"Rights Groups Assail U.S. for Withholding Aid to Haiti, Citing Political Motives"
"An array of human rights groups has strongly criticized the United States government, saying it withheld money meant to provide clean drinking water to Haiti as leverage for political change in the country.
What's new about this?
We do it all the time; just ask Sadda..., umm, just ask Iran right now!
The activists, in a report released Monday, called the delay of $54 million in international loans to the Haitian government “one of the most egregious examples of malfeasance by the United States in recent years.”
Aside from the invasions and torture!!!
The loans from the Inter-American Development Bank were intended to revamp the water and sanitation systems in Les Cayes and Port-de-Paix, two Haitian towns in dire need of the money to improve their infrastructure.
Not that I want Haitians to suffer; however, America HAS the SAME PROBLEMS!!!
Why is ALL OUR MONEY going OUT of this country to fix other people's problems -- problems most likely caused BY US?!?
Nearly 70 percent of Haitians lack regular and direct access to potable water, experts say. The lack of clean water contributes to intestinal parasites and amoebic dysentery.
The development bank, over which the United States Treasury Department holds significant influence, approved the loans in 1998. Although payments began to be made several years later, the water projects have yet to be started, the report said, “largely the result of aggressive attempts by the U.S. government to block the disbursement of these loans.”
Haiti’s own political turmoil and financial difficulties also contributed to the delays, the report acknowledged.
The report was prepared by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law; Partners in Health, a Boston-based health care provider that does work in Haiti and other impoverished countries; and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights.
Notice how they have to qualify a humanitarian report critical of the U.S., but war propaganda never needs to be so qualified?
The groups went to court to gain access to internal government correspondence saying why the United States sought to prevent the approved loans from reaching Haiti in the years after their approval....
The delays in disbursing the loans were linked by American officials to their concerns about the administration of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, whose first presidency was overthrown by a military coup in 1991 and whose return to power in 2001 was cut short three years later with the encouragement of the Bush administration...."
Oh my God!!!
The 1991 military coup was encouraged and supported by W's father, and the U.S. security forces in charge of protecting Aristide basically forced him on a plane at gunpoint!!!
The fucking MSM acts like we have FORGOTTEN so many things, the damn obfuscators and liars!!!
It was U.S. AGENTS in BOTH CASES that were BEHIND the COUPS!!!!
I give up on the lying War press!!!!
