Haiti: Wikileaks Cables reveal US involvement in suppression of min. wage, elite’s use police as private army
source: http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/06/haiti-wikileaks-cables-reveal-us.html
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The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Haïti Liberté, have joined forces to review 1,918 classified diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks that detail how the US government along with US companies including Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s urged the Haitian government not to raise the minimum wage in one of the world's poorest countries.
The cables also show how the countries wealthiest residents used the police force as their own personal army during the US backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, and how the US, the EU and the UN supported Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections, even though they knew Haiti’s largest opposition party, Lavalas, the party of Aristide was excluded from the election. Amy Goodman with Democracy Now! spoke with the reports’ authors, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin and Haïti Liberté editor, Kim Ives.Watch the interview below:
Read full article and watch the interview here:
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/06/haiti-wikileaks-cables-reveal-us.html
The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Haïti Liberté, have joined forces to review 1,918 classified diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks that detail how the US government along with US companies including Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s urged the Haitian government not to raise the minimum wage in one of the world's poorest countries.
The cables also show how the countries wealthiest residents used the police force as their own personal army during the US backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, and how the US, the EU and the UN supported Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections, even though they knew Haiti’s largest opposition party, Lavalas, the party of Aristide was excluded from the election. Amy Goodman with Democracy Now! spoke with the reports’ authors, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin and Haïti Liberté editor, Kim Ives.Watch the interview below:
Read full article and watch the interview here:
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/06/haiti-wikileaks-cables-reveal-us.html
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Damn Wkikleaks for showing that Oligarchs are the same all over the world.
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