[R-G] Canada's "Right Arm": FOCAL's Role in the Privatization of Haiti

[Anthony Fenton]

Canada’s ‘Right Arm’:
FOCAL’s Role in the Privatization of Haiti

By Kabir Joshi-Vijayan, activist with the Toronto Haiti Action Committee

On behalf of the Canadian government, the Canadian Foundation for the  
Americas (FOCAL) is playing a central role in facilitating certain key  
aspects of a major neocolonial ‘reconstruction’ program in Haiti. This  
program involves the dismantling and subsequent restructuring of  
Haiti’s entire political, economic and social structure by the  
“international community.” What we are witnessing in Haiti is the  
complete destruction of a nation, to serve the interests of capital.  
Every aspect of Haitian society is being colonized and opened up to  
the ‘free’ market flood of foreign products. Much of the country is  
being handed over to a supposedly “progressive” “civil society” of  
extremely wealthy Haitians, or simply seized by transnational  
corporations. The role of Haiti’s elected government is being reduced  
to simply watching over this colonial arrangement as the Haitian state  
becomes increasingly powerless.

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