"Grangou klorox."

Ezili's Note: Today the almost nine million poor Haitian masses in Haiti are
silently suffering from a hunger so excruciation, so painful, they call it:
"Grangou klorox." Grangou kloros is a hunger so horrifying, so cutting and
painful that every breath you take cuts inside your belly's organs as if you've
just swallowed battery acid ("asid bateri") or imbibed pure Clorox bleach.


Recommended HLLN Link:
Children Prostitution in Haiti, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXZEJjkt4g


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- Haitians riot, attack UN base by JONATHAN M. KATZ, AP, April 4, 2008
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080404.whaiti0404/BNStory/International/home


- Haiti: Growing Concern Among Poor Over Hunger and Rural Economy
By Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis.com, Apri. 3, 2008
haiti-growing-concern-among-poor-over-hunger-and-rural-economy

- Grangou Klorox and the abuse of Haitian children by the Bush regime change
foreign contingents

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Haitians riot, attack UN base by JONATHAN M. KATZ, AP, April 4, 2008
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080404.whaiti0404/BNStory/International/home


PORT-AU-PRINCE — Demonstrators angry over the rising cost of living attacked
a UN peacekeeping base Thursday and looted food stores in southern Haiti, UN
peacekeepers and Haitian radio said.

About 5,000 people demonstrated in the southern peninsula city of Les Cayes,
where protesters chanting slogans against President Rene Preval attempted to
set the UN police base on fire and stole rice from trucks as Haitian police
helplessly stood by.

Hundreds more demonstrated in the northwestern port city of Gonaives. UN
workers were evacuated to a police base there, though protests in the coastal
city remained peaceful.

At least one demonstrator was shot in the foot in Les Cayes, but there were no
reports of serious injuries. Crowds were under control by late in the day, said
UN police spokesman Fred Blaise.

Though food prices are rising worldwide, they are a particular problem in
Haiti, where 80 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Rice
cost 60 cents at a Port-au-Prince market in January, up 50 per cent from a year
before. Beans, condensed milk and fruit went up at a similar rate, while
spaghetti has doubled.

The food unrest threatens the country's fragile security, UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said in a report this week on the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission
there.

Graffiti declaring “Down with the expensive life!” has proliferated
throughout Port-au-Prince.

Some of the most desperate Haitians depend on a traditional hunger palliative
of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening to get through the day.

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Haiti: Growing Concern Among Poor Over Hunger and Rural Economy
By Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis.com, Apri. 3, 2008

haiti-growing-concern-among-poor-over-hunger-and-rural-economy


Amongst the poor in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the lack of
affordable food is becoming a mounting problem. On tap-taps, colorfully
decorated automobiles used for transportation by the poor, one can hear this
discussion daily. Conversations on the tap-taps are referred to as "Radio
thirty two".

Many poor Haitians have taken to referring meanwhile to hunger as "Klorox", a
reference to a bleach which can kill people if enough of it is swallowed.
Riding the tap-tap one hears references to "Klorox" when people mean hunger, a
code word to mask the daily misery.

Recently, international headlines have paid attention to hunger in Haiti, where
people resort to eating mud pies.

During the 1980s, due to pressure from the United States government, the
dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier wiped out the creole pigs (porca) that
were indigenous to Haiti. After that catastrophic policy, peasants struggled
more than ever to feed their children and to take them to school. The pigs were
crucial to the rural economy, the "bank account" of the peasants. The problems
were compounded by neo-liberal policies first implemented by the military
government of Henry Namphy and continually pressured upon the country over the
following decades. Trade liberalization meant that food imports undercut
farmers who were also denied the means to invest in their production.

