By The Indypendent Staff

Haiti may not be the center of the world’s attention anymore, but the United States hasn’t turned its eye away. In fact, the United States military has embarked on a new occupation of Haiti—the third in the last 16 years, the Indypendent’s Arun Gupta writes.

“Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide “security and stability” to bring in aid, violence was never an issue, according to nearly all independent observers in the field.

The military response appears to be more opportunistic. With Haiti’s government “all but invisible” and its repressive police forces “devastated,” popular organizations were starting to fill the void. But the Western powers rushing in want to rebuild Haiti on a foundation of sweatshops, agro-exports and tourism. This is opposed by the popular organizations, which draw from Haiti’s overwhelmingly poor majority. Thus, if a neoliberal plan is going to be imposed it will be done at gunpoint.”

For more, see “The U.S. in Haiti: Neoliberalism at the Barrel of a Gun,” below.

Also in the latest issue of the Indypendent: an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC; what’s next for climate change solutions after the failure of Copenhagen; and a look at the upcoming Oscars.

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