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2010-01-26 Caribbean-Latin America

The upside of Yankee imperialism in Haiti

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Haiti is an odd case in the world. They are the only modern nation born from a slave revolt. All of the capital of the country fled to Cuba and New Orleans after the French were defeated. They basically started with absolutely nothing and little expertise at anything. A very unique situation in the world.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-26 02:01|| 2010-01-26 02:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Not to mention a horrific indemnity imposed at gunpoint by the French that took a hundred years to pay off.

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-26 07:44|| 2010-01-26 07:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Haiti, the 58th state ??

Posted by Tom- Pa 2010-01-26 08:14|| 2010-01-26 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 See today's Burg article titled: "Europeans say Jews exploit past to extort money."

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-26 08:28|| 2010-01-26 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry, we've got enough crippled, money-pit states already.

Posted by mojo 2010-01-26 10:23|| 2010-01-26 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 True, mojo, but there are days I'd trade Haiti for Laficornia ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-26 10:47|| 2010-01-26 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmm, Interesting, it seems former Phrench owned States/Nation's Government(s) suck.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-26 13:44|| 2010-01-26 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The French were the worst colonists evah. I include Quebec and Louisiana among the failed states they've left in their wake.

Posted by regular joe 2010-01-26 15:21|| 2010-01-26 15:21|| Front Page Top

#9 If the Haitian people really wanted to get in good with us, they'd apply for statehood, or at the very least to be a US territory ...

Clean it up. Install some sewage treatment plants, water treatment plants, sensible land management, roads, building codes, power, law enforcement, etc. It could easily rival Jamaica as a tourist destination and quite possibly a lot of other places too. It might also have some potential for agriculture and light manufacturing. Definitely has cheap labor.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-26 16:27|| 2010-01-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Haiti paid reparations to France for a successful revolution from the 1830's until 1947!!.

Maybe France could help out by refunding the $22 billion they drained from the cesspool they created.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-26 18:01|| 2010-01-26 18:01|| Front Page Top

#11 There is a belief among leftists in Latin America that any non-white territory that requested statehood would be given the Turkish brushoff. Even many Puerto Ricans beleive that they would not be granted statehood. I beg to differ. Why should they escape having Nancy Pelosi be their Speaker of the House?

Posted by Super Hose 2010-01-26 21:53|| 2010-01-26 21:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Speaker of their house?

Hmm, it would give her somewhere new and tropical to fly her broomstick to.

Posted by GirlThursday 2010-01-26 22:20|| 2010-01-26 22:20|| Front Page Top

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