And I would Most Certainly close that Consulate and bring that man & staff home... No earthly reason that he needs to be there - in the back of the beyond... poor man...
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Police Killed and stations over run
Here is a story that I filed from Elias Pina -- about a zillion years ago
Although I doubt a lot has changed there
( I find it odd that I did not mention the beans? Which I remember quite clearly?)
www.ipsnews.net
Although I doubt a lot has changed there
( I find it odd that I did not mention the beans? Which I remember quite clearly?)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/HAITI: Border Market Embodies Inequalities
Elizabeth Eames Roebling*
One from Dajabon
Again - a zillion years ago
Again - a zillion years ago
A few from the southern border (which was my favorite!)
COFFEE! I forgot Coffee -- they buy Haitian beans ---So they will have to go down to get THOSE!!!
The latest US State Department report (that I found - there may be a more recent one?)
www.state.gov
Following Article IV consultations with the Government of Haiti in December 2019, the International Monetary Fund lowered its prediction for economic growth to -1.2 percent for FY 2019. On December 16, in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Haiti and requests for international assistance from the Government of Haiti and United Nations partners, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti declared a disaster due to the complex emergency in Haiti. In response, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance is providing one million dollars through the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to support the transportation of humanitarian commodities and staff for immediate relief efforts. Additionally, in November, USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) authorized the distribution of 2,000 metric tons of emergency food commodities through WFP to address the food needs of vulnerable households. In addition, in fiscal year 2019, FFP provided $20 million to support food assistance and resilience-building activities to mitigate and recover from shocks. While humanitarian assistance will help alleviate some urgent needs, it will not, and cannot, address the root causes of the current economic and political paralysis in Haiti.
U.S. Relations With Haiti - United States Department of State
More information about Haiti is available on the Haiti Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet. When Haiti is more prosperous, secure, and firmly rooted in democracy, Haitians and Americans benefit. U.S. policy toward this close...
www.state.gov
Following Article IV consultations with the Government of Haiti in December 2019, the International Monetary Fund lowered its prediction for economic growth to -1.2 percent for FY 2019. On December 16, in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Haiti and requests for international assistance from the Government of Haiti and United Nations partners, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti declared a disaster due to the complex emergency in Haiti. In response, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance is providing one million dollars through the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to support the transportation of humanitarian commodities and staff for immediate relief efforts. Additionally, in November, USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) authorized the distribution of 2,000 metric tons of emergency food commodities through WFP to address the food needs of vulnerable households. In addition, in fiscal year 2019, FFP provided $20 million to support food assistance and resilience-building activities to mitigate and recover from shocks. While humanitarian assistance will help alleviate some urgent needs, it will not, and cannot, address the root causes of the current economic and political paralysis in Haiti.
Who do you think is going to end up with this 2000 tons of food? It is an absolute waste of money. It will accomplish nothing.
Looks as if there is some substantial pressure on the Biden Administration to withdraw its support for the idea of elections...http://www.ijdh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Meeks-Letter.pdf
Well - unless there is support of the agricultural sector in Haiti, no amount of food aid is ever going to help. Haiti was food sufficient back in the 70s -
Under the US blockade of Haiti during the military coup that ousted Aristide, the DR "dumped" eggs and poultry in the Haitian market (Dumped meaning that they sold it for less than production costs) - which collapsed the Haitian poultry/egg production that had been thriving. Before that - back in the 80s - there was the swine flu outbreak and Haitians were "ordered" (although who knows why they complied?) to slaughter all the creole pigs (Perhaps it was thought it could jump to humans? like the bird flu? or - well - say Bat flu?) - and then the US introduced/donated IOWA pigs - which - instead of eating tiny bits of whatever scraps were left over - devoured whatever was available - Many Haitians complaining that the pigs were eating them out of what little food that they had. Now, you can see the huge pigs on the streets of Port au Prince acting as Sanitation Engineers...
Then - as if things were not bad enough - as one of the criteria for the US assistance in returning Aristide to power - the US (Bill Clinton) insisted that they drop their 38% tariff on imported rice down to 3% - which collapsed the rice industry... So - as you can see - Haiti did not get to the state that it is in all by its lonesome.. Most of the farming was always in small plots - the land having been cut up into small parcels - under Petion, I believe- although Naked Snake knows more about that early history of Haiti than I do.
The richest men now in Haiti are - as my neighbor here points out - Not Haitians- at least they are not really considered that. Sure, he says - they may have been there since the 1800s but they came there from the Middle East - from Lebanon and Syria - and they understood BUSINESS. They do not, however - he said - have any feelings for the Haitian people. (One could counter that there are plenty of Haitians that have no feelings for the Haitian people, of course) ...
There is a large movement that supports local food production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaye_Peasant_Movement. It was quite astonishing to watch them organize a "descent from the hills" to blockade the port to prevent the arrival of a "gift" from Monsanto of genetically altered sterile seeds that would have meant that the peasants would've had to buy their seeds from Monsanto every year. Those seeds have caused the enormous damage in India - https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/07/seeds_of_suicid.html
The 2010 earthquake killed 1/5 of the nation's civil servants
Hurricane Sandy destroyed an estimated 70% of her agriculture
www.theatlantic.com
And now - We Have -- Well - Chaos
But don't say that this has been a constant downward spiral since 1805. It has not been.
Hurricane Sandy destroyed an estimated 70% of her agriculture
The Other Hurricane Sandy: The Storm's Impact in Haiti
The country's government has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of its second natural disaster in as many years.
www.theatlantic.com
And now - We Have -- Well - Chaos
But don't say that this has been a constant downward spiral since 1805. It has not been.
There is another really impressive Haitian operation in the north which collects milk from the local dairy farmers and turns it into yogurt -
Really Great Yogurt!
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Really Great Yogurt!
sorry - that link did not work - But here is a video -
And yes - the English subtitles do appear
And yes - the English subtitles do appear
WOW! I hope that all of you take the time to watch that video!
When I was at the binational fair up in Dajabon - in 2008, I guess - the project was only making yogurt - which was being sold all the way down to PauP. But - evidently with the huge input of $$ from Brazil - they were able to switch to producing shelf stable milk..!!!!
Those who have not seen the countryside of Haiti -
will perhaps be a bit stunned
by her beauty
It has been the norm rather than the exception, though, except for the rule of three presidents: Fabre Geffrard, Nissage Saget and Lysius Salomon. All the others were banditry that in a normal country would have never found their way to the presidential seat, not even by the norm of Latin America.
P. S. : Of course, Boyer's period was somewhat peaceful, but it was marked by terminal economic and social decline, because he didn't have the strenght, or the social support (not even among his own mulatto caste), to recover the country's economic potential to the levels previous to 1791.