Will Haiti ever enter the 21st century?

In other instances parents really dont endorse education. So all I can say is that there is no single answer.

There is a single answer. Govt must get out of the racial preference racket and let the chips fall where they may. I'm sick of this preposterous conspiracy theory that whites are holding down blacks and so blacks "deserve" special treatment.
 
In other instances parents really dont endorse education. So all I can say is that there is no single answer.

There is a single answer. Govt must get out of the racial preference racket and let the chips fall where they may. I'm sick of this preposterous conspiracy theory that whites are holding down blacks and so blacks "deserve" special treatment.

Blacks need to stop with the victim bullshit and start working harder.
 
2.More than 10% of Haitian children die before age five.

3.Eighty percent of Haitians live under the poverty line and 54% live in abject poverty. The average per capita income in Haiti is $480 a year, compared to $33,550 in the United States.

4.Because of both violence and AIDS, Haiti has the highest percentage of orphans of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Before the 2010 earthquake, the United Nations estimated there were 430,000 orphans.

5.Nearly 1.5 million people left Haiti in the early 1990s.

6.A typical worker in Haiti makes only $2.75 a day. Because jobs are so scarce (approximately 70% do not have regular jobs), those who do have jobs are afraid to speak out against unfair labor practices.

7.Only 53% of Haitians can read and write.

20.Only about 10% of all Haitian children enrolled in elementary school go on to a high school.

35.Haiti is one of the least developed yet most densely populated countries in the Western Hemisphere. Its population density is 747 people per square mile (295 per sq. km.).c Comparable in size to Haiti, Vermont’s population density is 65.8 people per square mile (25.9 sq.km.).k The United States' is 79.55 people per square miles (30.71 sq. km.).

49.In Haiti, there is one hospital bed for every 10,000 inhabitants. There are only about eight doctors and 10 nurses for every 100,000 inhabitants.

50.The life expectancy for Haiti is low: 50 years for men and 53 years for women.

51.Haitians have the lowest caloric intake in the Americas, which has led to chronic and often fatal diseases.d An estimated 25-40% of children under five suffer chronic malnutrition.

52.Anemia affects 59% of Haitian children between the ages of six months and five years.

87.Rape in Haiti has long been a problem and is often used as a political weapon. After the 2010 earthquake, some men handing out coupons for food distribution would demand sexual favors.


88 Little Known Facts about Haiti


-In the last decade there has been little formal job creation.

-It has consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world on the Corruption Perceptions Index.

-Foreign aid makes up approximately 40% of the government’s budget. The largest donor is the U.S. followed by Canada and the European Union.

-Nearly two thirds of the Haitian population is illiterate.


FAST FACTS: Haiti — A Nation Of Poverty « CBS Miami


This is your typical black nation!
Most black nations are controlled by corrupt governments and sadistic criminals of which Haiti is one of the worst.

Sending money to Haiti only serves to enable the criminals who steal the bulk of the foreign aide and ration the meager remains to the masses.

Let the people get hungry and hopefully their empty stomachs will inspire them to make better decisions come election day.
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

So you resort to a threat of physical violence, with one person outnumbered? Impressive argument here.
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

So you resort to a threat of physical violence, with one person outnumbered? Impressive argument here.

I swear, Liberals think afros are bigger pieces of shit than I do!
 
Irish tycoon bringin' technology jobs to Haiti...
:clap2:
Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti
Sun, Jan 20, 2013 - Denis O’Brien sees Haiti as an entrepreneurial diamond in the rough, which he aims to polish by investing in local businesses and developing infrastructure
When Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien set about building a cellphone company in Haiti — the western hemisphere’s poorest country — there was no shortage of skeptics. Six years later, O’Brien’s company, Digicel, is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half of the population. It is a rare beacon of entrepreneurship in a country still struggling to rebuild after the 2010 earthquake. O’Brien’s ambitious plans for Digicel are part of his bullish vision for Haiti, which stands in sharp contrast to the usually gloomy forecasts for a nation crippled by perpetual political turmoil and natural disasters.

