Voodoo is part of their problem.
We 'lived through" Northridge, too, and it was by no means major. What happened then cannot be compared to what happened in Haiti.
Over a century ago a leading U.S. diplomat described Haiti as a “public nuisance on our doorstep.” His observation is still true today.
As far as whether France would do that, I doubt it! When Reagan was president, I mean, I’m thinking of Granada -
... quoting from Wikipedia ...
The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation of just over 100,000 population located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela, triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. The successful invasion led to a change of government but was controversial due to charges of American imperialism, ...
—— I thought for sure it was spelled “Granada” but I guess I’m wrong! ... Maybe something like this would have happened back in Reagan’s time, but I doubt that France or anyone else will, now.
With an average IQ of about 72, I'm sure that will be happening any day now.
There are very sound and well-understood reasons why the successes of Western civilization can't just be magically replicated in any random third world backwater.
“Nor are they related to a voodoo curse”
I still say Voodoo is the problem.
Uhuh just like it is the culture of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Somalia, Detroit, New Orleans and a whole bunch of other places...
It is just an amazing coincidence I'm sure that this 'culture' is shared in so many places.
Only once in modern history was the government of Haiti honest and fair. This was when it was run by the United States Marine Corps.
The first United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915 and ended in mid-August, 1934.
American President Woodrow Wilson sent 330 U.S. Marines to Port-au-Prince on July 28, 1915. The specific order from the Secretary of the Navy to the invasion commander, Admiral William Deville Bundy, was to “protect American and foreign” interests. However, to avoid public criticism the occupation was labeled as a mission to “re-establish peace and order...[and] has nothing to do with any diplomatic negotiations of the past or the future” as disclosed by Rear Admiral Caperton.
For the next nineteen years, advisors of the United States governed the country, enforced by the United States Marine Corps.
Almost needless to say, the Haitians wasted no time in returning Haiti to its pristine state of violent and chaotic poverty.