Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious Debt?


by Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet
CADTM (le Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde)
January 18, 2010


There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale. We have all shed tears and the media, as they bombard us with apocalyptic images, report on financial pledges generous States have made. We know that Haiti needs to be rebuilt, this country hard-hit by poverty and “its curseâ€