Indeed there are quite a few very educated capable folks there but the bulk of the evergrowing populace is simply incapable of possessing the tools to prosper beyond anything other than fieldwork or sweatshops...either of which would be welcomed there and rightly so but are quite scant.
10 million folks in a mostly hardscrabble area the size of Maryland....over 50% illiterate...
Despot after despot...a tiny bourgeoisie 200 years in the making after they massacred the original capitalized class or drove the survivors off...
I don't think Voodoo helps anything personally...I do not find it benign like the relativist folks do but I don't think it's God's wrath either (but who knows for sure)...Lord knows it would seem they have been punished enuff already
Sad little fact is that Haiti worked better for more folks under the Duvaliers especially nutty Papa Doc but...and a huge BUT.....one was not free to speak one's mind....Papa Doc was brutal but it was a "trains ran on time" sorta thing....relative to how Haiti usually is
Duvalier did what precisely Mugabe is doing today in Zimbabwe. Steal property from the productive class and distribute it to his thugs, the Tonton Macoutes. He drove out most anyone who was educated. Of course the blacks supported him, since his victims tended to be the lighter-skinned mulattoes.