Why Does Haiti Suck? Part 2: Problems with Peoples
watch on iPhone/iPod TouchSynopsis: The catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti on January 12th has killed perhaps a quarter of a million people and economically ravaged the entire state. More importantly, it has laid bare to the world a totally impoverished country that is ill-equipped to take care of itself even in good times, much less when disaster strikes. How is it that Haiti got to this point of sucking so bad? In this three-part plaidcast, the Plaid Avenger gives you some of the background and chronic problems which have plagued this state since its inception. Part 2 describes contentious issues among the ‘classes’ of color of Haitian citizenry and how this is a core cause of the calamity, within the country and across the Caribbean island of Hispaniola as a whole…
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Keywords: Haiti, mulatto, Dominican Republic, Haitian Revolution, Hispaniola, Carribean, Rafael Trujillo, Jean-Pierre Boyer
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Yeah these 3 part series podcasts are the BEST!
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Very good series. I have been curious as to Haiti’s history having just returned from there and seen Port-au-Prince prior to the earthquake. What you present here agrees with the recent nytimes op-ed piece by Mark Danner, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22danner.html . I’m looking forward to the thrilling conclusion of part 3! Also, thanks for the series on the AfPak border insanity.