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<http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3419/bill-clinton-apologizes-to-haiti-t
oo-little-too-late> Bill Clinton Apologizes to Haiti... Too Little, Too Late



by:  <http://www.lavidalocavore.org/user/Jill%20Richardson> Jill Richardson 

Thu Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:00 AM PDT 

 
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http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3419/bill-clinton-apologizes-to-haiti-to
o-little-too-late

 


Bill Clinton realized a decade or so too late that he messed up by
prioritizing
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR201003200
1329.html>  Arkansas rice farmers over Haitians. In a stunning and wonderful
apology, Clinton said: 

 

It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not
worked. It was a mistake... I had to live everyday with the consequences of
the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people
because of what I did; nobody else.

Wow. Just so you can connect all of the dots here, recall that Clinton is
from Arkansas and Arkansas is the top rice producing state in the U.S.
During his time in office, Clinton imposed neoliberal economic reforms on
Haiti, flooding their markets with cheap U.S. rice. This put Haitian farmers
out of business, sending many of them to Port-au-Prince. In a stroke of
irony, many out of work farmers were starving... not because there was no
food but because they could not afford it. I'll be honest that I'm thrilled
Clinton's now come face to face with Haiti's crushing poverty in a big way,
because he seems to truly understand what he did as President and why it was
not good. Let's hope he also understands that this is not a phenomenon
limited to Haiti: 

"A combination of food aid, but also cheap imports have ... resulted in a
lack of investment in Haitian farming, and that has to be reversed," U.N.
humanitarian chief John Holmes told The Associated Press. "That's a global
phenomenon, but Haiti's a prime example. I think this is where we should
start."

So now that Clinton gets it, let's hope he shares his newfound wisdom with
his wife... and her boss. The bipartisan Clinton-Bush team is now promising
that the <http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-22-bush-clinton_N.htm>
U.S. will help create Haitian jobs. I sincerely hope that their plan is not
to increase imports of Haitian goods to the U.S. so that they can create
more jobs in sweatshops, but I fear that might be the case.

Related:

NAFTA was one of  <http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-179159590.html> Bill
Clinton's "mistakes" says his wife.(Quick ...

NAFTA was one of Bill Clinton's "mistakes" says his wife.(Quick
Quotes)(North American Free Trade Agreement, Hillary Clinton )(Brief
article) ... find The ...
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