Every island colony that gained “independence” from the Europeans has turned into some sort of hellhole.
Some less than others, but all to great degrees.
Tribalism doesn’t work in the modern world.
After visiting French Polynesia last spring I can answer the question in one word. FRANCE. All three islands we visited are the pits. Unemployment, garbage, falling down structures, you name it.
It’s a combination of insufficient capital and too much labor.
I’m sure they mentioned corruption in there somewhere, didn’t they?
Corrupt black leaders fleecing the country.
Hey, waitaminnit......!
Always be suspicious of a writer who uses the word “diaspora” to describe anything other than the original diaspora.
I wonder if this was the source of Pat Robertson's statement that Haiti sold her soul to the devil??
It’s been Port-Au-Potty for as long as I’ve been alive.
CORRUPTION and intentionally denting proper education to proletariat. Papa Doc, Baby Doc and Aristide wouldn’t have it any other way.
Glad to see their palatial palace collapsed as well. It shows that even they were not immune to shoddy construction tactics by the corrupt builders and suppliers.
I don’t think they defeated the French as much as the French soldiers simply died of disease.
Anyway it is all Whitey’s fault. Always is.
“My hut be gotten knock down, mon!
You needin’ to build me a house, mon!
My hut was generations old an’ part of da history mon.”
Just wondering if there is any country on earth run by blacks that is not a 3rd world cesspool?
Anyone?
Will the recovery take the trouble to eliminate child slavery in Haiti?
Richest in the French New World? Well, since “Lower Canada” (Quebec and Les Maritimes) and Louisiana had gone to the British and Americans, were there any other French colonies in the New World?
Ideas and character trump skin color...always...
Considering the death toll in the current disaster, and the ongoing abysmal condition of the entire country, it seems to me that now is the time for a Haitian repatriation effort. It’s time for all Haitian brain power to head back to the homeland and start making something out of what is a 200 year old junk heap.
It’s their country, they should go home and fix it.
BUMP
1815 - The U.S. imported $60,000 worth of goods from Haiti (this was the first year that the Treasury Department tracked imports into the United States by place of origin). The main products were molasses, rum, and sugar. Haiti's imports into the U.S. made it one of our largest Caribbean trading partners. It exceeded Brazil, Florida (then a Spanish colony), and all of the Dutch, French, and Danish West Indies. Only the British and Spanish Caribbean colonies traded more, and they were economically much larger than Haiti. Source: U.S. Treasury Department, record of imports for 1815
1819 - The State Department formally requested and received a list of the commercial tariffs and trade laws imposed by the "Republic of Hayti" on goods traveling to and from the United States. Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti, officially transmitted the documents to President James Monroe on April 3, 1819. Source: State Department, Digest of Commercial Regulations, 1824.
1833 - The State Department listed three full time U.S. Consuls in Haiti in its report to Congress on existing U.S. consular officers presently stationed abroad (note: the presence of U.S. consuls in Haiti predated this report).