Why Does Haiti Suck? Part 3: The Political Repercussions of part 1&2
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 final installment Part 3, the Avenger sums up how the negative aspects of Haiti’s bloody birth and internal people problems have played out over the last 200 years to produce this heavily indebted and desperately poor state which has seen more than its fair share of international intrigue, destructive dictatorships, and political chaos….right on up to the modern earthquake event which has flattened these fatigued folks. But there is hope for the future!!!
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Keywords: Haiti, François Duvalier, Papa Doc, Baby Doc, Jean-Claide Duvalier, Tonton Macoute, Voodoo, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Mugabe
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I just hope when they do reconstruct Port-Au-Prince, they have the foresight to build earthquake resistant structures and don’t half-ass it. Otherwise, you might as well leave the city in ruins. It’s just a matter of time before another earthquake could hit the Haitian capital due to the fact that it sits on the intersection of two plate boundaries.