It was fitting that the Mar. 31 "International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti" was held in the Trusteeship Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the event, Haitian President René Préval in effect turned over the keys to Haiti to a consortium of foreign banks and governments, which will decide how (to use the conference's principal slogan) to "build back better" the country devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
For $10 Billion of "Promises" Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty
posted at Global Research, original source at Haïti Liberté. It appears to me that the same interests that destroyed Haiti's agriculture will now be directing the aid packages.