Are Haitians going to be exploited?

Relief efforts in Haiti have been a disaster and the country remains mired in apocalyptic - to make matters worse, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction. Ashley Smith reports that the US is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death", a shock Doctrine for Haiti imposed by the US in the 70s and 80s to undermine the economy, use cheap Haitian labor. Fast forward to today, the US is pushing ahead with the same kind of plan.

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• ashley smith
• lauren lyster
• haiti relief
• plan of death
• economy
• labor
• impoverished
• rt
• russia today

[JDaKingman]

I'm tired of the US Gov. making America and its citizens look like tyrants and basically "bad people" and nobody's doing anything about it?

[gringodeltoro1]

Western model of living is so full of shit: Consume consume CONSUME...until the earth is fucked !

The third world need to kick us out and start all over again !

[Msoolala]

Where are the French? the pauperisation of the Haiti was caused in the first place by the so called 'repatriation payments 'over the last 2 centuries. Globalisation/Imperialiasm lives on

[THEHAITIAN1804]

We welcome the americans to help us, its great but if they think they will abuse and exploit us with u.s. troops they are wrong. They have iraq and afganistan to worry about, they don't want a 3rd hornets nest at their front door.

[shockolanu]

The Haitians are being exploited as we speak by the dudes with guns, from the US army whom are sent there to "keep order". They are basically shooting people whom are looting the stores because they have nothing to eat. Journalists from EuroNews wanted to go inside the area which is guarded by US troops and they were forbidden to do so.

IT IS CLEAR THAT SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING THERE AND THE MILITARY DON'T WANT THE PRESS TO FIND OUT!

[LordCharlesBoustany]

I love Russia Today!

I always get to hear DIFFERENT perspectives...

I'm glad to hear about this Duvalier...

[cerritoboy]

Haiti was already destroyed before the quacke! The earthquacke basically wiped Haiti off the map!

Who destroyed Haiti? The United Fascist Sates of America!

[gringodeltoro1]

correct

[gringodeltoro1]

Let's burn the capital then.... who is with me?

[d2h4w]

globalization is death

[d2h4w]

lauren you are playing devil's advocate. globalization has destroyed haiti. globalization destroys local economy and small farmers. it impoverishes the country and opens to exploitation from huge corporations.