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Bill Clinton: Pushing Free Trade On Haiti Was A 'Mistake' That Contributed To Hunger
Bill Clinton: Pushing Free Trade On Haiti Was A 'Mistake' That Contributed To Hunger
By Susie Madrak | Crooks & Liars
As I've noted before, Haiti's earthquake recovery problems were exacerbated by the economic and trade policies pushed on them by the United States. Now Bill Clinton has admitted as much:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the developing world gets food.
Decades of inexpensive imports - especially rice from the U.S. - punctuated with abundant aid in various crises have destroyed local agriculture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to feed themselves.
While those policies have been criticized for years in aid worker circles, world leaders focused on fixing Haiti are admitting for the first time that loosening trade barriers has only exacerbated hunger in Haiti and elsewhere. Read more.
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Don't you love these class thugs, republicans, class wores, democrats, Obama and Clinton.......tied to class dogmas, free market terminology, class ideology.......and stubborn appeasement of class tyranny, imperial fascism.,......SIEG HEIL CLINTON, BUSH AND OBAMA.....YOUR ALL CLASS APPEASING CRIMINALS.
Susie Madrak, writing for a website called Crooks & Liars, should know better than to treat the Wa. Post article as reflective of only truth. Who, f.e., are the people in Haiti attending the speech by war and economic criminal, and racketeer, Bill Clinton? He's NOT speaking to the Haitians who are really suffering and likely wouldn't have the courage to face them, either.
Quoting from what Susie Madrak excerpted from the WP article, "They're led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton - now U.N. special envoy to Haiti - who publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice".
Clinton's apologies should never be taken at face value, for he's a hypocrite, liar, .... And from what I've read about what was criminally, hegemonically, ... done to Haiti by him and the U.S. during his administration, he did NOT only "encourage" Haiti "to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice". Instead, it was a criminally, ... imposed requirement.
Pres. GHW Bush ousted President Aristide after his first election, and, btw, is and remains an act of war of aggression, as well as hegemony, etc.
Pres. Clinton allowed President Aristide to return to his rightful position as President in Haiti, but only if President Aristide accepted the criminal, racketeering, ... requirements of the U.S. Clinton also imposed the criminal requirement that President Aristide couldn't continue for the number of years that he had been elected for; he could only serve what would've remained of those years if Pres. GHW Bush hadn't criminally commanded the removal of President Aristide.
Clinton imposed the extremely criminal and genocidal economic strangulation through the instrument of the aristocratic, plutocratic, plutogarchic, ... fiends of the U.S. and its allies, that is, the IMF; and, maybe also the WB, World Bank.
He didn't encourage anything. He imposed.
And anyone who thinks he is at all respectably honest really needs to get their minds checked out with a good psychologist or psychiatrist, if there are any who can be found. Most would dishonestly toe the line of the ruling elites in the U.S., instead of working as true psychologists and psychiatrists.
After all, they've mostly been dead silent, as if non-existent over the past ... what, nearly nine years, now.
There's a very common saying about the Wa. Post; that it's the favorite newspaper of the CIA.
I wonder, people who say that about the Wa. Post, are they talking about the ops branch of the CIA, or the analytical branch, or both?
Mike Corbeil