Enjoy!
A lot of this comic is based on an article by Reed Lindsay from the Nation that came out on June 2nd. Here's a link, but I guess you only get to look at the start of the article if you don't subscribe. I read it at my local library. The article is called "Haiti on the Death Plan," the 'Death Plan' being many Haitians' name for the government's liberal economic policy.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/lindsay
Here are a few highlights from the article:
- More than 4.5 million Haitians spend more than half their income on food, and there has been rioting and strong public response to the increase in food prices over the last year.(p 22)
- Haiti is one of the most economically liberal countries in Latin America. (p 24)
- Their newly elected president has promised more food aid and has gotten rice prices to drop, but does not seem to plan on changing the economic policy of keeping inflation low no matter what. (p 24)
2 comments:
This is absolutely fantastic. And anyone who thinks they look like teeth is an idiot--they are CLEARLY international actors and political institutions.
ok except that...they have roots? rooty typey things? i say make the country one green and give him a lake or something...
but also, i like them and i like the idea of my idiotic teeth having conversations like this. :]
xo lily
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