Nor is it enough to threaten no further increases in assistance to Haiti in the absence of satisfactory cooperation by the Haitian Government on human rights and other measures. The Government in Haiti may well be unmoved by such threats. The Haitian Governments cooperation in aid programs has at times resulted in slanting those programs to favor the countrys elite or in siphoning AID funds into its own projects. The political obstacles to development in Haiti must be confronted. the economic plight of the refugees "is a political condition." as the U.S. district court in Florida noted last year in the case of Haitian Refugee Center v. Civiletti. 501 F. Supp. 442 (S.D.
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