When the French colonials colonized Haiti they managed to live like kings off of the sugar cane, the rice crops, the indigo. Why haven’t the Haitians simply followed the same model and turned their country into a paradise of abundance?
By my logic, they should be loaning money to other countries and have a filthy rich treasury.
Your logic is faulty. The French only profited from their colonies in Haiti because they had free slave labor.
How were the emancipated Haitians supposed to follow that model?