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July 11, 2008

Haiti Is not Destabilising Jamaica

by Myrtha Désulmé, Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - For some time now, a scapegoating campaign has been afoot, to create in Jamaica's collective unconscious the perception that Haitians are the ones destabilising Jamaica by bringing guns into the country, when it is, in fact, Jamaicans who are going to Haiti to trade drugs for guns.

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Great story. I really appreciate the context Désulmé provides. Inadequate gun control in the USA continues to fuel illicit arms traffic worldwide and intensifies violence south of our border. I cannot understand the double standard in my country – especially our tactics in the “war on drugs” that do not include in anyway nonproliferation of small arms. Where is the logic?

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