In recent months students and civil society groups have demanded the government
place its focus on rebuilding the rural economy. But most of the government
reforms have thus far been superficial. In March 2008 Jacques Edouard Alexis,
the Prime Minister of Haiti, invited the United States' first lady Laura Bush
to visit Haiti. This occurred just after Forbes magazine classified Haiti as
among the most violent countries, just beneath Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr. Alexis hoped that the visit would improve the image of Haiti in the world.
"When a magazine like Forbes classed Haiti in the 4th position after Iraq and
Afghanistan for example, this visit should give Haiti a chance to present a
different image of what we used to see", he explained.

While the government continues to work to improve the image of the country, the
lasting changes needed to propel a rural economy and social investment programs
are null and void.

In the Artibonite’s Valley and the Cayes’ Valley-two places that could
potentially supply all of Haiti with rice-a breadbasket for the country-the
government has not proceeded with improving to any large extent. According to
many Haitians, even poor who rely on cheap foreign rice, developing the
countries potential is what the government needs to do.

Haitians living in the United States are also advocating a multi-pronged
program to revitalize the rural economy. And in Port-au-Prince it is more
common now to hear outrage on the streets over the matter.

Merisma Jean-Claudel, a young high school graduate from Port-au-Prince
explained over the phone "...people can’t buy food. Gasoline prices are going
up. It is very hard for us over here. The cost of living is the biggest worry
for us, no peace in stomach means no peace in the mind. Although, many can’t
pay taxi or tap-tap fares just from Delmas to the downtown of Port-Au-Prince, I
wonder if others will be able to survive the days ahead because things are
very, very hard. It is imperative that the government reopen food banks to save
lives. In 2003 they had food banks in the popular districts. Now they are
closed. The government must reopen them if they don't want people to die."

Endy, an adult Haitian man, observed ”It is really impossible to live. I
can’t drive to go to my work. I am pretty sure that things must be changed
because they can’t stay like that. People must be able to get a daily plate.
They die from hunger. That is the headlines news in almost all the media in the
Haitian Capital now ”.

He added “The non-profit organizations can’t keep up. They are overwhelmed"
and he added many could even close their doors or leave at any time.

Their is a sense of desperation and urgency amongst the poor but a will never
to give up. Attempts by popularly elected Haitian governments to create
sustainable sovereign programs have been crushed, by embargo's on aid and
ex-military insurgencies.

In one famous quote “No life and no hope for us”, a man on a radio show in
Haiti shortly after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown in 2004,
spoke sadly of the future for his country. Instead of a government coordinated
food bank program, as established under the Aristide government (2001-2004),
the poor have no option now but to pay increasing prices for basic food
staples.

But the poor are demanding to know what is their government's agriculture
policy, when will the government intervene to defend the rural economy and make
sure people have enough food to eat? The two issues are tied together. A large
amount of investment and political will is needed if the hunger problem alone
is to be solved. Rebuilding the rural economy serves an even larger problem.


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Grangou Klorox and Children Prostitution in Haiti, 2008


Ezili Danto's Note: Grangou Klorox
Post Bush-Jr's Haiti regime change:

After Bush, the Lesser's 2004 regime change, street children in Haiti went from
Lafanmi Selavi sorts of shelters for homeless children started by President
Aristide when he was a parish priest ( http://www.posthoc.com/lafanmi.htm ),
went from running a radio station for homeless children called "Radyo Timoun";
went from running a television station, to what? after the 2004
US-orchestrated-2004-coup-detat?

Homeless Haitian children have, after the US/McCain-IRI-created-Group-184
finished with Haiti, after they replaced Aristide with Latortue's Boca Raton
technocrats, US Marines and then MINUSTHA... went from misery to hell and
today, in 2008, there's an epidemic of children prostitution in Haiti under UN
occupied Haiti with the figurehead Preval Administration to keep the masses in
check.