Promotion of homegrown entrepreneurship is rare in Haiti, where the government and banks have done little to stimulate investment and a small business elite has profited from import monopolies that stifle local production. On a typically whirlwind visit shortly before Christmas, O’Brien, 54, flew into Haiti from New York on his corporate jet for a monthly Digicel board meeting. He then hosted a gala celebrating Digicel’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year,’ a televised event he imported from Ireland to inspire small businesses. Close to 2m tall with white hair and ruddy cheeks, O’Brien is easy to spot among the crowd of mostly local business people and dignitaries, including Haitian President Michel Martelly. “Haiti needs more people like you,” Martelly said. “If it wasn’t for Denis, we’d all be sitting here alone.”

The Digicel Group is a privately-held company founded by O’Brien in 2001 and headquartered in Jamaica, with 13 million customers in 31 emerging markets, mostly in the Caribbean and Pacific regions. O’Brien holds 94 percent of Digicel’s shares and made Forbes magazine’s billionaires list last year at No. 205 with a net worth of US$5 billion. He models himself on Sudanese-born British billionaire Mo Ibrahim, the founder of Africa-wide cellphone network Celtel, and India-based Sunil Mittal, the founder of Bharti Airtel. Ibrahim sold Celtel in 2005 for US$3.4 billion and now runs the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, while Mittal also runs his own foundation. “They proved the concept that you can have people with very little disposable income in real terms, but who want a phone and they’ll pay you for it and you can afford to build up quite a large network,” O’Brien told reporters.

Digicel is now looking to enter Myanmar, a country of about 60 million people that has one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in the world. Only 3 percent of Myanmar’s population owned a phone in 2011, World Bank data show. Digicel says it had revenue of about US$2.5 billion in the year ending on March last year, with Haiti leading the way by generating US$439 million. Digicel’s 2006 launch in Haiti was a rare example of foreign investment in a country more used to depending on foreign aid. Two existing cellphone companies which offered spotty, more expensive services were quickly overtaken as Digicel invested in a national infrastructure and offered handsets for as little as US$7 with low rates for its mostly pre-paid customer base. “Denis revolutionized the communications sector. Before, cellphones were a luxury and now they are a must,” Haitian Minister of Tourism Stephanie Villedrouin said. O’Brien’s investments in Haiti go far beyond telephony.

More Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti - Taipei Times
 
Irish tycoon bringin' technology jobs to Haiti...
:clap2:
Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti
Sun, Jan 20, 2013 - Denis O’Brien sees Haiti as an entrepreneurial diamond in the rough, which he aims to polish by investing in local businesses and developing infrastructure
When Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien set about building a cellphone company in Haiti — the western hemisphere’s poorest country — there was no shortage of skeptics. Six years later, O’Brien’s company, Digicel, is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half of the population. It is a rare beacon of entrepreneurship in a country still struggling to rebuild after the 2010 earthquake. O’Brien’s ambitious plans for Digicel are part of his bullish vision for Haiti, which stands in sharp contrast to the usually gloomy forecasts for a nation crippled by perpetual political turmoil and natural disasters.

Promotion of homegrown entrepreneurship is rare in Haiti, where the government and banks have done little to stimulate investment and a small business elite has profited from import monopolies that stifle local production. On a typically whirlwind visit shortly before Christmas, O’Brien, 54, flew into Haiti from New York on his corporate jet for a monthly Digicel board meeting. He then hosted a gala celebrating Digicel’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year,’ a televised event he imported from Ireland to inspire small businesses. Close to 2m tall with white hair and ruddy cheeks, O’Brien is easy to spot among the crowd of mostly local business people and dignitaries, including Haitian President Michel Martelly. “Haiti needs more people like you,” Martelly said. “If it wasn’t for Denis, we’d all be sitting here alone.”

The Digicel Group is a privately-held company founded by O’Brien in 2001 and headquartered in Jamaica, with 13 million customers in 31 emerging markets, mostly in the Caribbean and Pacific regions. O’Brien holds 94 percent of Digicel’s shares and made Forbes magazine’s billionaires list last year at No. 205 with a net worth of US$5 billion. He models himself on Sudanese-born British billionaire Mo Ibrahim, the founder of Africa-wide cellphone network Celtel, and India-based Sunil Mittal, the founder of Bharti Airtel. Ibrahim sold Celtel in 2005 for US$3.4 billion and now runs the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, while Mittal also runs his own foundation. “They proved the concept that you can have people with very little disposable income in real terms, but who want a phone and they’ll pay you for it and you can afford to build up quite a large network,” O’Brien told reporters.

