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46.  “Uribe Criticizes Obama over Free Trade Pact,”
Colombia Reports
, April 3, 2008, http://colombiareports.co/uribe-criticizes-obama-over-free-trade-pact/.

47.  “Colombia Business Forecast Report,”
Business Monitor International
, 2nd Quarter 2008 Report.

48.  “U.S. Secretary of State Willing to Work with Colombia on Trade Deal—Official,” BBC Monitoring Americas, February 26, 2009.

49.  Muscara, Aprille, “U.S.: Spate of Trade Deals Move toward Passage,”
Global Information Network
, January 28, 2011, http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/01/us-spate-of-trade-deals-move-toward-passage/.

50.  “Secretary Clinton’s Remarks to the Press at the Release of the 2010 Human Rights Reports,” Humanrights.gov, April 8, 2011.

51.  US Department of State, “2010 Colombia Human Rights Report,” http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160452.pdf.

52.  Dougherty, Jill, “Hillary Clinton Tells U.S. Businesses ‘We Need to Up Our Game,’ Abroad,” CNN.com, July 12, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/12/clinton.business.abroad/.

53.  AFL-CIO, “Colombia,” http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Colombia/Colombia.

54.  Jimenez, Carlos, “Frank Giustra,”
ElPais.com.co
, January 20, 2012, http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/opinion/columna/carlos-jimenez/frank-giustra.

55.  Press Office of Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo (Colombia), “Rather than Just Leaving Zamora ANH,” September 13, 2011, moir.org.co/Mas-que-justa-la-salida-de-Zamora.html.

56.  “Letter from Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo, Bogotá, August 23, 2011, to Ronald Pantin, President of Pacific Rubiales Energy, Bogotá,” http://www.pasc.ca/fr/node/3390.

57.  “Canadian Billionaire Frank Giustra May Not Harvest Timber in Choco,” August 24, 2012, http://vox-populi.com.co/billonario-canadiense-frank-giustra-no-podra-extraer-madera-en-el-choco/.

CHAPTER 10: DISASTER CAPITALISM CLINTON-STYLE

1.    Haberman, Maggie, “50 Politicos to Watch: Cheryl Mills,”
Politico
, July 19, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/50-politicos-to-watch-cheryl-mills-94182.html.

2.    US Government Accountability Office, “Haiti Reconstruction U.S. Efforts Have Begun, Expanded Oversight Still to Be Implemented,” report, May 2011, http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/318629.pdf.

3.    “Bill Clinton’s New Plan to Fix Haiti,”
Esquire
, August 7, 2010, http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/bill-clinton-haiti-news-070810.

4.    US Department of State, “Fast Fact on U.S. Government’s Work in Haiti: Interim Haiti Recovery Commission,” fact sheet, January 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2011/154141.htm; http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/318629.pdf.

5.    US Government Accountability Office, “Haiti Reconstruction U.S. Efforts Have Begun.”

6.    US Government Accountability Office, “Haiti Reconstruction: USAID Infrastructure Projects Have Had Mixed Results,” June 2013, http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/655278.pdf.

7.    World Bank, “Indonesia: A Reconstruction Chapter Ends Eight Years after the Tsunami,” December 26, 2012, http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/12/26/indonesia-reconstruction-chapter-ends-eight-years-after-the-tsunami.

8.    US Government Accountability Office, “Haiti Reconstruction: U.S. Efforts Have Begun.”

9.    Sontag, Deborah, “Rebuilding in Haiti Lags after Billions in Post-Quake Aid,”
New York Times
, December 23, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/world/americas/in-aiding-quake-battered-haiti-lofty-hopes-and-hard-truths.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

10.  Herz, Ansel, and Kim Ives, “WikiLeaks Haiti: The Post-Quake ‘Gold Rush’ for Reconstruction Contracts,”
The Nation
, June 15, 2011, http://www.thenation.com/article/161469/wikileaks-haiti-post-quake-gold-rush-reconstruction-contracts.

11.  Clary, Mike, “Broward Rivals Battle for Work in Post-quake Haiti,”
Sun Sentinel
(Florida), July 14, 2010, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-07-14/news/fl-haiti-recovery-rivals-20100714_1_ashbritt-post-earthquake-haiti-debris.

