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Ateam2/02/2010 6:07:35 am PST

re: #68 rwdflynavy

Haiti earthquake: voodoo high priest claims aid monopolised by Christians

Max Beauvoir, Haiti’s “supreme master” of voodoo, alleged his faith’s opponents had deliberately prevented much-needed help from reaching followers of the religion, which blends the traditional beliefs of West African slaves with Roman Catholicism.

“The evangelicals are in control and they take everything for themselves,” he claimed. “They have the advantage that they control the airport where everything is stuck. They take everything they get to their own people and that’s a shame.

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Let us stay within some reasonable calculations:
USA government aid to Haiti - $100M
MTV donations - $67M
Haiti population - 9M people
167:9= $19 per capita