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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Jan 22, 2016
• Views : 817
• Category : Diaspora News
• Description : The Haitian Times
  
  By Garry Pierre-Pierre
  January 22, 2016
• Location : Brooklyn, NY, United States
• Website : http://haitiantimes.com/diasporas-weakness-drives-crisis-in-haiti-14059/?utm_content=buffer947e5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=f

Overview

• For more than two decades, Haitian Americans have been grumbling rightly that they don’t wield any significant influence in the affairs of their beloved homeland, despite being the largest donor to the country’s coffers. Haitians living outside of Haiti send more than $1 billion a year to friends and relatives in the form of remittances.
  
  While most candidates wooing Haitian Diaspora’s money or vote, often commit to changing voting laws that bar Haitians abroad from running for office or voting, they’ve done little to introduce these laws and the general attitude of Haitians in Haiti toward their brethren is: Send us your money, but stay away from our social and political affairs.
  
  Naturally, such attitude have rankled Haitians overseas. But I think the fault lies with the Diaspora by focusing most of their effort to be a major player in Haiti. We argue that we have the manpower, the technical skills and the savvy to help Haiti– a country that has been bleeding brainpower for close to 50 years.
  
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