Who Will Benefit from Haiti’s Gold Rush?

Mining companies were exploring in Haiti, Canadian and U.S. corporations now confirm they have permits to mine gold in more than 1,000 square miles in northern Haiti. Haiti’s new prime minister says the estimated $20 billion worth of minerals in Haiti’s hills could help liberate it from dependency on foreign aid and rebuild from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

I think mining is very important to the development for a country as long as this has the economic and environmental sufficient resources for this practice to be sustainable. Haiti is a country that is in complete poverty is not only economically but also their natural resources are depleted, eroded soils, and others that do not have enough drinking water to the mining practice become the limited reserves of water in most polluted places. This is not just thinking about making money, which in this case the profits of production do not stay in haiti, most goes to the northern countries owners of large corporations engaged in the business, you should consider the population that inhabits the place and future sustainable development and to achieve sustainable progress.