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VIJAY PRASHAD explains the how corruption in the Haitian elite combined with US sanctions on Venezuela, outside sponsorship of local neoliberal politicians and Western NGOs displacing the state and has led to an explosion of rage
Protesters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.
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A CYCLE of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and — despite the pandemic — has carried on since then.
The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela — due to the illegal sanctions imposed by the US — could no longer ship discounted oil to Haiti through the Petrocaribe scheme. Fuel prices soared by up to 50 per cent.
On August 14 2018, film-maker Gilbert Mirambeau Jnr tweeted a photograph of himself blindfolded and holding a sign that read: “Where did the Petrocaribe money go?”
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