- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
Grains and Guns
Grains and Guns
Foreign Aid and Reconstruction
- Chapter:
- (p.72) 9 Grains and Guns
- Source:
- Fault Lines
- Author(s):
Beverly Bell
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter examines the controversies surrounding foreign aid and reconstruction efforts in Haiti after the earthquake. It first considers Patrick Elie's views about disaster aid and economic recovery before discussing the role of the United Nations and the United States in the reconstruction. It then discusses the deployment of U.S. troops in Haiti and the Haitians' attitudes toward U.S. military presence, noting that most expressed strong resentment over the disjuncture between their needs and the militarized response. It argues that reconstruction gave the United States and other Western powers control in pushing a pro-business development model in Haiti. The chapter also comments on the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission that was created to direct the reconstruction envisaged in the Action Plan for National Recovery and Development. Finally, it explores the role of foreign nongovernmental organizations in implementing the foreigners' plans in post-earthquake Haiti.
Keywords: foreign aid, reconstruction, Haiti, earthquake, Patrick Elie, United Nations, United States, military presence, Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, nongovernmental organizations
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 We Don’t Have Enough Water to Make Tears
- 2 What We Have, We Share
- 3 Pearl of the Antilles
- 4 Maroon Man
- 5 We Will Carry You On
- 6 You Can’t Eat Okra with One Finger
- 7 Fragile as a Crystal
- 8 Children of the Land
- 9 Grains and Guns
- 10 The Ones Who Must Decide
- 11 Our Bodies Are Shaking Now
- 12 The Creole Connection
- 13 We’ve Lost the Battle, but We Haven’t Lost the War
- 14 Social Fault Lines
- 15 Monsanto Seeds, Miami Rice
- 16 Home
- 17 For Want of Twenty Cents
- 18 The Super Bowl of Disasters
- 19 The Commonplace amid the Catastrophic
- 20 Beyond Medical Care
- 21 Hold Strong
- 22 Mrs. Clinton Will Never See Me Working There
- 23 The Central Pillar
- 24 Elections
- 25 We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Index