Haiti has more foreign soldiers permanently on its soil than since the first US
occupation in 1915. And, while the UN makes millions upon millions to pay these
soldiers and implement their "reforms" and "stability" programs; while the
World Health Organization is paying itself almost ten million dollars to
dubiously "vaccinate" starving Haitians with almost no veins to find; while,
NGO aid monies flows to foreign "experts" and missionaries enjoying Haiti's
beaches and tropical breeze, the almost nine million poor Haitian masses in
Haiti are silently suffering from a hunger so excruciation, so painful, they
call it: Grangou klorox. "Grangou kloros" is a hunger so horrifying, so
cutting and painful that every breath you take cuts inside your belly's organs
as if you've just swallowed battery acid ("asid bateri") or imbibed pure Clorox
bleach.

Haiti went from 1994 to 2000's Haitian-centered social, civic and literacy
programs that helped the poorest of the poor and especially the street children
who were living in the gutters, to a killing field in 2004. And, now its simply
a large brothel, where children as young as 6 years old service US-imported
foreigners, NGO workers and tourists and all comers with a half-dollar. Unlike
the former homeless children who found welcome to visit the national palace
under President Aristide, today's Haitian children have no hope, and no willing
public ear that will listen to their plight and conditions. (See: Children
Prostitution in Haiti,2008 - http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=6bXZEJjkt4g )

In an article entitled the "Killers of Haiti's Street children", we are
reminded that, Bush, Sr. sponsored the first coup d'etat against Aristide in
1990 and Haiti then became a killing field where homeless children were
targeted and murdered en mass:

"When Titid became president he told the world that we street children were
people, we had value, that we were human beings.

Many adults didn't like this message. They said we were dirty and should be
thrown out like the trash that we are. But Titid loved us and when I met him,
he kissed me and put his hand on my face and told me he loved me. And they were
not the empty words of a politician.

During the first coup in 1991 the street kids were attacked and (President
Aristide's) Lafanmi Selavi (homeless shelter) was burned. Aristide came back
from exile in October 1994 and it was a new world for the children. Three years
of horror were over...."

http://www.blackcommentator.com/81/81_reprint_haiti_street_kids.html

With Bush, the Lesser's regime change in Haiti on February 29, 2004, the horror
started again for Haiti's children, except many, like Emmanuel "Dred" Wilme,
formerly of Lafanmi Selavi, had grown up fighting for their lives after and
again took up arms to defend the children who they knew had no protectors.

But the guns of the wealthiest and most educated; of first, the US Marines,
then of MINUSTHA and the Guy Philippe paramilitaries and their corresponding
Haitian economic elites ( the “Morally repugnant elites "MREs,") - destroyed
them. Urged and carried out their extra-judicial execution. Many of Haiti's
young were rounded up when the US Marines got to Haiti in 2004 and put in
indefinite preventive detention, some for "associating" with the wrong folks,
others arbitrarily arrested because they wore dreadlocks and were considered
dangerous.

Many who were thus thrown in prison back in 2004, without charges, have still
not seen a judge, and are still incarcerated today, four years on.

The Haitian economic elite, urge their extermination. The U.S. and
internationals have handedly complied. From 2004 to 2006, almost 20,000
Haitians were murdered or disappeared. The abuse of Haitian children and women
by the UN peacekeeping "saviors" and their affiliates in Haiti was
unprecedented.
(http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/festival.html#sexexploitation )

Haiti's current homeless children fend for themselves, their destruction has
not yet stopped. There seems no hope at all for these children as all as the
world's charities and do-gooders are all already in Haiti, making their Western
salaries and military millions.... ..The children though, prostitute themselves
to stop the pains of a hunger so painful, its stings like drinking Clorox. Sell
their childhood and chunks of their soul to starve off and stop "grangou
klorox." This is what Bush, Sr. and Jr's regime changes "develops" in Haiti.

The world’s well-known peace and justice activists talk and write tons of
articles, books and films about the Bush misadventures in Iraq, Iran, even the
attempt in 2000 to unseat Chavez. Very few to none speak about Bush's 2004
Haiti regime change and its horrific destruction of Haiti's fledging democracy
or, the agony poor Haitians bear in carrying, all alone, on their backs, Bush's
people and policies in Haiti today.


Ezili Danto
March 29, 2008