It caused thick, on France Inter, this morning ...
The fact is quite exceptional: March 10, before the U.S. Senate.
Bill Clinton, came to apologize.
Not the Americans.
The former president came to apologize to Haitians.
Bill Clinton, now special envoy of the United Nations in Haiti
admitted he was wrong when, in the 90s, he had forced the Haitian authorities to lift trade barriers on U.S. agricultural products. In
name of liberalism imbued with its values, the gesture was simply precipitated a Haitian agriculture already in bad shape towards the abyss. The most dramatic example: rice, the staple food of Haiti.
80% of the quantities consumed are imported from the United States because U.S. rice, hypersubventionné, sometimes cheaper than local production!
The situation could persist for some time.
But the earthquake of 12 January, and the influx of emergency food aid have exacerbated this situation.
The disaster has rejected to the countryside more than one million people who fled the devastation of Port au Prince.
The problem is that even in the country today, the food shortage.
The disaster can it be an opportunity for local farmers, will we finally be concerned about the Haitian countryside?
Haiti: land cruel ...
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