12.  Echeverria, Lily, “Contractors Bet on Work in Helping Haiti Recover,”
The Ledger
(Lakeland, FL), May 26, 2010, http://www.theledger.com/article/20100526/NEWS/5265081.

13.  Iuspa-Abbott, Paola, “Developer Takes Fact-finding Mission to Haiti,”
Daily Business Review
, March 4, 2010, http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/id=1202466755176/Developer-takes-factfinding-mission-to-Haiti?slreturn=20141003155631.

14.  O’Grady, Mary Anastasia, “Clinton for Haiti Czar?”
Wall Street Journal
, January 24, 2010, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704509704575019070435720154.

15.  Herz and Ives, “WikiLeaks Haiti.”

16.  Boyer, Peter J., “General Clark’s Battles,”
New Yorker
, November 17, 2003, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/17/general-clarks-battles.

17.  Haberman, Maggie, “Wes Clark Also ‘Ready for Hillary’ Clinton,”
Politico
, June 23, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/wes-clark-ready-for-hillary-clinton-93194.html.

18.  US Department of State, Embassy in Port-au-Prince, “Earthquake Sitrep as of 1800,” Wikileaks, February 1, 2010, https://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10POR-TAUPRINCE110.html.

19.  Viglucci, Andres, “Low Cost Cabins Offered for Post-Haiti Earthquake Housing,”
Miami Herald
, February 25, 2010. Brinkmann, Paul, “Claudio Osorio Target in $220M Swiss Probe,”
South Florida Business Journal
, January 27, 2011, http://www.bizjournals. com/southflorida/news/2011/01/27/claudio-osorio-target-of-swiss-probe.html?page=all.

20.  US Overseas Private Investment Corporation, “Non-confidential Information Summary for the Public,” InnoVida Holdings LLC, n.d., http://www.opic.gov/sites/default/files/docs/innovida_haiti_smef.pdf.

21.  Gray, Kevin, “Claudio Osorio Arrested on Fraud Charges over Innovida Haiti Housing Scam,” video,
Huffington Post
, December 7, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2012/12/07/claudio-osorio-fraud-charges-jeb-bush-innovida_n_2262717.html.

22.  Chiarella, Tom, “While Most of the World Has Stopped Paying Attention to Haiti, Bill Clinton Is the De Facto Leader of the Effort to Rebuild the Country,”
Esquire
, July 19, 2010, http://www.esquire.com/features/impossible/bill-clinton-haiti-relief-0810-7.

23.  Charles, Jacqueline, “Bill Clinton to take on key Haiti reconstruction role,”
Miami Herald
, March 30, 2010, http://sbrewsterw.typepad.com/thebrewstereport/2010/03/the-miami-herald-bill-clinton-to-take-on-key-haiti-reconstruction-role.html.

24.  Pierre-Pierre, Garry, “Our Man in Haiti: Bill Clinton,”
America’s Quarterly
, Fall 2009, http://www.americasquarterly.org/garry-pierre-pierre-haiti.

25.  Hujer, Marc, “A Stubborn Savior: Is Bill Clinton Haiti’s Hope for Salvation?”
Spiegel
, January 10, 2012, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-stubborn-savior-is-bill-clinton-haiti-s-hope-for-salvation-a-807377.html.

26.  Archibold, Randal C., “Haiti’s Prime Minister Quits after 4 Months,”
New York Times
, February 25, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world/americas/garry-conille-resigns-as-haitis-prime-minister.html.

27.  “Haiti Economy: Bill Clinton’s Role in Economic Policy Increases,”
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Newswire
, November 15, 2011, http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?ar ticleid=978596082&Country=Haiti&topic=Economy&subtopic=Current+policy&sub subtopic=Economic+policy:+Bill+Clinton%27s+role+in+economic+policy+increases.

28.  Johnston, Jake, “Outsourcing Haiti,”
Boston Review
, January 16, 2014, http://www.bos tonreview.net/world/jake-johnston-haiti-earthquake-aid-caracol.

29.  Ibid.

30.  Valbrun, Marjorie, “Haitian Firms Few and Far between on Reconstruction Rosters,” Center for Public Integrity, January 11, 2012, http://www.publicintegrity. org/2012/01/11/7846/haitian-firms-few-and-far-between-reconstruction-rosters.

