{"id":269448,"date":"2010-02-02T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21324"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:38:30","slug":"the-fateful-geological-prize-called-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269448","title":{"rendered":"The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/HaitiMineralMap.jpg\" alt=\"Mineral Map of Haiti\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21341\" width=\"289\" height=\"205\" \/>F. William Engdahl writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&#38;aid=17287\">Global Research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world\u2019s richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Haiti, and the larger island of Hispaniola of which it is a part, has the geological fate that it straddles one of the world\u2019s most active geological zones, where the deepwater plates of three huge structures relentlessly rub against one another \u2014 the intersection of the North American, South American and Caribbean tectonic plates. Below the ocean and the waters of the Caribbean, these plates consist of an oceanic crust some 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F. William Engdahl writes on Global Research: Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world\u2019s richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}