Caribbean historian 🌴🇭🇹 Visiting Scholar, Woodson Institute at UVA. Kluge Fellow, 2020-2021.
Feb 14, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Enormous protests in #Haiti right now. If you want a good run down on what is at stake, let me recommend "Haiti by the Numbers" by @JakobJohnstoncepr.net/blogs/haiti-re… Some highlights:
Corruption at highest office:
Minimum amount the Gvt of Haiti invested in Agritrans, a banana exporting plantation run by current president Jovenel Moïse: $6 million
Date on which Moïse appeared at Agritrans to mark the first shipment of bananas to Europe: September 8, 2015