Week 3 Blog 2
June 25, 2008
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U.S. officials are celebrating the official opening of a $75 million embassy compound in the Haitian capital.
Behind imposing walls and set back from the street on a former sugarcane field near the Port-au-Prince airport, the 10-acre compound features an atrium, space for more than 1,000 workers and a swimming pool.
U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson and other officials dedicated the facility Monday in a ceremony with ousted Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Eduoard Alexis and Cabinet members, who were fired by Parliament after food riots but have not yet been replaced.
Haiti has been without a prime minister or Cabinet since April 12.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-0624haiti,0,2903335.story
When i read this story i felt as if the Haitians are being left to fend for themselves while the US builds up its control. The US can obvisously afford to build a 75 million dollar building but cannot afford to give some of that money to help aid the Haitian people who are living in poverty and searching for food and fresh water. I read many of articles just liek this one, where money is going into the government but none of the money ever reaches the people. When will the people get to live like Haitians should live?
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1. dweiss2 | June 26, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I agree, I think it is really crazy that the 75 billion dollar US embassy has a swimming pool while the Hatian people are suffering just to get by. I also suggest finding away to get the money out of the corrup government and into the hands of the needing citizen of Haiti, the question is how?
2. Natasha | June 27, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Wow, that is really sad to hear that they are investing all that money for a building but are not doing something that will help the citizens of Haiti. Although the building may help create some more jobs, it is only short term and not something that really reaches out to the people. The US should divide that money and use half of it toward aid and food for the people of Haiti and build a less extrav. building.
3. khsp | June 29, 2008 at 9:55 pm
we should be embarrassed. In their defense, they do need a nice facility so that they may get some work done. I know that if I don’t have a pool nearby, then my work ethic is shot.
4. samanthalg | June 30, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I do not understand this. How can the rulers of countries such as Haiti and the US, who are supposed to promote equality and justice simply forget this problem? They celebrate a 75 million dollar pool in the capital of a country with more than half of its citizens looking for a peice of bread.