Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?

Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall? by Symmetry on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:39PM (#12532709)

Yeah, there isn't really one in Haiti or necessarily one in general. But strongmen charging aid agencies for access to refugees has contributed to instability in some cases such as the Great Lakes refugee criss[1] which touched off the Congolese Civil War, one of the 20 deadliest human conflicts in history. If aid agencies are willing to walk away that isn't a problem, but not all of them are.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_refugee_crisis

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Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall? by M_Grey on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:16PM (#12532986)

To be honest, that seems to have been the product of a genocide which we did very little to prevent or palliate, far more than any actions by aid organizations. Quite a bit after the initial humanitarian crisis had eased, you did see the military takeover and there's little doubt that aid became problematic at that point.

The primary lesson though is that aid organizations can't handle a military without another military backing them. The UN couldn't make that happen, so the result was to promote conflict in the end.

Truly, that isn't even remotely analogues to the situation in Haiti.

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