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How America and the Rest of the World Ruined Haiti

France was not the only country to force Haiti down the road to failure. In 1909, US financiers began to lay the groundwork for an American occupation of Haiti... There was never any real excuse for the occupation. Haiti was unstable, the Americans said...

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A state doesn't fail because of some innate inferiority in its people... A state fails because of its history.

Haiti has never existed in a vacuum. In fact, Haiti today is a creation of the world, its failures often purposefully molded by outsiders, though almost always in collusion with the Haitian elite, who stand to profit from these failures. In this, it is not dissimilar to other corrupt countries with a history of colonial exploitation.

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Patrick Princivil says...

Make sure you let them know we understand their hypocrisy against Haiti, Hilari Clinton promote herselve American's Haitian democrate in what country.

She is playing with fire, ISIS give them enough work to do now they are looking for the good Christians to pray and fast against them, they will find what they are lookig for, I am out of my own country just for the stupidity of the old governmants, I gree that, now my finger's nail are out for them in Jesus's

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Max Mondesir says...

Haiti have been under American whatch since colonysation our richest were under control since

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Paul Dja says...

Considérant que vous me lisez au moins depuis 2009, auriez-vous l'amabilité d'écrire mes commentaires à ma place?

Vu le contenu de votre texte je saurai si les miens ont été bien compris par vous, et donc par mes autres locuteurs et locutrices.

Remerciements

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