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		<title>The Haitian Tragedy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti spent more, in 2008 servicing the country’s debts than it did on health, education and the environment. In our article, Haiti—an un-natural disaster, we noted that the earthquake in Haiti, and similar disasters, are presented as unavoidable disasters; and that, to some extent, this is true. But we stated that it is not a coincidence that the number of victims is clearly related to the degree of their poverty. This was true regarding the Asian tsunami and the Katrina hurricane in New Orleans. Seumas Milne also says (Guardian, 21 January) that “It is uncontested that poverty is the main cause of the horriﬁc death toll: the product of teeming shacks, and the absence of health and public infrastructure.” In his view, this is the direct consequence of an uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world—notably the US, France and Britain, stretching back centuries. There is some truth in this, although not all Haitians were, or are, poor. Says Milne: “Punished for the success of its uprising against slavery and self-proclaimed ﬁrst black republic of 1804 with invasion, blockade and a crushing burden of debt reparations, only ﬁnally paid off in 1947, Haiti was occupied by the US between the [...]


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		<title>Miners&#8217; Wildcat in Mexico</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Labor Notes)  More than 250,000 miners and steelworkers from central to northern Mexico walked off the job March 1-3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies that virtually paralyzed the mining industry. While the strike has ended, this may be the only first act in an unfolding drama that could challenge Mexican employers, the corrupt “official” unions, and the conservative Mexican government. The strike was a response to a government attempt to remove the Mexican miners union’s top officer, general secretary Napleón Gómez Urrutia, and replace him with Elías Morales Hernández, a union member who is reportedly backed by the Grupo Mexico mining company. In many mining towns and cities, however, strikers not only demanded the restitution of their leader, but also safer working conditions. The wildcat strike erupted little more than a week after a mining accident on February 19 in San Juan de las Sabinas that left 65 dead. The strike represents one of the largest industrial actions in recent Mexican history, an event with few precedents since the workers insurgency (la insurgencia obrera) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. While the strike has ended, at least temporarily, it has shaken the mining industry, the labor establishment, and [...]


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