Isabel Macdonald

@IsabelMacdo

Investigative journalist, media scholar and educator

Montreal, Canada
Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2009.

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  1. 15. sij

    Head's up and others working on issues of : There's some pretty damning stuff in here about the consequences of the US government's flagship reconstruction project in post-earthquake Haiti

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  2. 15. sij

    "At minimum, Castin says, the United States should not 'use American people’s tax money to finance projects that forcibly displace Haitian peasants from fertile land that is their principal source of revenue.'"

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  3. 15. sij

    Head's up ,, +others working on : There's some damning stuff in here re:how corporate aid agendas are worsening the already devastating effects of the in countries like :

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  4. 15. sij

    Thank you everyone who worked on this investigation: for the photos+for collaborating with me on all the reporting in Haiti,+ for all your editing, for help with translation,+Juan Caicedo for fact-checking

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    Keep rechecking the front page of the NYT to make sure I'm not dreaming: the biggest financial institution on planet earth has finally bent to unrelenting activist pressure and begun (emphasis very much on "begun") to acknowledge climate chaos.

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  6. 14. sij

    Instead of helping "build back better" after the earthquake, found that much US recovery aid has made the country more vulnerable to environmental disasters,including severe droughts intensified by .7/7

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  7. 14. sij

    The US promised to help "build back better" after the earthquake,but its flagship reconstruction project introduced a host of new problems (increased food insecurity, pollution,unlivable wages+sexual harassment) in a community untouched by the quake.6/7

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  8. 14. sij

    As for the money the US pledged for 's recovery after the earthquake? At least $202 million was committed for projects to support a new industrial park that resulted in mass evictions from fertile land that supported up to 4000 local people.5/7

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  9. 14. sij

    We found that more than $96 million of the US relief aid budget for post-earthquake went to pay for the expansion of MINUSTAH, the UN stabilization mission that brought Haiti a deadly cholera epidemic that has killed 10,000. 4/7

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  10. 14. sij

    We found that more than a third of the money the US provided for emergency relief in post-earthquake went to the U.S. military-who, you may recall, initially blocked the arrival of planeloads of relief supplies and emergency search and rescue personnel.3/7

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  11. 14. sij

    Of the $1.6 billion the US committed in humanitarian relief in after the earthquake, my investigation for found that all of it bypassed Haitian institutions and went directly to the US government's own agencies. 2/7

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  12. 14. sij

    Wondering whatever happened to all that money the US promised to after the earthquake? My new investigation for breaks it down 1/7

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    13. sij

    Colleague and friend Castin, in photo below, says that future development projects must be transparent & must anticipate, early on, environmental & social risks. Most important, Haitians must participate in deciding what development means. by

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    13. sij

    And a third of the money Congress appropriated for recovery efforts went to “governance and rule of law”--which in fact meant funding the very police that have tried to suppress actual protests for democracy and against corruption. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    13. sij

    Anyway, read Isabel's whole article. As she writes, "As climate change exacerbates disasters around the world, this raises questions about the potential consequences of U.S. disaster aid for many other countries."

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    13. sij

    After its 2010 earthquake, Congress pledged Haiti over $1.6 billion for emergency relief. In 2020, almost no relief has happened. Why? More than a third of that money bypassed Haiti—and went right to the U.S. military. /

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    13. sij

    Where did $1.14 billion in U.S. recovery aid go after the ten years ago? breaks it down: 1/

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    12. sij

    “Continue to lend our support” Minimum # of allegations of sexual abuse & exploitation by UN troops in , 2004-16: 150 Days it took UN to admit responsibility for cholera: 2,129 Official # of cases: 819,000 Official # of deaths: 9,789 More:

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    13. sij

    "It’s much more accurate to say that the US is a threat to Iran than the opposite—it’s the US government that is destroying Iran’s economy through sanctions that limit Iranians’ access to food and medicine, while surrounding Iran with military bases."

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    12. sij

    In 10 ten years that followed ’s earthquake, millions in aid went to U.S. corporations & the U.S. military. A fraction went to Haitian institutions. for :

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