A few quick gems today including Bolivia's role in the war in Haiti. Though Canada has been getting a lot of flack about its role in Haiti from people who actually give a damn about the crimes we committed there, I was completely unaware of the role which Bolivia played there.
Morales apparently in the nastier side of political concilliation has had to broker a deal that has his country staying there. I'm not exactly sure why but they have 300 soldiers there and 200 in the Congo.
In Africa in general, reports keep coming out that although we in the West are constantly acussing African leaders of corruption, they are only able to engage in it because rich-nations have an infrastructure set up to safe-guard the looted cash. "Canadian high commissioner to Kenya Ross Hynes said corruption undermined democracy, imposed economic penalties on society and posed threats to public security." The Guardian had a similar story in both 2005 and last January.
"More than $150bn a year is looted from Africa through tax avoidance by giant corporations and capital flight using 'a pinstripe infrastructure' of western banks, lawyers and accountants. This shortfall easily eclipses pledges made by leaders of the world's richest nations to increase aid and write off debt at the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005."
Meanwhile in gong-show Iraq gets better. The case of the missing $12 billion in cash that I wrote about last month, was dealt with again in Znet. Apparentlynot only did a million in funds go missing but "an obscure consulting firm from San Diego was in charge of certifying the distribution of the money, yet it never conducted any review of internal controls, as was contractually required."
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