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Rory Carroll, The Guardian UK: "The global food and fuel crisis has hit Haiti harder than perhaps any other country, pushing a population mired in extreme poverty towards starvation and revolt. Hunger burns are called 'swallowing Clorox,' a brand of bleach. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization predicts Haiti's food import bill will leap 80 percent this year, the fastest in the world."

http://www.truthout.org/article/half-haitians-face-starvation



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