Yeah, Haiti was swimming against the current from the start. There are a large number of other factors, most of them bad. And most of them related to its origins as a slave plantation and its unsteady road to independence.
My primary point is just that Haiti minus US involvement would be unlikely to fundamentally look much different than Haiti plus US involvement. We (the US) are responsible for a good deal of suffering in Haiti’s history, but the underlying problems are much more integral.
Yeah, Haiti was swimming against the current from the start. There are a large number of other factors, most of them bad. And most of them related to its origins as a slave plantation and its unsteady road to independence.
My primary point is just that Haiti minus US involvement would be unlikely to fundamentally look much different than Haiti plus US involvement. We (the US) are responsible for a good deal of suffering in Haiti’s history, but the underlying problems are much more integral.