As some 500 000 Haitians still live in displaced camps, five star hotels are being built amid shanty towns.
As part of the country’s “Reconstruction”,
The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund
recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a deluxe
structure to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area ”filled
with displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands”. Royal Oasis
belongs to a Haitian investment group (SCIOP SA) and will be managed by
the Spanish chain Occidental Hotels & Resorts.
AP reported in April that funds raised by the former US Presidents to
help the neediest Haitians are now being used to build a hotel for
“rich foreigners” including tourists as well many foreign NGO “aid
workers” currently in Haiti. (Daniel Trenton,
AP: New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, April 29, 2012)
It is worth noting that Western governments have insisted that aid
money for Haiti be given to NGOs and foundations rather than to the
Haitian government, which they consider to be “corrupt”.
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US,
Canada and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian
organisations and NGOs did not realize that their contribution to
Haiti’s reconstruction would be channeled towards the building of five
star hotels to house foreign businessmen. Their expectation was that the
money would be used to provide food and housing for the Haitian people.
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