Haiti: Beware of Those Who Profit From Chaos

Quite frankly, chaos can work to the advantage of some more than others. I'm not speaking of petty looters and hungry quake survivors, but multi-national corporations and international human traffickers. 

Naomi Klein's theory, called the Shock Doctrine, would be well applied to Haiti's circumstance. Finding its ultimate incarnation in Bush and Cheney's Iraq War, this theory is about disaster capitalism - exploit disaster and  profit from suffering. The 2004 Tsunami enriched many who appropriated aid money and landed lucrative building contracts along the devastated coastline of Bangladesh.


Haiti will very likely be a target for First World economic colonisation. It may receive billions in aid that will be paid to First World firms to reconstruct the nation. Then, utilities will be privatised and sold to western companies - and the spoils will be divided. In the meantime, the people will continue to suffer while rich foreigners move in for the cushy jobs created by the global companies. 

Even now, hundreds of Haitian orphans are at risk of being sold to the highest bidder. No doubt, a better home with loving parents is exactly what Haiti's orphans need - but not through a black market trade in human bodies. And God knows who can exploit these children should they find themselves in the wrong hands.

Without being too paranoid I only raise the issue because it has happened before, and in the very recent past.