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Haiti Reconstruction: Hotels, Sweatshops and Deregulation

Today, the “international community” is running Haiti again, colonial style. One can easily tell by comparing the very slow construction of shelters and basic infrastructure for the Haitian majority with the rapid rise of luxury hotels for foreigners, sometimes with the help of aid funds which, we were told, were going to provide Haitians with…

Why isn’t aid money going to Haitians?
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Why isn’t aid money going to Haitians?

Three years on from Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the country’s UN special envoy has revealed little  official aid money has gone to the country’s government and organisations. Why is the funding bypassing Haitians? More on the BBC website. Saved as a pdf here: Haiti_quake_aid_money in case link goes. The only way to be sure your money gets through…