Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Why? Since its independence in 1825 until 1947, for 122 years, Haiti paid France a staggering amount of 150 million gold francs. READ MORE…. (Enlarge the pdf file to read clearly.)
Month: May 2012
Diego Garcia: The American Military Colony
Diego Garcia is an island in the Indian Ocean, covering an area of 174 square kilometres. In 1971, the British government expelled its population then numbering some 2,000 people to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the U.S. to establish a military base on the island. Today the exiled Chagossians are still fighting to go back to their homeland, claiming that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal. READ MORE…