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Money laundering opportunities abound in Haiti crisis

Money launderers thrive during catastrophic events, due to the greatly reduced focus on compliance, and the urgent need to get financial and other assistance to the afflicted area. Look for opportunistic money laundering: the repatriation of narcotics profits, earned in…

Has Haiti ceased to exist as a country?

Marginal Revolution Hundreds of thousands of people have died, the U.N. Mission has collapsed, the government is not working (was it ever?), and hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of people are living in the streets without reliable food or…