Monday, February 22, 2010

Peter Hallward (earlier TODAY) on “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”

 
“Unless prevented by renewed popular mobilisation in both Haiti and beyond,  the perverse international emphasis on security will continue to distort the reconstruction effort, and with it the configuration of Haitian politics for some time to come.” 

“What is already certain is that  if further militarization proceeds unchecked, the victims of the January earthquake won’t be the only avoidable casualties of 2010.” 



Peter Hallward is the author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment and a professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University.

Kim Ives is journalist with the newspaper Haiti Liberté, speaking from Port-au-Prince.

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