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2005-02-07 Caribbean-Latin America

A Year Since Aristide, Haiti Impoverished

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-07 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Haiti has been a failed state since 1804. When Toussaint threw out the French,nobody knew how to run a country, and the rest of the world refused to recognize or help the new country, out of fear their own slaves would rebel. Take tribalism plus voodoo plus endemic ignorance and you have Haiti.

Posted by mom 2005-02-07 8:34:53 PM|| 2005-02-07 8:34:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect it was a failed state as soon as the French got a hold of it.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-07 8:42:54 PM|| 2005-02-07 8:42:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 They inherited "failed state" status from the French.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-07 8:43:47 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-07 8:43:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 When Sekou Toure, Marxist leader of Guinea at the time of independence, refused to join the French Community, the departing French trashed the infrastructure, even ripping phones off the walls. The French colonizers have a lot to answer for.

The more I read history, the more convinced I am that France hasn't had a competent government since the days of Henry IV (late 16th-early 17 C). His immediate descendants, Louis XIII and XIV, created the policies that led directly to the French Revolution; and colonization started on their watch and under the direct control of the King of Micromanagement, Louis XIV.

Posted by mom 2005-02-07 8:51:10 PM|| 2005-02-07 8:51:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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