Welcome to Haiti.

Wherever they go, they will make Haiti.

by David Sims

IT DOESN’T TAKE an earthquake. Not where Haiti is concerned. It has had billions of dollars’ worth of aid from America, from Canada, and from Europe in foreign aid over the years. America rebuilt Haiti’s entire economy and national infrastructure three times during the 20th century, but each time the improvements were destroyed not long after the US Marines had gone back home.

In the 18th century, Haiti, then called San Domingue and ruled by the French, was the most prosperous colony in the New World. Its fertile soil produced an abundance of crops and drew thousands of French settlers. African slaves were imported to help with the work. So rich was its soil that San Domingue’s agricultural product exceeded, for a time, that of all thirteen of the original English-American colonies combined. In the late 1700s, as an outgrowth of the French Revolution, the slaves in Haiti were incited to revolt, and they did — murdering every French man, woman and child. They took over government, changed the name of the country, and declared themselves a republic. What had been the richest colony in the New World quickly sank into poverty. The roads and cities built by the French fell into ruin. The “republic” of Haiti was governed by a mixture of violent anarchy and bloody despotism, which took the place of French law and order.

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