Digicel is now looking to enter Myanmar, a country of about 60 million people that has one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in the world. Only 3 percent of Myanmar’s population owned a phone in 2011, World Bank data show. Digicel says it had revenue of about US$2.5 billion in the year ending on March last year, with Haiti leading the way by generating US$439 million. Digicel’s 2006 launch in Haiti was a rare example of foreign investment in a country more used to depending on foreign aid. Two existing cellphone companies which offered spotty, more expensive services were quickly overtaken as Digicel invested in a national infrastructure and offered handsets for as little as US$7 with low rates for its mostly pre-paid customer base. “Denis revolutionized the communications sector. Before, cellphones were a luxury and now they are a must,” Haitian Minister of Tourism Stephanie Villedrouin said. O’Brien’s investments in Haiti go far beyond telephony.

More Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti - Taipei Times

Funny,

Always the whitey bringing the jobs:eusa_shhh: Where are the blacks organizing corperations in Haiti?
 
Irish tycoon bringin' technology jobs to Haiti...
:clap2:
Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti
Sun, Jan 20, 2013 - Denis O’Brien sees Haiti as an entrepreneurial diamond in the rough, which he aims to polish by investing in local businesses and developing infrastructure
When Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien set about building a cellphone company in Haiti — the western hemisphere’s poorest country — there was no shortage of skeptics. Six years later, O’Brien’s company, Digicel, is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half of the population. It is a rare beacon of entrepreneurship in a country still struggling to rebuild after the 2010 earthquake. O’Brien’s ambitious plans for Digicel are part of his bullish vision for Haiti, which stands in sharp contrast to the usually gloomy forecasts for a nation crippled by perpetual political turmoil and natural disasters.

Promotion of homegrown entrepreneurship is rare in Haiti, where the government and banks have done little to stimulate investment and a small business elite has profited from import monopolies that stifle local production. On a typically whirlwind visit shortly before Christmas, O’Brien, 54, flew into Haiti from New York on his corporate jet for a monthly Digicel board meeting. He then hosted a gala celebrating Digicel’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year,’ a televised event he imported from Ireland to inspire small businesses. Close to 2m tall with white hair and ruddy cheeks, O’Brien is easy to spot among the crowd of mostly local business people and dignitaries, including Haitian President Michel Martelly. “Haiti needs more people like you,” Martelly said. “If it wasn’t for Denis, we’d all be sitting here alone.”

The Digicel Group is a privately-held company founded by O’Brien in 2001 and headquartered in Jamaica, with 13 million customers in 31 emerging markets, mostly in the Caribbean and Pacific regions. O’Brien holds 94 percent of Digicel’s shares and made Forbes magazine’s billionaires list last year at No. 205 with a net worth of US$5 billion. He models himself on Sudanese-born British billionaire Mo Ibrahim, the founder of Africa-wide cellphone network Celtel, and India-based Sunil Mittal, the founder of Bharti Airtel. Ibrahim sold Celtel in 2005 for US$3.4 billion and now runs the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, while Mittal also runs his own foundation. “They proved the concept that you can have people with very little disposable income in real terms, but who want a phone and they’ll pay you for it and you can afford to build up quite a large network,” O’Brien told reporters.

Digicel is now looking to enter Myanmar, a country of about 60 million people that has one of the lowest mobile penetration rates in the world. Only 3 percent of Myanmar’s population owned a phone in 2011, World Bank data show. Digicel says it had revenue of about US$2.5 billion in the year ending on March last year, with Haiti leading the way by generating US$439 million. Digicel’s 2006 launch in Haiti was a rare example of foreign investment in a country more used to depending on foreign aid. Two existing cellphone companies which offered spotty, more expensive services were quickly overtaken as Digicel invested in a national infrastructure and offered handsets for as little as US$7 with low rates for its mostly pre-paid customer base. “Denis revolutionized the communications sector. Before, cellphones were a luxury and now they are a must,” Haitian Minister of Tourism Stephanie Villedrouin said. O’Brien’s investments in Haiti go far beyond telephony.

More Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti - Taipei Times

Funny,

Always the whitey bringing the jobs:eusa_shhh: Where are the blacks organizing corperations in Haiti?
wow. Its obvious you don`t give a damn what goes on in Haiti or even the U.S.:doubt:
The only thing that makes you happy is non-whites being considered stupid. Yeah they're educations pretty bad in Haiti, yet the only thing going on in your head is "what a bunch of third-world losers". I`d like them to succceed but would rather focus on the many problems here.
 
