Comments on: Updated: Plans to Install New Leaders In Haiti Crumble https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble/ Truth Exists: Lies Are Made Up Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: penny2 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble/#comment-3860 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:47:31 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=5769#comment-3860 In reply to Mark Finnegan.

Hi Mark
thanks for sharing that memory.
And some history regarding the slave revolt- I’d read about it previously.
When I think about Haiti, I think about – real estate and location, location, location.. And can’t help but consider the real possibility that Haiti is kept, intentionally down, so it can continue to be exploited by the more powerful global players.

There are times I wonder why it is Dominican Republic remains relatively unscathed while Haiti is under constant/consistent attack by outsiders?

]]> By: Mark Finnegan https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/03/13/plans-to-install-new-leaders-in-haiti-crumble/#comment-3858 Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:36:07 +0000 https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/?p=5769#comment-3858 Hi Penny,
The fate of Haiti has been a source of sorrow for me almost my whole life. I visited Port-Au-Prince, Christmas 1967, back in Medieval times when cruise ships still docked there on the colonial tour the empire vacations. I was 11 years old, Papa Doc Duvalier was still in power, we actually saw him drive by in an open top motorcade. He was tossing out pennies to the peasants from a bucket full as he drove along. It’s the worst poverty I’ve ever seen and it can only have gotten way worse.
Some times I think the colonizer countries have enslaved Haiti with decades of reparation payments and sanctions to punish the nation for the 18th Century slave revolution of Toussaint L’Overture. Some have called that the only “successful” slave revolution in history, but I find it difficult to describe anything that has happened in Haiti with the term “successful”.
And to think that at one time Haiti was the richest most profitable sugar colony in the Spanish kleptocracy. Before centuries of neglect and erosion it was a fertile land that supported a thriving local economy. Now it is a wasteland of exploitation and forgotten dreams.

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