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Haiti two years on: Beyond relief, beyond belief

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The following article is the most thorough and informative article written on the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Another excellent article in the same issue of New Internationalist examines earthquake aid funding to Haiti, Where did all the money go?--CHAN editors.

By Phillip Wearne, New Internationalist, January/February 2012

In PBS interview, actor Sean Penn praises Martelly, downplays Duvalier, and dismisses Aristide

By Roger Annis, published in Haiti Liberté, January 25, 2012

Last week, the PBS television interview program Tavis Smiley featured two half-hour evenings with Hollywood actor Sean Penn, a leading force in humanitarian relief work in Haiti since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. Subtitled by the program as an ‘Actor/Humanitarian,’ Penn strongly defended the new neo-colonial order established in Haiti through the foreign-sponsored exclusion election of 2010/11 and the foreign-led, post-quake “reconstruction” plan spearheaded by Bill Clinton.
(Full article attached here in pdf format)

Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

By Steven Stoll, published in Harper's Magazine, April 2010
(available online to subscribers only)

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