Tag Archives: USAID

Caracol Haiti Industrial Park With Projected Adverse Environmental Impact | Caracol, un parc industriel d’Haïti Parc qui aurait un impact environnemental négatif

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 6 of 7. The same week over 300 agricultural plots in Caracol, Haiti, were unexpectedly destroyed, the Haitian government signed an agreement with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, IDB, and Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading to convert the lands into an industrial park. This park will dump its wastes into a bay with extensive coraf reefs and one of the country’s last mangrove forests. (English | French)

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What’s Planned for Haiti? | Quel est le plan pour Haïti?

avatarPosted on by December 14, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 4 of 7. ”You get some factories and some salaries, and everything else is imported…. People need to know what FTZs are, what has happened in Mexico, or Honduras, so they don’t think these things will ‘save’ us.” – Camille Chalmers, Economist. (English | French)

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Anti-Union, Pro-‘Race to the Bottom’Anti-syndicalisme, pro-‘course vers le bas’

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 2 of 7. “It’s a big error to bet on the slave-wage labor, on breaking the backs of workers who are paid nothing while [foreign] companies get rich. It’s not only an error, it’s a crime…. [Assembly factories] work with imported materials, they’re enclaves. They don’t have much effect on the economy.” – Haitian economist Camille Chalmers. (English | French)

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The Uses of Haiti’s Poor Children: Guinea Pigs for Cholera Vaccines | Utilisations des enfants pauvres d’Haïti comme animaux-sujets pour les experiences avec des vaccins contre le choléra

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Ministry of Health finally gave in and officially announced the beginning of a vaccination campaign against cholera, after one year of pressure from the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The proposed vaccine, called Shanchol, is wrought with scandal, and preparations for use in developing countries contain the dangerous mercury-based preservative thiomersal. (English | French)

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Haiti: After the Quake

avatarPosted on by October 13, 2011

By Sebastian Walker Al Jazeera Sebastian Walker saw firsthand how Haitians dug up their dead from the rubble with their bare hands. He witnessed people struggling to recover from an earthquake, violent weather and disease. Millions throughout the country were … Continue reading →

Fertile Land Seized for New Sweatshop Zone | Un déficit d’information publique sur le parc industriel du nord

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Sylvestre Fils Dorcilus, Alter Presse. “It’s the most fertile area we have at Caracol…. It’s inconceivable and unacceptable that the government could choose this part of the land to set up an industrial park.” – Resident Renel Pierre (English | French)

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U.S. Agency Sabotages Haiti Earthquake Aid

avatarPosted on by February 25, 2019

By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. After so many injuries to Haiti over so many years, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) now insults the living and the dead with a report that questions how many people died in the quake, and how many remain in camps for the displaced.

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Let Them Live on $3 a Day | Usines Levis et Hanes ont combattu, avec l’ambassade des É.-U., l’augmentation du salaire minimum en Haïti

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, The Nation. Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. (English | French)

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A Prefab Parliament, Prefab President, and Prefab Constitution for Occupied Haiti

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Michel Martelly’s inauguration on May 14, 2011 should have brought into effect a new US-written constitution for Haiti, with amendments of over one third of all the Articles in the country’s 1987 Constitution.

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U.S. Military Convoy To Seal Haiti’s Elections

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “American military will not be sent to Haiti in advance of the election results,” U.S. embassy speaker Jon Pietchowski answered last Friday when confronted with rumors that U.S. soldiers were en route to Haiti to enforce security on the announcement of the presidential and legislative election results.

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Should We Care About the Return of Haiti’s Idiot Son, Jean-Claude Duvalier?

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti got its idiot son Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1972. He was never elected president: not even by a fraudulent count. He was inaugurated “President for Life” one year after the death of his father François Duvalier. This event was feted by the international community with the return of aid to Haiti after a decade’s hiatus.

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Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.

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