[dfwgator]

The fact is racial politics is precisely what got Haiti in this mess in the first.

Papa Doc Duvalier gained power by exploiting the resentment of the blacks towards the lighter-skinned mulattoes and creoles that constituted a good portion of Haiti’s business and land-owning classes in the 60’s. He basically killed or drove out Haiti’s productive class and distributed the spoils amongst his Tonton Macoute thugs, who only knew how to wave machetes around instead of actually running an economy.

It’s pretty much the same modus operandi that Mugabe is employing today in Zimbabwe.

[reagandemo]

You are exactly right. I was in Haiti back in the early 90’s and my biggest impression was how people could take such a beautiful place and totally ruin it. As another poster said. I thought Bubba was going to fix Haiti. I guess he did. Kind of like the way he fixed that chippy intern he had in the White House.

[ridesthemiles]

He basically killed or drove out Haiti’s productive class and distributed the spoils amongst his Tonton Macoute thugs, who only knew how to wave machetes around instead of actually running an economy.”

Today’s news shows thugs roaming with machetes again.

Some things never change.