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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day
Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives – The Nation,
13 Jun 2011
New revelations from WikiLeaks show how the US micromanaged Haiti’s economy and politics to align it to US interests. The US Embassy aided Fruit of the Loom, Levi’s and Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage. The factory owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development.
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