We can’t understand the tragedy of #Haiti, how it became our Hemisphere’s basket case, without understanding who put Haiti in the basket: the colonial and financial powers who locked the nation in political-economic shackles for half a millennium. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i…
In 1791, Toussaint Louverture led the world’s one and only successful mass rebellion of the enslaved that, in 1804, birthed the founding of the sovereign nation of Haiti. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i… 
#Haiti was the first nation to pay reparations for slavery — to the slave holders. Annually, even past World War II, impoverished Haiti paid France a total of $21 billion for the lost income of the slavers. forbes.com/sites/realspin…
In 2004, a group of murderous gangsters who called themselves The Cannibals led an insurrection against Haiti’s first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. US President George W. Bush immediately, swiftly sided with The Cannibals. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i…
Aristide’s mistake was to ask the United Nations to force France to return the $21 billion, swiftly leading to the US backed coup d’état. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i…
In 2010, 250,000 Haitians died. Their homes crumbled on top of them. It was not an Act of God. It was an ACT of the IMF who practiced a form of voodoo called “austerity”. The result: a nation so devastated that a little shake collapsed all infrastructure. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i…
After the earthquake, as if Haiti hadn’t suffered enough, President Obama put two well-known grifters in charge of receiving and handing out recovery funds, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
While the actor Matt Damon gave a $2 million donation for a desalinization plant to provide half a million Haitians with drinkable water, the Clinton Bush Haiti Recovery Fund —the name alone should give you chills — helped build a Marriott Hotel Resort. gregpalast.com/us-cannibals-i…
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