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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00266.htm
Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt Forgiveness
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 12:23 pm
Press Release: Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Justice for Haiti: Beyond Aid and Debt
Forgiveness
by COHA
Research Associate Ethan Katz and Visiting Scholar Daniel
Boscov-Ellen
Over the last few months there has been a
surfeit of talk in the international community over what
should be done for Haiti. However, in almost all of these
discussions Haiti’s historical context is completely
excised â€" it is almost as if the country had only come
into being as a result of January’s earthquake. This
collective amnesia is damning. The hurricanes of 2008 and
the recent earthquake brought unfathomable damage upon
Haiti, but their effects have been greatly exacerbated by
Haiti’s widespread poverty, lack of adequate public
infrastructure, food insecurity and an utterly bleak
horizon. Unlike the hurricanes and earthquake, these are not
natural phenomena. The devastating nature of these natural
disasters cannot be understood apart from over two centuries
of Haiti’s colonial and postcolonial subjugation, foreign
occupation, economic exploitation and the degrading
conditions faced by most of its population.
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