I was good friends with a brother of a Hatian vice president from years past - for a long time. He died a couple of years ago in Haiti. The top officials over their are like the mafia. They are as cutthroat as they come - they don't care about the people.

Voodoo is responsible for much of the ignorance, and stupidity over there, and it's failure. Haiti will remain in the third world for our lifetiime. It's inhabitants are ill equipped to trancend their situation - any money dumped into it will only benefit a few. It should be left to it's own resolve! Maybe the other black run countries will assit her :confused:
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

This is not a case of "having no balls"' . The howlie who started this thread has no idea of the economics that are still at work in Haiti. And is most likely way too stupid to understand.

His agenda, which I saw back in the 90's on a similar race relations board is to selectively pull stories off of the Internet, put them out as bait, and ignore parts of the underlying dirty truth in these stories.

Before getting upset with these hillbillies, I would keep it in perspective that most of them posting this stuff, do it simply to get angry reactions.




ADAM CLARK ESTES 10,113 ViewsJUN 7, 2011
In the wake of this year's many disasters, the flow of bad news coming out Haiti has slowed to a trickle. Last week actually brought some good news that the 2010 quake's death toll might actually be much lower than reported. And then WikiLeaks swoops in with with 1,918 documents from a seven-year period starting 10 months before the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and ending six weeks after the January 12, 2010 earthquake. In partnership with WikiLeaks, The Nation and the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté are publishing a series of stories that so far*highlight how America has been micromanaging and manhandling the Haitian government into aligning their policies with U.S. interests. It is, of course, not news that the United States bullies allies into doing what she wants, but the first couple of scoops are worth itemizing.

America Used Haiti as a Pawn in an Oil War Against Venezuela

René Préval took power after Aristide's ousting and immediately visited the United States to bolster confidence in the two nations' diplomatic relations. According to*a March 26, 2006 cable written by*U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson,*Préval wanted "to bury once and for all the suspicion in Haiti that the United States is wary of him," wary because of Préval's ties to Cuba and Venezuela. Sanderson also said that Préval "stressed to the Embassy that he will manage relations with Cuba and Venezuela solely for the benefit of the Haitian people, and not based on any ideological affinity toward those governments."*But American behavior behind the scenes would show how "wary" may have been too gentle a word.

Préval quickly dashed his own hopes for a strong relationship with his northern allies by negotiating a deal with the Venezuelan-based oil alliance PetroCaribe. Recognizing how the deal made sense both for Haiti's strapped budget and poverty-stricken people--the Haitian government "would save USD 100 million per year from the delayed payments" by American embassy estimates--the*United States stonewalled the deal for years to come. American officials apparently helped to enlist Chevron and ExxonMobil, the only U.S. oil companies operating in Haiti, to block their shipments and refuse to transport PetroCaribe oil, a necessary requirement for Haiti to sign the deal. Despite the American ambassador's recognizing Haiti's lack of interest in anti-American politics--"At no time has Preval given any indication that he is interested in associating Haiti with Chavez’s broader ‘revolutionary agenda,'" she wrote in one cable--Sanderson suggested that the U.S. "convey our discontent with Preval's actions at the highest possible level when he next visits Washington" after*Préval*visited Venezuela to negotiate a related energy deal that would bring electricity to more homes and save the Haitian people millions.

Chevron ultimately signed the PetroCaribe deal in early 2008, despite U.S. protests, but only after two years of negotiations potentially watered down the benefit to Haiti. However, as The Nation points out, "The extraordinary story that the Haiti WikiLeaks cables tell of the US Embassy’s campaign against PetroCaribe--which provides such obvious benefits for Haiti--lays bare the real priorities of 'Haiti's most important and reliable bi-lateral partner,' as Sanderson calls the United States."

