Who Owns What in Haiti?
Jacob KushnerJanuary 18, 2015 9:09 AM
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The port deal is now at risk, however, because the ground onto which Carnival’s passengers would disembark may not have been the government’s to offer. In 1970, François (Papa Doc) Duvalier, Haiti’s President at the time, agreed to lease much of La Tortue to a Texas businessman named Don Pierson, with the aim of creating a free port; Pierson’s son, Grey, now holds that lease. The contract gave Don Pierson’s company a ninety-nine-year lease, and specified that it would develop the island’s infrastructure for tourism. Though Pierson soon began signing deals to that end, including one with Gulf Oil, for three hundred million dollars, the development project never got off the ground.
Haiti’s tourism ministry contends that in November, 1971, the state renegotiated the agreement, reducing the term of the lease to twenty-five years and reducing the amount of land that it covered. This version of the agreement was ratified by decree of the new President, Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier. A year later, the Haitian government accused Pierson’s company of breach of contract, and a court in Port-au-Prince ordered the cancellation of the updated lease. The company’s appeal proved unsuccessful, and, in 1974, Haiti’s Supreme Court upheld the earlier rulings in favor of the Haitian state. Don Pierson contested the legitimacy of these decisions, but his attempts to involve the United States government did not resolve the dispute in his favor. (The 1987 and 2012 Haitian constitutions also establish that all coastal lands belong to the State.)*
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Children of All Nations (CAN), operated by Great Wall China Adoption, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Austin, Texas. Since 1996, Children of All Nations has assisted may international countries in placing more than 9,000 children with forever families. Between the headquarters located in Austin, Texas and our sister offices all over the world, we work on behalf of families each day to be experts at exceeding Hague international adoption requirements and adoptive families’ expectations.
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Former US President George H. W. Bush and Great Wall Founder and CEO Snow Wu)
Born in the central region of China, Snow Wu, the President and CEO of GWCA, has always felt dedicated to helping children. After college, she began working for the Chinese government to improve societal conditions in the People’s Republic of China. As she translated for Chinese leaders and diplomats, Snow was forever changed by the devastating state of welfare institutions she toured, particularly the overwhelmed child welfare and social welfare institutes throughout the country. Snow recognized the dire need for change. She would soon learn that her knowledge of the governmental system, as well as her ability to communicate effectively in English, as well as Chinese, would allow her to diplomatically organize the first of many stages of relief to come for the institutionalized children.
After moving to the United States to further her education, Snow began helping families translate documents given to them as they attempted to adopt a child from China. It soon became apparent that there were two halves of a whole that desperately needed each other, and Snow knew she had the power to connect them.
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Haitain adoptions come through an agency based in Texas whose parent agency is Great Wall of China Agency.
CEO is named SNOW Wu and is freinds with HGWB