Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake, Where Did the Money Go?

January 13th, 2012

Via: Global Post:

Where those billions went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left a government-estimated figure of 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery.

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“In the end,” says Robert Fatton Jr., professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a son of and authority on contemporary Haiti, “if you read the reports — the UN Report and so on — you’ll see that actual Haitians got less than 1 percent of all the American money pledged.”

In other words, Fatton explained, “99 percent of [the US money spent] went back to the US military, the State Department, NGOs and contractors. The money was clearly intended for Haiti, but it ended up returning to the same place it came from.”

Research Credit: roaches

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2 Responses to “Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake, Where Did the Money Go?”

  1. Zuma says:
    January 13, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    http://thehaitianblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/sean-penn-in-haiti-ngos-not-spending.html

    …for all that the worthy Sean Penn said here -still pertinent today of course -a comment on this blog page caught my eye:

    http://thehaitianblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/sean-penn-in-haiti-ngos-not-spending.html?showComment=1273617271206#c7179859654932969184

    Their priorities are to build prisons to house the restless, sick, homeless and hungry Haitians “Canada has contributed $4.4 million to the International Organization for Migration for the construction of the Croix-des-Bouquets prison… Minister Cannon visited Jacmel and Léogâne, as well as Croix-des-Bouquets, where the prison is nearing completion.”

    http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-communiques/2010/155.aspx?lang=eng

  2. Eileen says:
    January 14, 2012 at 5:15 am

    I thought to myself, why does the topic of this story stink?
    Well, I guess one year ago I posted a comment on this site. I’m not happy to be reminded that nothing has changed. Except that maybe I don’t write such long comments 🙂
    https://cryptogon.com/?p=19884

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