Krikorian: The problem with Haiti – Slavery ended too soon

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Jan 242010
 
Krikorian: The problem with Haiti - Slavery ended too soon

Cross Posted from THE SANCTUARY Over the past ten days much has been written about Haiti’s troubled past, the ramifications and causes of it’s crushing poverty and political instability, and the historical role many nations have played in perpetuating it’s suffering. Of course coupled with these lessons in colonial, and post-colonial geo-political history have been the expected wingnut assertions like those of Pat Robinson about Haiti’s “pack with the devil” But now, thanks to Mark Krikorian, of the Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right “think tank” opposed to immigration, we get this little tidbit of neo-colonial/white-man’s burden analysis of why Haiti remains the poorest nation in the hemisphere: