A corruption scandal in Haiti has ignited a massive protest and thrown the Haitian government into crisis. At issue is the misuse of nearly $2 billion from PetroCaribe, a Venezuela-sponsored program that was supposed to help rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. We speak to Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

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Haitians Rise Up Against Corruption, Austerity

by Jake Johnston, The Real News Network
October 28, 2018

<h1>Haitians Rise Up Against Corruption, Austerity</h1> <p class="byline">by Jake Johnston, The Real News Network <br />October 28, 2018</p> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2h7RDF7y0I</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">A corruption scandal in Haiti has ignited a massive protest and thrown the Haitian government into crisis. At issue is the misuse of nearly $2 billion from PetroCaribe, a Venezuela-sponsored program that was supposed to help rebuild Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. We speak to Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research</span></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://therealnews.com/haitians-rise-up-against-corruption-austerity&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://therealnews.com&quot;&gt;The Real News Network&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-TRNN-2021-logomark-square.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://therealnews.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=179792&amp;amp;ga4=G-7LYS8R7V51&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://therealnews.com/haitians-rise-up-against-corruption-austerity&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/therealnews.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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