Haiti’s poverty and problems run far deeper than the damage done by the recent earthquake, said General Assembly Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow after his recent visit to the island nation.
“What I knew intellectually, but saw now with my own eyes, was that Haiti’s poverty and problems were not just because of the earthquake,” he said. “Much has to do with global policies toward Haiti, and the decades of how we have not treated Haiti well.”
Reyes-Chow cited as an example how the United States has pushed Haiti to change its tariffs on rice. As a result, the country …