UNICEF Counts Displaced Kids While US Counts Military Aid
UNICEF warns that the number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled. While the humanitarian crisis grows, mainstream outlets report the 'violence' as an isolated phenomenon, rather than the predictable outcome of decades of U.S. meddling and the systematic destabilization of a sovereign nation. The narrative avoids the 2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, plunging Haiti into perpetual instability. Funny how 'gang violence' always emerges in places where democracy is inconvenient for global powers. We are told to gasp at the plight of displaced children, yet asked to ignore that Haiti’s poverty and chaos are, shall we say, 'Made in America.' The crisis is framed as an unfortunate natural disaster, not a political
one. One might wonder when the U.S. will 'warn' about its own legacy instead of UNICEF doing the heavy lifting.