Re: [Marxism] The free market - Haitians resort to eating dirt

[Greg Dunkel <gdunkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to AlterPress, an online Haitian news service (www.alterpresse.org), 
the prices of basic food items in Port-au-Prince, like oil, rice, corn meal, 
beans, have gone up by 20 to 50% since the start of this year.  In Jean-Rabel 
in northwest Haiti, the poorest region of Haiti, prices have gone up by 70%.  
While food is most affected, prices of shoes, clothes and household items like 
soap are also rising.

Fanmi Lavalas held a fairly big protest about these hike on Dec. 28 and 
agricultural students came out into the streets protesting government's 
reliance on foreign agriculture, mainly from the Dominican Republic (See 
Haiti-Progres and Haiti Liberte in French and Kreyol for details.)  Women's 
group also issued press statements, but right now the focus of attention is on 
the upcoming carnival.

/greg

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