The Haitian premier is appealing for help for what he terms a "colossal reconstruction" effort. If there are no seismic building codes to follow, what kind of "reconstruction" is going to happen there, and when the next major earthquake hits the island, will the same thing happen all over again? Will Haiti's government willingly get their act together on this?
Who is going to oversee "reconstruction efforts", who will be paying for them, and who will eventually benefit? Will Haiti, as a result of what Naomi Klein has described in her excellent book "The Shock Doctrine", (how disasters, both natural and manmade are capitalized upon by special interests) become a Caribbean tropical haven catering for tourists and 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes for the wealthy; where the locals lose their land and property and end up working for slave wages for multinational corporations?
As in, the usual way things work these days?
Oh don't worry about that. The cleptocracy is depended on the "development" teat which keeps the people working for slave wages IF they can find a job. It guarantees that masses of rich people will NEVER look to Haiti as a paradise to developed and exploited. It's a far better system brought to them by the likes of the UN and Jeffery Sachs types.
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The Haitian premier is appealing for help for what he terms a "colossal reconstruction" effort. If there are no seismic building codes to follow, what kind of "reconstruction" is going to happen there, and when the next major earthquake hits the island, will the same thing happen all over again? Will Haiti's government willingly get their act together on this?
Who is going to oversee "reconstruction efforts", who will be paying for them, and who will eventually benefit? Will Haiti, as a result of what Naomi Klein has described in her excellent book "The Shock Doctrine", (how disasters, both natural and manmade are capitalized upon by special interests) become a Caribbean tropical haven catering for tourists and 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes for the wealthy; where the locals lose their land and property and end up working for slave wages for multinational corporations?
As in, the usual way things work these days?
Oh don't worry about that. The cleptocracy is depended on the "development" teat which keeps the people working for slave wages IF they can find a job. It guarantees that masses of rich people will NEVER look to Haiti as a paradise to developed and exploited. It's a far better system brought to them by the likes of the UN and Jeffery Sachs types.