by Ezili Dantò Gold Rush in Haiti: Good for whom? (See also Haiti’s Riches and December 21, 2012 update: Haiti Awards Gold, Copper Mining Permits ) ******************* Haiti ‘s water supply is ALREADY contaminated by foreign cholera feces, what will leaking cyanide, arsenic emissions, mine waste, Marine ecosystem destruction and open pit mining and unsupervised […]
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Caracol, SHADA: Hoax masking foreign appropriation of fertile Haiti lands
English translation by Doumafis Lafontan * (Editor’s Note: Scroll down for the French original of this article. English translation by Doumafis Lafontan for HLLN, May 1, 2012. The article outlines the similarities between SHADA (Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development) clear-cutting, stripping fertile Haiti forests and lands to plant rubber and sisal for US market , […]