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Clinton Family Pockets Haiti Assets in Telephone Company Privatization, Says Pumphrey
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
10 Mar 2010
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hillary inspecting the colonial holdingsA Black Agenda Radio interview by Glen Ford
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Backed by the might of the United States military and their own official positions, the Clinton power couple plus brother-in-law have muscled themselves into the Haitian telephone monopoly. This cozy public-private partnership poses huge conflicts of interest, says Paul Pumphrey, of Brothers and Sisters International – and robs the Haitian people of hundreds of millions in revenues a year.   But then, that's what empires are for, isn't it?

 

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