31.  Uttley, Jimmy, “An Eventful Time for Haiti: Did Anyone Notice?”
Haiti Observateur
, May 27, 2009.

32.  Marcus, Ruth, “Reelection Team Repeatedly Asked President’s Aid,”
Washington Post
, September 22, 1997, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf092297.htm.

33.  Byron, Christopher, “Pols’ Haiti Hook-up,”
New York Post
, March 2, 2005, http://www. haitipolicy.org/content/2882.htm?PHPSESSID=.

34.  O’Grady, Mary Anastasia, “Democrats for Despotism,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 27, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB122506507943370505.

35.  Ibid.

36.  Heinrich, Erik, “Haiti’s Mobile Redemption,”
Fortune
, August 15, 2013, http://fortune. com/2013/08/15/haitis-mobile-redemption/.

37.  Ibid.

38.  Jackson, Steven, “Digicel Operating Profit Hits Record US$1B,”
The Gleaner
(Jamaica), June 6, 2012, http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120606/business/busi ness5.html.

39.  Bramhill, Nick, “Bill Clinton Praises Ireland for Being First to Help with His Global AIDS Initiative,”
IrishCentral
, October 10, 2013, http://www.irishcentral.com/news/bill-clinton-praises-ireland-for-being-first-to-help-with-his-global-aids-initiative-227204991-237782151.html.

40.  “Find a Goal for Jamaica to Embrace, Says Bill Clinton,”
Jamaica Observer
, October 27, 2010, http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/business/Find-a-goal-for-Jamaica-to-embrace--says-Bill-Clinton_8091662.

41.  Humphreys, Joe, “Bill Clinton Visit Cements Close Working Relationship with Denis O’Brien,”
Irish Times
, October 10, 2013, https://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?article=true&q=&tag_person=Mr%20O%20Brien&tag_company=Con rad%20Hotel&tag_organisation=Un.

42.  Clinton, Bill, “The Case for Optimism,”
Time
, October 1, 2012, http://content.time. com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2125031,00.html.

43.  Browne, Vincent, “O’Brien’s Record Should Disbar Him from Having a Disproportionate Hold on Media,”
Dennis O’Brien News
, August 14, 2013, http://www.denisobrien news.com/?p=25; Tribunal of Inquiry (Ireland), “Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Payments to Politicians and Related Matters,” part II, vols. 1 and 2,
The Guardian
March 2011, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/22/irish-minister-accused-collusion-telecoms; http://www.moriarty-tribunal.ie/asp/detail.asp?objec tid=310& Mode=0&RecordID=545.

44.  See VCSmining.com and Evens Sanon and Danica Coto, “Haiti Awards Gold, Copper Mining Permits,”
Associated Press
, December 21, 2012.

45.  Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, “Haiti’s ‘Gold Rush’ Promises El Dorado—but for Whom?” June 27, 2012, http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/haiti-lakwev-gold-rush-north-america-mining-company-corruption.

46.  Regan, Jane, “Haitian Senate Calls for Halt to Mining Activities,”
Inter Press Ser vice
, February 24, 2013.

47.  Reitman, Janet, “Beyond Relief: How the World Failed Haiti,”
Rolling Stone
, August 4, 2011, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-world-failed-haiti-20110804?page=7.

48.  Ibid.

49.  Ibid.

50.  US Agency for International Development, Office of Inspector General, “Audit of USAID’s Efforts to Provide Shelter in Haiti,” April 19, 2011, https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/audit-reports/1-521-11-003-p.pdf.

51.  Macdonald, Isabel, and Isabeau Doucet, “The Shelters that Clinton Built,”
The Nation
, August 1–8, 2011, http://www.thenation.com/article/161908/shelters-clinton-built.

52.  Doucet, Isabeau, and Isabel MacDonald, “Shelters in Leogare Inspected by Clinton Foundation,”
The Gazette
(Montreal), August 27, 2011.

53.  Sontag, Deborah, “Rebuilding in Haiti Lags after Billions in Post-Quake Aid,”
New York Times
, December 23, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/world/americas/in-aiding-quake-battered-haiti-lofty-hopes-and-hard-truths.html?pagewant ed=all&_r=0.

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