How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti

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[pongman]

If I owned an airplane I'd be in Haiti sowing seeds of every fruit and vegetable that their climate could sustain. Fuck the World Bank and the US corporations! It's Spring and they should be planting their crops for Mid-Summer harvest. This is so fucking sad.

[32oz]

If these countries tax the incoming food then the world bank will deny them the loans they need for development. Like the US these countries do not have enough money to support development. But, unlike the US no one will invest in their treasury. So to get the extra funds they must apply for loans from international banks. "Free trade" and other neoliberal policies are usually the strings attached to these loans. Strings that have left these countries worst off, yet no one is responsibility.

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@immanent Those institutions were made to crush Haiti's economy by the US government. Apparently they went against their own internal rules to do so. (In the book by Peter Hallward, who is interviewed in another Real News report on Haiti.)

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@ehunter2 Well, if that's your religious belief, then the historical facts can hardly mean much to you.

[NicosNicosNicosNicos]

@ehunter2 It's economy has been effectively run by France and the US in support of a corrupt minority there. The US always does everything in its power to prevent the local population from taking control of its own resources. You can even blame "blackey" now that Obama is president if you like.

[kimber202]

@lysel3 It just may be too late

[kimber202]

@thebabybottombutt ..seriously, look up HAARP on here..and then go to their web site..it is a government agency..You may just be amazed. They ARE messing with our ionisphere, and they ARE admitting it..no one seems to care yet..scary!! Go see

[moneymagnetelizabeth]

Their trade was restricted thus their crop production failed. Trade was shifted to S. America. Is this right that the WTO restricted their trade?

[cvzdez]

And actually is never worked in the US whichis why labor laws were created, and taxed and tarrifs existed. Corprations they are like ANTES THAT seep into the infratructure of a homse and is not regulated correctly can be a deadly weapon upon a nation is not regulated to an extent . Why because as quted from out early American history by Big business trust company ower of the 1900 "survial of the fitest"

[cvzdez]

Now many people confuse those two things they are not the same. Democracy gives right to individuals. Anc capitalism is free trat for Corp. and Individuals. Lets be hones individual will never beat out a corpoation. Unlest the form their own collective economic power. The problem with haiti(other poor countries) and even the US is that these corporations have the same rights as an individaul. Under the original laws of capitalism without gover't interference This will never work

[cvzdez]

Democracy is a system of government by which political sovereignty is retained by the people and exercised directly by citizens. In modern times it has also been used to refer to a constitutional republic where the people have a voice through their elected representatives.

[cvzdez]

Capitalism in its narrowest sense is simply private ownership of capital. Capitalism, the economic system, is the system in which the means of production are owned by private persons, and operated for**** profit***

Capitalism is usually considered to involve the right of individuals and corporations to trade, using money, in goods, services (including finance), labor and land