{"id":3959,"date":"2010-04-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/%e2%80%9cwe-made-a-devil%e2%80%99s-bargain%e2%80%9d-fmr-president-clinton-apologizes-for-trade-policies-that-destroyed-haitian-rice-farming\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T08:53:24","slug":"%e2%80%9cwe-made-a-devil%e2%80%99s-bargain%e2%80%9d-fmr-president-clinton-apologizes-for-trade-policies-that-destroyed-haitian-rice-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/04\/%e2%80%9cwe-made-a-devil%e2%80%99s-bargain%e2%80%9d-fmr-president-clinton-apologizes-for-trade-policies-that-destroyed-haitian-rice-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWE MADE A DEVIL\u2019S BARGAIN\u201d: FMR. PRESIDENT CLINTON APOLOGIZES FOR TRADE POLICIES THAT DESTROYED HAITIAN RICE FARMING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti\u2019s ability to be self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Kim Ives of <em>Haiti Libert\u00e9<\/em> questioned Clinton about his change of heart.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nDemocracy Now! 7-Min. Clip<\/em> \/ Video<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/pressenza.com\/npermalink\/xwe-made-a-devilxs-bargainxx-fmrx-president-clinton-apologizes-for-trade-policies-that-destroyed-haitian-rice-farming?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pressenza%2FQrjW+%28News+from+Pressenza+IPA+in+english%29&amp;utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail\"><br \/>\nCLICK TO VIEW \u2013 PRESSENZA INTERNATIONAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian rice farming and seriously damaged Haiti\u2019s ability to be self-sufficient. Journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Libert\u00e9 questioned Clinton about his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}