Haitians Were Punished because of Aristide

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Graham Greene said it's amusing" that Bill Clinton should be the Obama administration's "man in Haiti" because it was under his presidency, in 1993, that the final blow was given to Haiti as an even minimally workable nation.

And it was all in the name of "democracy and the embezzler and pathological lier Aristide.

The Clinton people wanted to get the former priest, elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, back in power after he was overthrown by the military in 1991, so Washington went along with Organization of American States-imposed restrictions on trade with Haiti, which managed rather quickly to destroy all of the small industries that made Haiti a workable society.

Haiti had made 80 percent of the world's baseballs.

Now those factories, along with others for clothing and other small products, closed for good, with only 10,000 of the former 80,000 workers still employed.

(Those 80,000 workers and their extended families represented at least one-fifth of the population.) Millions of Haitians suffered because of Aristide, a madichons from hell, a fallen priest just like Lucifer was a fallen angel.

Even before that, in 1986, Jean-Claude Duvalier, a not too intelligent person, after he borrowed money from IMF, and under pressure from foreign governments, including Washington, removed Haiti's tariff on imported rice, and soon domestic rice production, by which Haitians had fed themselves, was replaced to the order of 75 percent by American rice. Another victory for the international elites' favored globalization and anti-protectionism in a poor and helpless country! And more trees came down to make charcoals in order for the peasants to survive.

Haiti is a country -- valiant, surely, but tragic actually, Haiti has been under one crazy dictator after another.

All those political demagogues have been embezzlers of public funds and without respect for Haitian lives.

The Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, said:Liberalizing or globalizing trade for a small and undeveloped country will not work, until its industries have matured sufficiently to reach a competitive level, but not before." It needs good governance to "determine its own pace of change" and to see that "benefits are shared equitably." Can Haiti be saved after it was 'embargo 'for democracy because of Aristide, a political demagogue; one who has nothing to show for his tenure but chimeres, kidnappings, embezzlement of public funds and narco-trafficking, not to forget a lot of hot air coming from his mouth.

Only the next few months will tell if Haiti can really be saved.

Melissa, January 18 2010, 11:28 PM

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