UN picks pasty face Bil Clinton?
Yeah whateva!
The same Bill Clinton that didnt give a fuck about Blacks in Rwanda now all of a sudden cares about Blacks in Haiti? WTF is this a publicity stunt? Will Bill Clintons "Celebrity Status" bring attention to problem over there or is it just a smoke screen for some BS? The USA has Hatian blood all over their hands. The US helps destroy these countries and kill millions...now they wanna send one of their own to help them all of a sudden? I dont trust the move.
I know "trading issues" was one of the reasons they got put in the predicament theyre in...so the real question is what does Haiti have that outsiders can steal or gain control over? Anyways The Pic below disgust me. I know those brothas and sistas in Haiti are hurting, but they shouldnt be so quick to accept "gifts" from countries that helped put them in the situation theyre in. PROCEED WITH CAUTION HAITIAN FAM!
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations named former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday as its special envoy to Haiti, with a mission to help the impoverished nation achieve some measure of stability after devastating floods and other crises.
"It is very important to help this country," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also praised the appointment. "We think that Ban Ki-moon has chosen a high-profile envoy to raise the visibility of the needs of the people of Haiti," she told reporters at the White House.
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"It’s the kind of partnership we are looking for across the board," she said, explaining that the Obama administration had already been preparing a team to help Haiti. "This is going to be an added bit of leverage and focus for us."
Clinton is popular in Haiti, but the U.N.'s peacekeepers have been widely criticized despite providing the nation with its only real security for years. The peacekeepers have patrolled since 2004 and are training an under-equipped national police force to retake control, but some consider the blue helmets to be an unwanted occupation force.
Having Clinton as the U.N.'s public face in Haiti could temper such sentiment.
Clinton is still well-regarded here for using the threat of U.S. military force to oust a dictatorship in 1994, then sending Army troops and Marines to pave the way for the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been deposed in a coup.
Many poor Haitians — Aristide's power base — still long for their leader's return from exile after he was toppled a second time by a rebellion in 2004.
In March, Clinton toured the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince with the U.N. chief to encourage investment after a year that saw a food crisis, destabilizing riots and four devastating tropical storms.
“I am confident that President Clinton will bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of mobilizing international support for Haiti’s economic recovery and reconstruction,” Ban said.
The following month, he attended a donors conference in Washington that resulted in pledges of $324 million for the struggling country. Haiti is the hemisphere's poorest nation and has been mired for decades in political and social turmoil.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30814013/
Yeah whateva!
The same Bill Clinton that didnt give a fuck about Blacks in Rwanda now all of a sudden cares about Blacks in Haiti? WTF is this a publicity stunt? Will Bill Clintons "Celebrity Status" bring attention to problem over there or is it just a smoke screen for some BS? The USA has Hatian blood all over their hands. The US helps destroy these countries and kill millions...now they wanna send one of their own to help them all of a sudden? I dont trust the move.
I know "trading issues" was one of the reasons they got put in the predicament theyre in...so the real question is what does Haiti have that outsiders can steal or gain control over? Anyways The Pic below disgust me. I know those brothas and sistas in Haiti are hurting, but they shouldnt be so quick to accept "gifts" from countries that helped put them in the situation theyre in. PROCEED WITH CAUTION HAITIAN FAM!
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations named former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday as its special envoy to Haiti, with a mission to help the impoverished nation achieve some measure of stability after devastating floods and other crises.
"It is very important to help this country," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also praised the appointment. "We think that Ban Ki-moon has chosen a high-profile envoy to raise the visibility of the needs of the people of Haiti," she told reporters at the White House.
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"It’s the kind of partnership we are looking for across the board," she said, explaining that the Obama administration had already been preparing a team to help Haiti. "This is going to be an added bit of leverage and focus for us."
Clinton is popular in Haiti, but the U.N.'s peacekeepers have been widely criticized despite providing the nation with its only real security for years. The peacekeepers have patrolled since 2004 and are training an under-equipped national police force to retake control, but some consider the blue helmets to be an unwanted occupation force.
Having Clinton as the U.N.'s public face in Haiti could temper such sentiment.
Clinton is still well-regarded here for using the threat of U.S. military force to oust a dictatorship in 1994, then sending Army troops and Marines to pave the way for the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been deposed in a coup.
Many poor Haitians — Aristide's power base — still long for their leader's return from exile after he was toppled a second time by a rebellion in 2004.
In March, Clinton toured the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince with the U.N. chief to encourage investment after a year that saw a food crisis, destabilizing riots and four devastating tropical storms.
“I am confident that President Clinton will bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of mobilizing international support for Haiti’s economic recovery and reconstruction,” Ban said.
The following month, he attended a donors conference in Washington that resulted in pledges of $324 million for the struggling country. Haiti is the hemisphere's poorest nation and has been mired for decades in political and social turmoil.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30814013/
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