In a two part 22 minute documentary video from Youtube/Al Jezeerah, Avi Lewis examines the reasons for Haiti's poverty and what the present crisis might bring. There continues to be two forces in contest in Haiti - on the one side justice and hope that the Haitian people might be returned their opportunities, and on the other that the globalized version of economic impoverishment will be re-asserted.
Two pieces of good news. IMF has under pressure changed their immediate offer of a $100,000,000 loan with the continued minimum wage stricture to a grant. Venezuala has forgiven a $380,000,000 debt for past oil and is shipping more across the Dominican Republic border.
