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Excerpted from WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS ISSUE #262, FEBRUARY 5, 1995

USAID, Soros Fund at Work in Haiti

From Weekly News Update on the Americas,
issue #262, 5 February 1995

Graffiti have been appearing on walls in Port-au-Prince's huge Cite Soleil neighborhood promoting the candidacy of Reginald Boulos for mayor of Delmas, the northern sector of the capital. (The repeatedly postponed legislative and municipal elections are now scheduled for April.) Boulos is a doctor who heads the Centers for Development and Health, a healthcare network funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and reputed to employ FRAPH members [see Update #213]. Boulos is now rumored to be a favorite of Washington's for the December presidential race. [Inter Press Service 1/18/95]

New York-based international financier George Soros has recently opened a foundation in Haiti. Soros, who has accumulated some $7 billion from the speculative ventures known as hedge funds, maintains foundations throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to promote privatization and other neoliberal economic policies. The umbrella group for these foundations is headed by Aryeh Neier, former head of Human Rights Watch. [New Yorker 1/23/95] Neier still writes a regular column, Watching Rights, for the left-liberal weekly Nation. He recently reported on the human rights situation in Haiti without mentioning his foundation connection. [Nation 2/6/95]

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