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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
6. As SOS. HRC collaborated w/Clinton Foundation to guarantee slave labor wages
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 10:37 AM
Apr 2016

The Clinton Foundation "facilitated" (i.e., grifted a healthy percentage off the top) millions for disaster relief following Haiti's earthquake, which left several hundred thousand homeless. But instead of facilitating housing, it facilitated building 4 industrial parks, a commercial harbor/port and a luxury hotel in an undamaged part of the island. The hotel was to provide suitable housing for corporate execs coming to the island to set up the manufacturing facilities, and counting on slave labor level wages of approximately $3.00 per day. Most of the promised manufacturing jobs never materialized, and some 200,000 Haitians remain either homeless or living in patched together hovels with no electricity, running water or sewage facilities.

As I posted earlier:
Thank god Clinton Foundation "facilitated" a $45 million luxury hotel in Haiti so potential corporate investors cough/boodsuckers looking to take advantage of cheap labor/cough could visit in comfort. Those damned ungrateful, greedy Haitians (do I need a sarcasm emoticon?) expected the Clinton Foundation to direct the "donations" cough/bribes/cough to replace housing destroyed by the earthquake. But that $45 million was used to build a 173 room hotel. That works out to $260,000 per room. Way to go, Clinton Foundation! ! ! Five star all the way for corporate investors & your next glittery gathering in Haiti for photo ops.

Once all of the carnage was assessed, more than 100,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people were left without homes and Haiti's government put the death toll at 316,000, according to ABC News.

Five years later, after billions of dollars of aid and donations, many are still living in abject poverty created by the earthquake. NBC News notes that while some $13 billion went to the country, more than "85,000 people still live in crude displacement camps and many more in deplorable conditions."


NBC News does note that while many of the roads destroyed by the earthquake have been repaired and some businesses have been rebuilt, very few people displaced by the massive quake have acquired permanent housing.



http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/01/_5_years_after_massive_earthquake_where_is_haiti_now.html


Two years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Haiti's capital, a deal brokered by former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation will add new lodging for travelers to Port-au-Prince -- in the form of a $45 million hotel.

With only about 500 operable hotel rooms, the city has limited space to house aid workers, potential investors and other visitors, according to a news release Monday by the future hotel's owner and its operator.

Caribbean cell phone provider Digicel will own the hotel, which will have 173 new rooms and create 175 new jobs. Marriott Hotels and Resorts will operate the hotel upon completion in 2014. Construction is set to begin in 2012.

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The USA has punished DetroitSocialist83 Apr 2016 #1
I knew about this in general Rebkeh Apr 2016 #7
Columbia Journalism Review and TheNation story links- URLS Baobab Apr 2016 #33
Well- since she wasn't doing any favors for any corporation who donated to her Foundation notadmblnd Apr 2016 #2
See Post 6 below re corporate quid pro quos in Haiti Divernan Apr 2016 #8
Way to go, Brownie! Oops, I mean SOS Clinton Divernan Apr 2016 #12
Ok...now I really feel sick to my stomach. SoapBox Apr 2016 #19
And when Bill and Hillary die someday, there are no TexasBushwhacker Apr 2016 #30
The more you dig into the actual history of the Clintons Else You Are Mad Apr 2016 #3
Yes, and many people don't give a damn noiretextatique Apr 2016 #4
Or Pope. SoapBox Apr 2016 #20
Yup noiretextatique Apr 2016 #37
But Bernie saying yup when he might meet the pope is more important. smfh nt retrowire Apr 2016 #5
As SOS. HRC collaborated w/Clinton Foundation to guarantee slave labor wages Divernan Apr 2016 #6
Charitable housing development for the poor as envisioned by the foundation Dragonfli Apr 2016 #13
This is sickening. Duval Apr 2016 #29
The show "Vice" DetroitSocialist83 Apr 2016 #9
I saw that. Duppers Apr 2016 #34
There have been OPs here I've seen on the Clintons' involvement after the Haiti earthquake appalachiablue Apr 2016 #10
SOS HRC presided over the $300 million failed park's opening in 2012 Divernan Apr 2016 #11
You need to fix your link, it needs to be html at the end, not htm (your link "page not found") Dragonfli Apr 2016 #14
See the gal who's back is to us in the center of this picture: Karma13612 Apr 2016 #16
Can't tell, my eyes are not as sharp as they were when I was younger /nt Dragonfli Apr 2016 #17
Looks like "B & H GLOBAL" /nt randomelement Apr 2016 #21
S&H Global Gwhittey Apr 2016 #23
thanks! yea, so S&H School/factory are tied into the CGI. there ya go! eom Karma13612 Apr 2016 #25
I don't know about S & H School.. What does S & H stand fore? 2banon Apr 2016 #39
Sorry; thanks; fixed it! Divernan Apr 2016 #18
Oh, no problem, it happens all the time to me, usually when I cut and past a link, sometimes I don't Dragonfli Apr 2016 #24
There is no aspect of Hillary Clinton's FlatBaroque Apr 2016 #15
Have you read the books by John Perkins? leftcoastmountains Apr 2016 #22
Everyone needs to read that book! bbgrunt Apr 2016 #26
He had quite a few things to say recently about Honduras and Haiti, and wage suppression. arcane1 Apr 2016 #28
excellent book. a real opening primer. Highly recommend read. 2banon Apr 2016 #38
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