Haiti-Plundrare
2024-03-13
Some critics claim that the Clintons and their friends exploited Haiti's post-earthquake recovery efforts for personal gain. Accusations range from misuse of relief funds to human and resource exploitation.
An earthquake devastated Haiti in January 2010, killing 160,000 people and displacing over 1.5 million more. Then-US Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten wrote a cable to the Hillary Clinton-headed State Department, declaring: "The gold rush is on!" Bill Clinton played a key role in fundraising through the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. A tiny part of the millions raised was spent on Haitians. A 2013 inquiry by the Government Accountability Office found that most of the money wasn't disbursed. Media investigations showed half-completed or botched projects, misuse of funds and spending on luxury hotels rather than housing. George Soros and his Economic Development Fund also joined the "gold rush" by providing "loans" to the impoverished nation. The Clintons launched a $400-million industrial park in Caracol to create 65,000 jobs within five years, but by 2015 only 5,500 were employed full-time. Haitian farmers were displaced, workers faced rights abuses, and the factory owner, a Clinton charity donor, invested in a start-up owned by Hillary's chief of staff. In April 2014, Haitian Attorneys Newton Louis St Juste and André Michel tried to take Bill Clinton to Haiti's Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes to shed light on the fate of the of IHRC funds, but to no avail. The total amounted to $13.5 billion in donations and pledges from donor nations and private charities. But that failed to lift Haiti from disaster and poverty.Visa ditt stöd till det informationsarbete Carl genomför
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