qui se gardent bien de toucher là où ça fait mal. Vous n'en trouverez pas une de ces personnes à parler par exemple de cet article, à le commenter, à en traduire des passages en créole, et à le recommander. à leurs auditeurs.
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Haiti and the failed promise of US aid
The long read: After an earthquake struck in 2010, the US pledged to help rebuild the Caribbean country. A decade later, nothing better symbolises the failure of these efforts than the story of a ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid
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