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05/03/2008: "Jesse Jackson urges Haiti debt relief"

U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called for urgent debt relief for Haiti on Tuesday to ease the burden of a food crisis that sparked violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation earlier this month.

Jackson said Haiti owed the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank about $1.5 billion, with debt service payments reaching some $70 million a year.

"We want this debt canceled and the people relieved of its burden," Jackson told a news conference at the presidential palace following a meeting with President Rene Preval.

[ Americans are also starting to feel the pinch from food price increases. When Americans start to face starvation will US debt get cancelled? No chance. With a change of government, debts can be reneged on however. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080429/pl_nm/haiti_jackson_dc_1