Why is Haiti impoverished?



Haiti Today, Occupation and Resistance. A short history by Marilyn Langlois of Haiti Action Committee

Haiti's Food Crisis: Imposing Hunger on the People of Haiti
Excerpt from a presentation by Pierre Labossiere at La Pena Cultural Center, June 26, 2008

Haitian Pigs Meet Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
A classic parable of globalization - how the Haitian Creole pig was destroyed

The Persistence of Poverty in the Age of Globalization by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 1997
"Poverty...is not only persisting in the age of globalization, it is becoming more entrenched."

Trade and the disappearance of Haitian rice by Josiane Georges

Woch nan Soley: The Denial of the Right to Water in Haiti

Bush Administration Accused of Withholding Lifesaving Aid to Haiti by Cyril Mychalejko
Report documents human cost of Bush administration war against Haiti's democracy

Neoliberalism in Haiti: the case of rice continues by Haiti Progres

If World Bank wants to help Haiti, it should cancel its debt! by Brian Concannon, Jr
Bank President Robert Zoellick, visiting Haiti October 20th, should cancel the $1 million a week Haiti sends to banks

None Dare Call It Genocide by JOHN MAXWELL
"If Haiti could manage to bring clean water to the people, that alone would revolutionize the country."

Making a Killing from Hunger, April 2008 GRAIN

Killing Hope: US military and CIA interventions since WWII by William Blum
A chapter on Haiti

Haitian and California farmers squeezed by the same company by Food First

Haiti, the Financial Crisis and International Solidarity by Niraj Joshi
Sign the petition to free Haitian Political Prisoner Ronald Dauphin HERE

WE ARE HUNGRY! by Carolyn Bennett
No issue stirs outrage more deeply than man-made food scarcity --spending trillions to kill, forcing millions to riot for rice

RACISM AND POVERTY by John Maxwell
Food riots, hurricane disasters and desperate poverty in Haiti, but World Bank still extracts its pound of flesh. Haiti pays $1 million a WEEK on loans to former dictators.

HAITI'S UNNATURAL DISASTER, interview with Dr. Paul Farmer

DEMOCRACY NOW! Paul Farmer discusses humanitarian disaster after 4 major storms hit Haiti

Neoliberalism in Haiti: the case of rice from Haiti Info, 1995

HAITI: Aristide's Call for Reparations from France by Dionne Jackson Miller
Aristide demanded that France pay Haiti over 21 billion U.S. dollars...equivalent to the 90 million gold francs Haiti was forced to pay Paris after winning its freedom from France 200 years ago. The massive toll France exacted on Haiti played a large part in the Caribbean country's descent into stark poverty and under-development.

DEMOCRACY UNDERMINED, ECONOMIC JUSTICE DENIED by Lisa McGowan January 1997
Structural adjustment and the aid juggernaut in Haiti

WHAT THE WORLD BANK AND IDB OWE HAITI by Dan Beeton, Global Policy Forum

 

  
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