America Wanted to Keep Haiti's Minimum Wage at 24¢ an Hour

Préval's campaign to raise the nation's minimum wage caught the attention of the Obama administration. The bump 37¢ bump seems small by American standards, but considering it would raise wages by 150 percent--from 24¢ and hour to 61¢ an hour--the new rule stood to dramatically affect the lives of poor Haitians. However, it would also dramatically affect the bottom line of American companies,*like Hanes and Levi Strauss who contracted labor in Haiti to sew their clothes. The companies insisted on capping the wage increase at 7¢ an hour, and the U.S. ambassador pressured Préval into a $3 per day wage for textile workers, $2 less than the original $5 a day that Préval had wanted. The Nation's report* on the negotiations show continued disapproval with the politics of the whole thing:

Still the US Embassy wasn’t pleased. A deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and underpaid masses.”
Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review did a little bit of math to put these figures into perspective. The proposed $5 per day falls well short of The Nation's estimated $12.50 per day needed for a Haitian family of three to make ends meet. But how dramatically will the even lower $3 a day affect the American companies with a stake in the matter?

Zooming in on specific companies helps clarify this even more. As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made*$211 million*on $4.3 billion in sales last year, and presumably it would pass on at least some of its higher labor costs to consumers.
Chittum notes that Hanes's CEO Richard Noll could cover the losses with just one sixth of his $10 million compensation package. That makes American Apparel and their no sweatshop policy look angelic, sex-crazed CEO Dov Charney and all.

*The Nation pulled their report on the minimum wage dispute after publishing it briefly in accordance with a publishing schedule agreement with*Haïti Liberté.*CJR*snatched a summary while it was briefly online and*The Nation*will publish its full report tomorrow.*

Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.
Adam Clark Estes

Sources
WikiLeaks Haiti: The PetroCaribe Files, Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, The NationWikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3/Day, The NationA Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down, Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review
Topics: Haiti, WikiLeaks, State Department, Renee Preval
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

This is not a case of "having no balls"' . The howlie who started this thread has no idea of the economics that are still at work in Haiti. And is most likely way too stupid to understand.

His agenda, which I saw back in the 90's on a similar race relations board is to selectively pull stories off of the Internet, put them out as bait, and ignore parts of the underlying dirty truth in these stories.

Before getting upset with these hillbillies, I would keep it in perspective that most of them posting this stuff, do it simply to get angry reactions.




ADAM CLARK ESTES 10,113 ViewsJUN 7, 2011
In the wake of this year's many disasters, the flow of bad news coming out Haiti has slowed to a trickle. Last week actually brought some good news that the 2010 quake's death toll might actually be much lower than reported. And then WikiLeaks swoops in with with 1,918 documents from a seven-year period starting 10 months before the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and ending six weeks after the January 12, 2010 earthquake. In partnership with WikiLeaks, The Nation and the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté are publishing a series of stories that so far*highlight how America has been micromanaging and manhandling the Haitian government into aligning their policies with U.S. interests. It is, of course, not news that the United States bullies allies into doing what she wants, but the first couple of scoops are worth itemizing.

America Used Haiti as a Pawn in an Oil War Against Venezuela

René Préval took power after Aristide's ousting and immediately visited the United States to bolster confidence in the two nations' diplomatic relations. According to*a March 26, 2006 cable written by*U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson,*Préval wanted "to bury once and for all the suspicion in Haiti that the United States is wary of him," wary because of Préval's ties to Cuba and Venezuela. Sanderson also said that Préval "stressed to the Embassy that he will manage relations with Cuba and Venezuela solely for the benefit of the Haitian people, and not based on any ideological affinity toward those governments."*But American behavior behind the scenes would show how "wary" may have been too gentle a word.

Préval quickly dashed his own hopes for a strong relationship with his northern allies by negotiating a deal with the Venezuelan-based oil alliance PetroCaribe. Recognizing how the deal made sense both for Haiti's strapped budget and poverty-stricken people--the Haitian government "would save USD 100 million per year from the delayed payments" by American embassy estimates--the*United States stonewalled the deal for years to come. American officials apparently helped to enlist Chevron and ExxonMobil, the only U.S. oil companies operating in Haiti, to block their shipments and refuse to transport PetroCaribe oil, a necessary requirement for Haiti to sign the deal. Despite the American ambassador's recognizing Haiti's lack of interest in anti-American politics--"At no time has Preval given any indication that he is interested in associating Haiti with Chavez’s broader ‘revolutionary agenda,'" she wrote in one cable--Sanderson suggested that the U.S. "convey our discontent with Preval's actions at the highest possible level when he next visits Washington" after*Préval*visited Venezuela to negotiate a related energy deal that would bring electricity to more homes and save the Haitian people millions.

