[news] Giving a Helping Hand to Haiti’s Elite: How CIDA's "Agents of Regime Change" Supported the G184

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By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!

**The Group of 184** (G184) was the most powerful coalition of "civil society" organizations in Haiti during the lead up to the 2004 coup. Dominated by Haiti’s business elite — and generously fund[ed] by American, Canadian and European government "aid" and "democracy promotion" agencies — the G184 coordinated and led the successful campaign to destabilize Haiti’s elected government and depose President Aristide. This umbrella group for Haitian "NGOs" pushed the agenda of Haiti’s largest corporations—the owners of which are among that 1% of the country’s population that owns nearly 50% of its wealth...CIDA funneled $23 million into the hands of the G184 and projects run by ten of its member groups.  
  


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