Marguerite Dorival, 45, right, moved from Port-au-Prince along with her family after the earthquake to Cabaret. Photo by Ricardo Arduengo / APThe AP reports via MSNBC about the exodus of Haitians from Port-Au-Prince back to their country roots. The article states: the government is encouraging Haitians to undertake a sort of reverse migration back to the countryside, where grinding poverty led them to seek out a better life in urban slums in the first place.
AP, By foot and bus, Haitians return to native towns
Like most of the coverage since the earthquake this information is provided without the larger context of what may have lead to such "grinding poverty". Oxfam's site regarding fair trade has a report on how Haiti's rice growers in the countryside were devastated by US trade policies that drove them out of production. It is just one reason that lead to the country not being able to sustain itself while demonstrating in part why people left an agrarian life to try to make it in an over-crowded city.
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