earthmann

Want to understand Haiti?
I do. I don't yet. But here is the start. The Haitian situation so resembles many third-world, post globalization economic situations, I figured the IMF was involved somehow. Lo and behold.

""The IMF forced Haiti to open its market to imported, highly subsidized U.S. rice at the same time it prohibited Haiti from subsidizing its own farmers," declares the Web site of Global Exchange, one of the Third World advocacy groups organizing the Washington protests. 'Haitian farmers have been forced off their land to seek work in sweatshops, and people are poorer than ever.'- April 2000

Par for the course.