Chevron ultimately signed the PetroCaribe deal in early 2008, despite U.S. protests, but only after two years of negotiations potentially watered down the benefit to Haiti. However, as The Nation points out, "The extraordinary story that the Haiti WikiLeaks cables tell of the US Embassy’s campaign against PetroCaribe--which provides such obvious benefits for Haiti--lays bare the real priorities of 'Haiti's most important and reliable bi-lateral partner,' as Sanderson calls the United States."

America Wanted to Keep Haiti's Minimum Wage at 24¢ an Hour

Préval's campaign to raise the nation's minimum wage caught the attention of the Obama administration. The bump 37¢ bump seems small by American standards, but considering it would raise wages by 150 percent--from 24¢ and hour to 61¢ an hour--the new rule stood to dramatically affect the lives of poor Haitians. However, it would also dramatically affect the bottom line of American companies,*like Hanes and Levi Strauss who contracted labor in Haiti to sew their clothes. The companies insisted on capping the wage increase at 7¢ an hour, and the U.S. ambassador pressured Préval into a $3 per day wage for textile workers, $2 less than the original $5 a day that Préval had wanted. The Nation's report* on the negotiations show continued disapproval with the politics of the whole thing:

Still the US Embassy wasn’t pleased. A deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and underpaid masses.”
Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review did a little bit of math to put these figures into perspective. The proposed $5 per day falls well short of The Nation's estimated $12.50 per day needed for a Haitian family of three to make ends meet. But how dramatically will the even lower $3 a day affect the American companies with a stake in the matter?

Zooming in on specific companies helps clarify this even more. As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made*$211 million*on $4.3 billion in sales last year, and presumably it would pass on at least some of its higher labor costs to consumers.
Chittum notes that Hanes's CEO Richard Noll could cover the losses with just one sixth of his $10 million compensation package. That makes American Apparel and their no sweatshop policy look angelic, sex-crazed CEO Dov Charney and all.

*The Nation pulled their report on the minimum wage dispute after publishing it briefly in accordance with a publishing schedule agreement with*Haïti Liberté.*CJR*snatched a summary while it was briefly online and*The Nation*will publish its full report tomorrow.*

Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire.
Adam Clark Estes

Sources
WikiLeaks Haiti: The PetroCaribe Files, Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, The NationWikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3/Day, The NationA Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down, Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review
Topics: Haiti, WikiLeaks, State Department, Renee Preval
So it is white America that is responsible. Can't be that blacks cannot prosper a country :eusa_whistle:
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

This is not a case of "having no balls"' . The howlie who started this thread has no idea of the economics that are still at work in Haiti. And is most likely way too stupid to understand.

His agenda, which I saw back in the 90's on a similar race relations board is to selectively pull stories off of the Internet, put them out as bait, and ignore parts of the underlying dirty truth in these stories.

Before getting upset with these hillbillies, I would keep it in perspective that most of them posting this stuff, do it simply to get angry reactions.




ADAM CLARK ESTES 10,113 ViewsJUN 7, 2011
In the wake of this year's many disasters, the flow of bad news coming out Haiti has slowed to a trickle. Last week actually brought some good news that the 2010 quake's death toll might actually be much lower than reported. And then WikiLeaks swoops in with with 1,918 documents from a seven-year period starting 10 months before the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and ending six weeks after the January 12, 2010 earthquake. In partnership with WikiLeaks, The Nation and the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté are publishing a series of stories that so far*highlight how America has been micromanaging and manhandling the Haitian government into aligning their policies with U.S. interests. It is, of course, not news that the United States bullies allies into doing what she wants, but the first couple of scoops are worth itemizing.

America Used Haiti as a Pawn in an Oil War Against Venezuela

René Préval took power after Aristide's ousting and immediately visited the United States to bolster confidence in the two nations' diplomatic relations. According to*a March 26, 2006 cable written by*U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson,*Préval wanted "to bury once and for all the suspicion in Haiti that the United States is wary of him," wary because of Préval's ties to Cuba and Venezuela. Sanderson also said that Préval "stressed to the Embassy that he will manage relations with Cuba and Venezuela solely for the benefit of the Haitian people, and not based on any ideological affinity toward those governments."*But American behavior behind the scenes would show how "wary" may have been too gentle a word.

