HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels

This is infuriating. People are wallowing in filth, disease and misery, yet the elites take care of themselves.

As some 500 000 Haitians still live in displaced camps, five star hotels are being built amid shanty towns. As part of the country's "Reconstruction", The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a deluxe structure to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area "filled with displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands”. Royal Oasis belongs to a Haitian investment group (SCIOP SA) and will be managed by the Spanish chain Occidental Hotels & Resorts. AP reported in April that funds raised by the former US Presidents to help the neediest Haitians are now being used to build a hotel for "rich foreigners" including tourists as well many foreign NGO "aid workers" currently in Haiti.

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