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Haiti
Haiti: Where did the money go? The world pledged some $12 billion
after the earthquake. Two years later, little has been used to actually
rebuild
Wikileaks: The Haiti Files with Kim Ives in Victoria Straight from
the U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti, you will hear how the U.S.
conspires to keep Haiti poor, who is running Haiti, and what happened to
the earthquake relief effort.
WikiLeaks Reveal: U.S. and UN Supervised Integration of Coup-Making
Ex-Soldiers into Haiti's Police The U.S. Embassy in Haiti
worked closely with factory owners contracted by Levi's, Hanes, and
Fruit of the Loom to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase
for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest paid in the hemisphere,
according to secret State Department cables.
Washington backed famous brand-name contractors in fight against
Haiti's minimum wage increase The factory owners refused
to pay 62 cents an hour, or $5 per eighthour day, as a measure
unanimously passed by the Haitian parliament in June 2009 would have
mandated. Behind the scenes, the factory owners had the vigorous
backing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and
the U.S. Embassy, show secret U.S. Embassy cables provided to Haïti
Liberté by the transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks.According to a
2008 Worker Rights Consortium study, a working class family of one
working member and two dependents needed a daily wage of at least
550 Haitian gourdes, or $13.75, to meet normal living expenses.
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