Reply #7: Not too long ago [View All]

[malaise]

Haitians used to grow their own rice and feed themselves.

First they destroy your agriculture and industries, make you dependent and then raise prices. Don't forget that the three Ds - or four as I see it (devalue, deregulate, divest and then die of debt precede the destruction of your independence (that's the plan). Then US politicians side with lobbyists from the American corporations to kill off the banana industry and slowly that is replaced with the drug trade. That becomes drugs for guns. Then the mass of young men who have filled the slums after leaving the countryside form their gangs.
The middle class and educated line up for visas and voila the 'Haitianization' of the entire region is complete.

Read about neo-liberalism and our region - we've been fucked properly by our own politicians, the multi-lateral lending agencies, and the US, British and French governments. Our own politicians and of course the grandest criminal bunch of all - the chambers of commerce- all went along for the ride.

I'd willingly die in a massive earthquake if I could be guaranteed that the entire establishment would die with me so that the future generations would have a chance, but everything I see so far suggests that another set of vultures are waiting in the wings to continue exploiting Caribbean people.

Meanwhile people like Bill have fond memories of his honeymoon in Haiti. It's been no fucking honeymoon for Caribbean people.

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