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Travesty in Haiti - A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking (Paperback)
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Travesty in Haiti - A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking (Paperback)
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TRAVESTY is an anthropologist's personal story of working with
foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption,
apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story
of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent
struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt orphanage owners,
pastors, and missionaries; the nepotistic manipulation of research
funds; economically counterproductive food aid distribution
programs that undermine the Haitian agricultural economy;
disastrous social engineering by foreign governments, international
financial and development organizations--such as the World Bank and
USAID-- and the multinational corporate charities that have sprung
up in their service, CARE International, Catholic Relief Services,
World Vision, and the dozens of other massive charities that have
programs spread across the globe, moving in response not only to
disasters and need, but political agendas and economic opportunity.
TRAVESTY also chronicles the lives of Haitians and describes how
political disillusionment sometimes ignites explosive mob rage
among peasants frustrated with the foreign aid organizations,
governments and international agencies that fund them. TRAVESTY
recounts how some Haitians use whatever means possible try to
better their living standards, most recently drug trafficking, and
in doing so explains why at the service of international
narcotraffickers and Haitian money laundering elites, Haiti has
become a failed State. TRAVESTY reads like a novel. It takes the
reader from the bowels of foreign aid in the field; to the posh and
orderly urban headquarters of charities such as CARE International;
to the cold, distant heights of Capitol Hill policy planners. The
journey is marked by true accounts involving violence, corruption,
appalling greed, sexual exploitation, disastrous social
engineering, and the inside world of drug traffickers. But TRAVESTY
it is not a novel. It is founded on 15 years of academic and field
experience, research, and hard data. It entertains the reader with
vivid first hand accounts while treating seriously the problems
inherent not only in international aid, but the sabotaging effects
of the drug war on economic development in remote and impoverished
areas of the hemisphere.
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