Forum Post: Real life game play: Haiti might have $20 billion in gold to be mined
Posted 12 years ago on May 12, 2012, 2:39 p.m. EST by Pequod
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A destitute impoverished country with no engineering infrastructure at all needs Europe and/or America/Canada to mine this gold.
Anyone taking the risk to mine this country is going to want to be paid a lot to do it.
How to make this win/win? ( If the corrupt Haitian govetnment gets it claws in it, the average Haitian wont get a penny)
$20 Billion... thats all?
Afghanistan has over $1 Trillion in precious metals, rare earths, copper, titanium and magnesium. Lets see how this one turns out for the poor Afghanis.
http://afghanistan.cr.usgs.gov/minerals
U.S. defense officials estimated in 2010 that there could be as much as $1 trillion worth of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium in Afghanistan.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/09/30/USGS-touts-Afghan-mineral-wealth/UPI-87811317379756/#ixzz1uj8WbD5j
The Haitian government is corrupt because it gets rich by perpetuating the country's neo-colonial dependency. If the Haitian people had control over their own resources, this problem would be solved and it would be a rich trading nation with self sustaining agriculture.
For their enslavement (France, British traders), wars of attempted re-enslavement/extermination (France, Spain, Britain), then swindling and proxy oppression (France again, USA, Canada - via the Duvaliers, military, UN, TN corporations etc) of the Haitians for 300 years, all of Europe and US/Canada owe Haiti the engineering infrastructure for free.