Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Have you all seen this nonsense? [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)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.