Préval quickly dashed his own hopes for a strong relationship with his northern allies by negotiating a deal with the Venezuelan-based oil alliance PetroCaribe. Recognizing how the deal made sense both for Haiti's strapped budget and poverty-stricken people--the Haitian government "would save USD 100 million per year from the delayed payments" by American embassy estimates--the*United States stonewalled the deal for years to come. American officials apparently helped to enlist Chevron and ExxonMobil, the only U.S. oil companies operating in Haiti, to block their shipments and refuse to transport PetroCaribe oil, a necessary requirement for Haiti to sign the deal. Despite the American ambassador's recognizing Haiti's lack of interest in anti-American politics--"At no time has Preval given any indication that he is interested in associating Haiti with Chavez’s broader ‘revolutionary agenda,'" she wrote in one cable--Sanderson suggested that the U.S. "convey our discontent with Preval's actions at the highest possible level when he next visits Washington" after*Préval*visited Venezuela to negotiate a related energy deal that would bring electricity to more homes and save the Haitian people millions.

Chevron ultimately signed the PetroCaribe deal in early 2008, despite U.S. protests, but only after two years of negotiations potentially watered down the benefit to Haiti. However, as The Nation points out, "The extraordinary story that the Haiti WikiLeaks cables tell of the US Embassy’s campaign against PetroCaribe--which provides such obvious benefits for Haiti--lays bare the real priorities of 'Haiti's most important and reliable bi-lateral partner,' as Sanderson calls the United States."

America Wanted to Keep Haiti's Minimum Wage at 24¢ an Hour

Préval's campaign to raise the nation's minimum wage caught the attention of the Obama administration. The bump 37¢ bump seems small by American standards, but considering it would raise wages by 150 percent--from 24¢ and hour to 61¢ an hour--the new rule stood to dramatically affect the lives of poor Haitians. However, it would also dramatically affect the bottom line of American companies,*like Hanes and Levi Strauss who contracted labor in Haiti to sew their clothes. The companies insisted on capping the wage increase at 7¢ an hour, and the U.S. ambassador pressured Préval into a $3 per day wage for textile workers, $2 less than the original $5 a day that Préval had wanted. The Nation's report* on the negotiations show continued disapproval with the politics of the whole thing:

Still the US Embassy wasn’t pleased. A deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and underpaid masses.”
Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review did a little bit of math to put these figures into perspective. The proposed $5 per day falls well short of The Nation's estimated $12.50 per day needed for a Haitian family of three to make ends meet. But how dramatically will the even lower $3 a day affect the American companies with a stake in the matter?

Zooming in on specific companies helps clarify this even more. As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made*$211 million*on $4.3 billion in sales last year, and presumably it would pass on at least some of its higher labor costs to consumers.
Chittum notes that Hanes's CEO Richard Noll could cover the losses with just one sixth of his $10 million compensation package. That makes American Apparel and their no sweatshop policy look angelic, sex-crazed CEO Dov Charney and all.

*The Nation pulled their report on the minimum wage dispute after publishing it briefly in accordance with a publishing schedule agreement with*Haïti Liberté.*CJR*snatched a summary while it was briefly online and*The Nation*will publish its full report tomorrow.*

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Adam Clark Estes

Sources
WikiLeaks Haiti: The PetroCaribe Files, Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, The NationWikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3/Day, The NationA Pulled Scoop Shows U.S. Fought to Keep Haitian Wages Down, Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review
Topics: Haiti, WikiLeaks, State Department, Renee Preval
So it is white America that is responsible. Can't be that blacks cannot prosper a country :eusa_whistle:

Except that Nigeria is one of the Next Eleven.
 
I wonder how it feels to be white and scared, knowing that all what you say online you don't have the balls to actually say in public, or at least to a group of black men you know that would kick your ass?

So you resort to a threat of physical violence, with one person outnumbered? Impressive argument here.

I swear, Liberals think afros are bigger pieces of shit than I do!

Especially when they escape the plantation.
 
Irish tycoon bringin' technology jobs to Haiti...
:clap2:
Irish cellphone tycoon banks on helping create a smarter Haiti
Sun, Jan 20, 2013 - Denis O’Brien sees Haiti as an entrepreneurial diamond in the rough, which he aims to polish by investing in local businesses and developing infrastructure
And a year later, white liberals will accuse Denis O'Brian of paying slave wages and inhumane working conditions.

Followed by the labor unions wanting to organize the poor black victims of those evil white corporate oppressors.
 

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