Comments on: Haiti: A Sweatshop Manifesto from the 1980s http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/haiti-a-sweatshop-manifesto-from-the-1980s/ Website and Blog of writer, activist and academic, Raj Patel Mon, 14 May 2012 06:10:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MrK http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/haiti-a-sweatshop-manifesto-from-the-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 MrK Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:40:57 +0000 http://rajpatel.org/?p=1443#comment-1280 " These documents demonstrate that the IMF called for the government to aggressively boost the cultivation and export of coffee and “reduce the attractiveness of domestic grain production.” " When asked again about his role in the destruction of the Haitian rice sector, Bill Clinton again talked about coffee - not rice or anything people could eat instead of export. Even here, Bill Clinton is suggesting that Haiti should go into cash crops for export, instead of becoming self sufficient in food production again. See: 3:11 Democracy Now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjrvzpUyQak ” These documents demonstrate that the IMF called for the government to aggressively boost the cultivation and export of coffee and “reduce the attractiveness of domestic grain production.” ”

When asked again about his role in the destruction of the Haitian rice sector, Bill Clinton again talked about coffee – not rice or anything people could eat instead of export.

Even here, Bill Clinton is suggesting that Haiti should go into cash crops for export, instead of becoming self sufficient in food production again.

See: 3:11
Democracy Now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjrvzpUyQak

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