Banks and shops protected while most people get no help

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The US military has taken over the airport and are obstructing rescue efforts. Caribbean and Latin American governments and Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres are complaining that the US is preventing humanitarian aid coming in.  In a repeat of what the US did with Katrina, banks, shops and institutions are protected while starving people who help themselves to whatever they can find are called a ‘security risk’ and shot at…..” Continue Reading here

Donate to grassroots women. Support return of elected President Aristide. For more information see Global Womens Strike. The US military has taken over the airport and are obstructing rescue efforts. Caribbean and Latin American governments and Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres are complaining that the US is preventing humanitarian aid coming in.  In a repeat of what the US did with Katrina, banks, shops and institutions are protected while starving people who help themselves to whatever they can find are called a ‘security risk’ and shot at....." Continue Reading here

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