Haiti: There are facts (Update)
*Pg. 20
“As punishment for creating the first free republic in the Americas…… the new Republic of Haiti was met with global economic embargo imposed by the United States and Europe. The embargo was straightened by a further demand from France for financial reparations of roughly $21 billion (2004 dollars) as compensation from the newly free slaves for denying France the further benefit of owning them. It became the first time in history that reparations would be imposed by a defeated nation on the nation that had defeated it.”
“As late as 1915, 111 years after the successful slave revolt, some 80 percent of the Haitian government’s resources were being paid out in debt service to French and American banks on loans that had been made to enable Haiti to pay reparations to France.”
Pg. 47
“On February 7, 2003, the President raised the country’s national minimum wage from thirty-five gourds to seventy gourds (US$2) a day. The initiative touched off a firestorm of protest.” as well as a firestorm when Pres. Aristide wanted to strike the name “Peasant” from birth certificates of rural Blacks. (Pg. 38) and wanted to take his people “from misery to poverty with dignity." (Pg. 60)
Between pgs. 152-153, there was a group identified as “Group 184” working to outs Pres. Aristide and 7,500 elected officials from Haiti. On pg. 204, Sec. Of State Colin Powell proclaimed in a press release that Pres. Aristide voluntarily got on the plane to leave his country going into exile. (Smile)
Pg. 22
“In 1922, seven years into a nineteen-year American military occupation of Haiti that resulted in 15,000 Haitians deaths, the United State imposed a $16 million loan on the Haitian government to pay off its ‘debt’ to France. ……..The Haitian economy never recovered.”
Pg. 17
“By the time the church-schools were finally created, after the Concordat in which the Vatican formally recognized Haiti, these urban elites had already turned the education system so that it would serve their needs exclusively.”
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. I wonder why no TV took pictures of the Haitians blocking roads with dead bodies and would love to hear evidence of them singing during the night. Where is news coverage from the other side of the island for comparison, if any?
* “An Unbroken Agony” by Randall Robinson. Basic Civitas Books, 2007
(Update)
Why the US Owes Haiti Billions - The Briefest History
By Bill Quigley
“As punishment for creating the first free republic in the Americas…… the new Republic of Haiti was met with global economic embargo imposed by the United States and Europe. The embargo was straightened by a further demand from France for financial reparations of roughly $21 billion (2004 dollars) as compensation from the newly free slaves for denying France the further benefit of owning them. It became the first time in history that reparations would be imposed by a defeated nation on the nation that had defeated it.”
“As late as 1915, 111 years after the successful slave revolt, some 80 percent of the Haitian government’s resources were being paid out in debt service to French and American banks on loans that had been made to enable Haiti to pay reparations to France.”
Pg. 47
“On February 7, 2003, the President raised the country’s national minimum wage from thirty-five gourds to seventy gourds (US$2) a day. The initiative touched off a firestorm of protest.” as well as a firestorm when Pres. Aristide wanted to strike the name “Peasant” from birth certificates of rural Blacks. (Pg. 38) and wanted to take his people “from misery to poverty with dignity." (Pg. 60)
Between pgs. 152-153, there was a group identified as “Group 184” working to outs Pres. Aristide and 7,500 elected officials from Haiti. On pg. 204, Sec. Of State Colin Powell proclaimed in a press release that Pres. Aristide voluntarily got on the plane to leave his country going into exile. (Smile)
Pg. 22
“In 1922, seven years into a nineteen-year American military occupation of Haiti that resulted in 15,000 Haitians deaths, the United State imposed a $16 million loan on the Haitian government to pay off its ‘debt’ to France. ……..The Haitian economy never recovered.”
Pg. 17
“By the time the church-schools were finally created, after the Concordat in which the Vatican formally recognized Haiti, these urban elites had already turned the education system so that it would serve their needs exclusively.”
Post:
What the Mainstream Media Will Not Tell You About Haiti: Part of the Suffering of Haiti is "Made in the USA"
Excerpt:
The government was systematically starved of funds. The public sector shrank away. Poor people streamed to the cities.
Thus there are no rescue units. Little public healthcare is available.
So when disaster struck, the people of Haiti were on their own. We can see them pitching in. We can see them trying. They are courageous and generous and innovative, but volunteers cannot replace government. So people suffer and die in greater numbers than necessary.
Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/what-the-mainstream-media_b_424126.html
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. I wonder why no TV took pictures of the Haitians blocking roads with dead bodies and would love to hear evidence of them singing during the night. Where is news coverage from the other side of the island for comparison, if any?
* “An Unbroken Agony” by Randall Robinson. Basic Civitas Books, 2007
(Update)
Why the US Owes Haiti Billions - The Briefest History
By Bill Quigley
Excerpt:
From 1957 to 1986 Haiti was forced to live under US backed dictators "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvlaier. The US supported these dictators economically and militarily because they did what the US wanted and were politically "anti-communist" - now translatable as against human rights for their people. Duvalier stole millions from Haiti and ran up hundreds of millions in debt that Haiti still owes. Ten thousand Haitians lost their lives. Estimates say that Haiti owes $1.3 billion in external debt and that 40% of that debt was run up by the US-backed Duvaliers.
And
Thirty years ago Haiti imported no rice. Today Haiti imports nearly all its rice. Though Haiti was the sugar growing capital of the Caribbean, it now imports sugar as well. Why? The US and the US dominated world financial institutions - the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - forced Haiti to open its markets to the world. Then the US dumped millions of tons of US subsidized rice and sugar into Haiti - undercutting their farmers and ruining Haitian agriculture. By ruining Haitian agriculture, the US has forced Haiti into becoming the third largest world market for US rice. Good for US farmers, bad for Haiti.
Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/why-the-us-owes-haiti-bil_b_426260.html
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