A full two-thirds of the earthquake casualties in Haiti on January 12, 2010 were directly due to policies that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) put in place to create surplus labor for the country’s sweatshops.
This week we hear of another barbaric act by certain criminals in the DR against a Haitian. As Ezili’s HLLN constantly points out, according to official statistics, Haitians are the least violent people in the Caribbean. Nations such as the colonized Dominican Republic have four times more violence, larger militarized forces, more foreigners owning DR property and lots of pedophile tourists and prostitution.
Toussaint, the most unhappy of men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head be now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon’s earless den
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
Wilt though find patience! Yet die not; do thou
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow:
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There’s not a breathing of the common wind
Those who forget the past are often condemned to repeat its mistakes.
On February 29, 2004 the US, France, and Canada overthrew Haiti’s elected government. The foreign military intervention led to an unmitigated human rights disaster.
