From: ipser@solomon.technet.sg (Ed Ipser)
Subject: U.S. Policy Hurts Haitian People, Study Finds
Organization: TECHNET, Singapore
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:29:30 GMT



  U.S. Policy Hurts Haitian People, Study Finds

  Washington, DC -- The United States must end its embargo against Haiti
  and its policy of repatriating Haitian regugees, both of which
  guarantee continued misery for the Haitian population, according to a
  new study by Ian Vasquez, assistant director of the Project on Global
  Economic Liberty at the Cato Institute.

    The hemispheric trade embargo against Haiti since the military
  overthrow of President Aristide has destroyed over 50 percent of Haiti's
  private-sector jobs, affecting nearly 1 million people. Fuel blockades
  have forced Haiti's poor to burn scarce wood, causing soil erosion and
  deforestation. Water needed for irrigation is being diverted for 
  hydroelectric power.  The sanctions have lead to malnutrition, disease,
  and famine. Meanwhile, the soldiers and elite who are meant to be the
  target of the embargo profit by hoarding and selling smuggled goods.

    The study shows how proposals for aggressive intervention to solve
  Haiti's problems ignore nearly a century of failed foreign aid and
  intervention.

    "Doing What We Can for Haiti" is no. 183 in the Policy Analysis series
  published by the Cato Institute, an independent public policy 
  organization in Washington, DC.



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