Is there oil in Haiti?

[seemslikeadream]

On July 19, the Institute of Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) released a 19-page report: “Human Rights Violations in Haiti: February-May 2004,” and on July 26, the IJDH issued an update paying particular attention to the direct human rights violations by the so-called “interim government” of Haiti. Another report, by the Haiti Accompaniment Project, corroborates and reinforces the findings of the IJDH. The reports are published at haitiaction.net.

Briefly, the various reports disclose that the interim government and its criminal satraps and accomplices have begun a second wave of repression against the political majority in Haiti - the Fanmi Lavalas (Lavalas Family) the movement supporting President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

The IJDH report documents in grisly detail the horror that is Haiti now. It corroborates earlier reports about massacres immediately following the overthrow of President Aristide.

“The director of the State Hospital Morgue in Port-au-Prince reported that the morgue had disposed of over 1,000 bodies in the month of March alone. Although some of these may have died of natural causes, in a normal month the morgue disposes of 100 cadavers. The director said that many of the 1,000 disposed bodies arrived with hands tied behind the back and bullet holes in the back of the head.
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http://www.sfbayview.com/090104/isthereoil090104.shtml


Aug. 14, on the anniversary of the start of the Haitian revolution in 1791, when revolutionary fervor is high in Haiti, 2,500 Lavalas demonstrators courageously took to the streets of Cap Haitien in a peaceful protest for the first time since the ouster of President Aristide on Feb. 29. Given the tremendous level of repression and killings of Lavalas supporters, it was a milestone event meant to test the response of the current de facto government and the Haitian police force under their control.
Photo: Haiti Information Project © HIP 2004

[libhill]

1. No oil

otherwise, the Bushistas would have 10 zillion troops there, to oust that thar e-vil dictator what hates us fer our freedoms. You taain't ah been payin' no 'ttention to W.

[Rockholm]

2. No Oil, No Compassion....

OH, and they are black. I see a pattern here folks.

[libhill]

3. True -

witness the mess in Darfur - no help at all forthcoming from the U.S. And I wouldn't hold my breath.

[fearnobush]

4. No oil, but Haiti is a perfect location to stage for the invasion of Cuba

and Venezuela.

[D-Notice]

11. Also a good drop-off for the CIA's drug runs...

[lapfog_1]

5. Here is an interesting article on the Haiti coup

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/hait-a05.shtml

but the main reason given in the article is the one I liked...
namely the Bushies didn't want more Haitian boat people
in Florida.

"The administration feared chaos in Haiti could lead to a mass exodus
of impoverished and terror-stricken Haitians that would destabilize
the Caribbean region as a whole. Their first concern was the impact
a refugee exodus would have on Florida, a key battleground in the
coming presidential elections."

However, Cuba and Spain are spending a lot of money drilling for
oil offshore from Cuba... who knows, maybe Haiti has some offshore
oil potential as well (But I couldn't find it on the web).

[lostnfound]

6. I hate Bush for what he did to Haiti most of all. nt

[AP]

7. They have the fuel of huge profits for The Gap: cheap labor.

It's a kind of oil.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Ding, ding, ding...

I think Dinsey has a finger in it, too.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

:kick:

[seemslikeadream]

10. Child Labour in Nigeria: a Battle for the Future

There is a wide variety of guess estimates as to the number of working children under 15 years of age, ranging from 200 to 400 million worldwide. Even if such estimates were to be regarded as realistic, more global totals do not provide insight into the various forms of the practice and the problems associated with child labour. According to ILO's Bureau of Statistics, there are at least 120 million children between the ages of five and 14 who are fully at work in developing countries alone.

In the just concluded 92nd session of the ILO in Geneva, Switzerland, report has it that about 700,000 children are found in domestic labour in Indonesia, 559,000 in Brazil, 250,000 in Haiti, 264,000 in Pakistan, 200,000 in Kenya and 100,000 in Sri Lanka. If those for whom work is a secondary activity were included, the total working children in this age group would be more than 250 million.

Lack of reliable data makes it difficult to know the problem and can be counter-productive when it comes to setting national priorities for urgent action. However, following experimental work in the early 1990s, the ILO has developed statistical survey methodologies to assist countries in the collecting and improving information base on child labour.

So far Child Labour Surveys based on recently developed methodologies by the ILO have been carried out in selected areas in several countries of the world, while child labour surveys are yet to have impact in Nigeria amongst other countries in the developing world. Child labour by definition refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially, morally dangerous and harmful to children.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200409020080.html

[yellowcanine]

12. Pinochet's Chile reprise: U.S. backed coup against leftist elected

president followed by right-wing killings of leftists with the complicity of the U.S. Thank you Colin Powell.

[bullimiami]

13. its the sweatshops stupid...

sweatshops, cheeeep labor and no rules combined with location.