But the “international community” felt that Haiti’s government couldn’t handle so much money, so they appointed former U.S. President Bill Clinton as head of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Fund and guaranteed that he would have complete control.
Now $6 billion of these contributions have yet to be dispersed. At a demonstration in New York on Jan. 13, called by the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti (Komokoda), Haitians asked, “Where’s the money, Bill?” They also pointed out that then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton installed Michel “Sweet Mickey” Martelly as president of Haiti to cover up this plunder.
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