Nascent Union Charges Reprisals by Textile Factory Owners

[Keith Millea]

Haiti has already been identified as a human laboratory for Big Pharma to test experimental drugs on a population denied a voice.

Haiti is clearly also a model for the next incarnation of Robber Baron capitalism.

Economic Shock Therapy,as applied in the developing world, is now being implemented in Europe, whilst an even more severe version is being pioneered on the masses of the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

And Billy Boy is the "man with the plan"..........

Change, or More of the Same?Last year, at a signing ceremony for the agreement to build the industrial park in northern Haiti, U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti and former U.S. president Bill Clinton spoke to IPS.

Asked how the development of Haiti's textile industry today would be different from the 1980s, when the industry was at its height, he said the plan has changed.

"I think that what happened with Haiti in the 1980s is the same thing that happened, in a way, when the Marines were here from 1915 to 1933," Clinton said. "Haiti was rocking along, nobody ever did anything to change the underlying reality of Haiti, to increase their capacity to govern themselves.

"And the same thing happened when they had a manufacturing boom in the 80s - it couldn't be sustained because nothing ever happened inside Haiti. So this time what we're trying to do is build the capacity of Haitians to govern themselves and also get back their natural resource space, their ability to grow their own food, their ability to grow trees again, to restore the land and their whole self-governance.

"It's a very different thing now. This is a piece of a much broader strategy," he said, before leaving the room.

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