Leid Stories - 11/07/13

Haiti: Very Poor, Yet So Very, Very Rich

 

Leid Stories returns to our continuing discussion (from Nov. 4) on Haiti, where an already calamitous situation, the result of overlapping crises, is further deteriorating.

This edition looks at the anomaly that Haiti is – the poorest nation in the hemisphere, yet exceedingly rich in oil, gold and other mineral deposits.

Veteran journalist Kim Ives, editor with Haïti Liberté, a news weekly serving the Haitian diaspora, discusses the vastness of Haiti’s wealth and the forces that seek to exploit and control it.