The fact that Haiti is a shithole, has been a shithole, and will continue to be a shithole is not the fault of the nation being a complete shithole, nope, this is your fault
Racial justice, climate justice, and reparations: Haiti as an exemplary case
Around the world, countries that were once colonized are consistently more climate-vulnerable than the countries that colonized them—with countries that neither colonized nor were colonized falling between the two.
The coloniality of climate change operates in numerous ways. Colonialism and slavery enormously enriched colonizing countries. This violence and extraction enabled colonizing powers to accumulate wealth, fueling the Industrial Revolution and, in turn, excess greenhouse gas emissions by Global North countries. It also established a global economic model based on the extraction of resources from the Global South that continues to worsen inequality and the climate crisis today. At the same time, colonialism—and the continuing neocolonial dynamics that followed formal decolonization—impoverished colonized countries, degraded their environments, and undermined their governance: all key factors shaping their climate vulnerability.
Colonialism, slavery, and the extractive economy they created relied on racist hierarchies. This structural racism persists today and shapes who is less and more vulnerable to the harms of climate change. As the former UN special rapporteur on racism has underscored, the climate crisis is a racial justice crisis.
The nation has been given enormous amounts of money and aid over the decades, and has been a complete shithole and gotten worse, not better. The Dominican Republic has a wall to keep them out. When they are imported they bring 3rd world, maybe 4th world, lifestyles to wherever they go. This has nothing to do with ‘climate change’: it’s just an excuse for the nation being a failure.
But, they want lots of free cash, and there are plenty of leftist wackos looking to give it to them.
Somehow, the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, isn’t the feces hole that Haiti is. Same island, same weather, same climate.
It’s the Clinton’s fault. And Jimmy Carter’s fault. Haiti had a perfectly adequate dictator to run things and keep the wheels on the bus, but the Clinton family send the US military there to overthrow him. Carter carried the message for them. Haiti has not recovered since then.
Shithole countries like Haiti do not grow organically, they are created. It should be obvious tht the effects of climate change are more damaging to poor nations with limited resources. Wooden shacks with tin roofs are more susceptible to hurrican force winds than are brick and block buildings. Denuded mountains more susceptible to mudslides from tropical storms. Shithole nations with poor healthcare are more susceptible to disease.
When colonized by Europeans in the 1500s, France occupied the western third (now Haiti) and Spain the eastern two thirds (now Dominican Republic, DR) of Hispaniola. In the DR region, Taino natives were wiped out by the mid 1800s by European smallpox and other diseases and the Spanish brought in African slaves to work their plantations.
Haiti was a French colony until the late 1700s, when former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture led a slave rebellion resulting in the creation of Haiti in 1804. Importantly, Haiti was forced to pay crippling reparations to France for over a century. Haiti borrowed heavily from Western banks at extremely high interest rates, which was paid off by 1947. The US invaded Haiti in 1915, seizing control and installed a US-friendly president. US occupation ended in 1934.
President for life, Papa Doc Duvalier, was elected in 1957 and consolidated his rule as a strongman, creating the Tonton Macoutes, a presidential police force to “maintain order” by terrorizing the citizenry. Papa Doc died in 1971 and his son, Baby Doc, took the reins and reign. He was a fervent anti-Communist like daddy so the US supported his excesses against his own people. The economy cratered when their swine industry was decimated by disease and Pope John Paul II visited and criticized Baby Doc. Baby Doc abandoned Haiti for France in 1986. Military coup after military coup occurred until the US sent 20,000 troops, reinstalling previously-elected reform President Aristide in 1994, who was forced out in 2004. The US was accused of supporting the revolt but that was never proven. Preval was elected president in 2006. The wealthy and professionals have been fleeing Haiti since the 70s. Tropical storms and hurricanes caused flooding and mudslides – an earthquake struck in 2010 killing at least 250,000 Haitians and leaving 1.5 million homeless; followed by a cholera epidemic from disruption of sanitation systems. Since 2021, Haite has had no government, being run by violent gangs.
Just as the Professor points out, rule by Shithole Dictators is the most stable and efficent form of Western governance. Haitians Papa Doc and Baby Doc, DRs Trujillo (who had some 25,000 Haitians killed along the DR side of the border), Trump, Peron, Chavez, Castro are best for stability and suppressing critics.
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Just the highlights…
Haiti is very poor.
Poor people do worse in natural disasters.
Not really, ED. Rich people do worse in natural disasters. They have more to lose.
fP,
The wealthy can stay in a fine hotel why their insurance co rebuilds their home.
The poor stay huddled in a shack or a shelter, scrounging food for their kids.
Graham Greene would have been sad and sickened to witness the lawless violence going on in Haiti today. After all it was his favourite Caribbean beauty spot. Haiti is indeed such a beautiful country and we have so many fond memories of visiting Haiti. Talking of Port au Prince, Graham Greene and the Hôtel Oloffson, Haiti may be a shocking place to live now but not everyone thinks Haiti is Hell and that sentiment would not just be limited to Graham Greene were he alive. Of course, Graham was one of the great writers of the 20th Century and an MI6 spook.
One other ex-spook used to love Haiti until the TonTon Macoute hunted him down like a wild animal. Maybe he deserved it? Was he front running the real CIA Haitian equivalent to the Cuban Bay of Pigs?
If you relish and yearn for Haitian spy thrillers as curiously and bizarrely compelling as Graham Greene’s Comedians, crave for the cruel stability of the Duvaliers and have frequented Hôtel Oloffson you’re never going to put down Bill Fairclough’s fact based spy thriller Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series. His Haitian experiences may have been gruesome but they make for intriguing reading compared with today’s grim news.
Beyond Enkription is an intriguing unadulterated factual thriller and a super read as long as you don’t expect John le Carré’s delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots. Nevertheless, it has been heralded by one US critic as “being up there with My Silent War by Kim Philby and No Other Choice by George Blake”. Little wonder Beyond Enkription is mandatory reading on some countries’ intelligence induction programs.
Beyond Enkription is so real you may have nightmares of being back in Port au Prince anguishing over being a spy on the run. The trouble is, if you were a white spook being chased by the TonTon Macoute in the seventies you were usually cornered and … well best leave it to your imagination or simply read Beyond Enkription.
Interestingly Fairclough was one of Pemberton’s People in MI6 (see a brief intriguing News Article dated 3 May 2024 in TheBurlingtonFiles website). If you have any questions about Ungentlemanly Warfare after reading that do remember the best quote from The Burlington Files to date is “Don’t ask me, I’m British”.
Graham Greene enjoyed Port au Prince under the protections of the violent dictator ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier. Dictators often keep ‘cooperative’ wealthy safe.
Interesting