While Pat Robertson and his loyal 700 club viewers seem to think it's because of Haiti’s devilish past (his curse comment) A comment that was based on the widely-discussed 1791 slave rebellion led by Boukman Dutty at Bois Caiman, where the slaves allegedly made a famous pact with the devil in exchange for victory over the French. This history, combined with the horrible state of the country, has led countless scholars and religious figures over the centuries to believe the country is cursed.”
Cursed? Really? Well maybe they're right but — not so much by Magical Satan Powers, but by its real-world vehicle of terror: Debt. So who helped cause this debt so we can get to the bottom of this curse? Well the ultimate causes of Haiti's misery are human not demon. They are rooted in greed and power. Both the international community and Haiti's rulers have continuously assured the destruction of Haiti's colonial wealth and the creation and continuance of her misery.
Examples:
“….[T]o avoid a contagion of ideas, President Jefferson got Congress to enact legislation to ban from the U.S. all African slaves who had witnessed the Haitian Revolution or who had made a stopover in Haiti.'
The British, French and Spanish were all at war with each other over Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) and out of nowhere a black army of ex-slaves arose and successfully beat them all. Many powerful people in Europe and the Americas, including slaveholders in the American South, eyed these events with extreme alarm. Africans were suppose to be inferior and the slaves of Europeans. The reality of black ex-slaves fighting and winning against the three world powers and gaining their own independence crushed that myth in pieces. Europeans didn't want this reality to spread like wildfire to the minds of people living in European colonies worldwide, so the British, French and Spanish stop fighting amongst each other and focused on crushing Haiti. To set an example to other nations out there who dare fight for their own independence and freedom from White domination.
In 1805, the U.S. instituted restrictions on trade with Haiti.” By the end of the year, Congress banned trade with Haiti, joining the French and Spanish boycotts. These embargos crippled the Haitian economy, and helped prevent the new black nation from making a success of its independence.
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In 1825, France, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti “compensate” France for its loss of a slave colony. In exchange for French recognition of Haiti as a sovereign republic, France demanded reparations of 150 million francs, in gold. (modern equivalent of $21 billion). For Haiti, this debt did not signify the beginning of freedom, but the end of hope. Even after it was reduced to 60m francs in the 1830s, it was still far more than the war-ravaged country could afford. Haiti was the only country in which the ex-slaves themselves were expected to pay a foreign government for their liberty. By 1900, it was spending 80% of its national budget on repayments. In order to manage the original reparations, further loans were taken out — mostly from the United States, Germany and France.
Instead of developing its potential, this deformed state produced a parade of nefarious leaders, most of whom gave up the insurmountable task of trying to fix the country and looted it instead. In 1947, Haiti finally paid off the original reparations, plus interest. Doing so left it destitute, corrupt, disastrously lacking in investment and politically volatile. Haiti was trapped in a downward spiral, from which it is still impossible to escape. It remains hopelessly in debt to this day. Ever since, Haiti has been a punching bag.
Haiti, once called The Jewel of the Antilles, was the richest colony in the entire world. Economists estimate that in the 1750s Haiti provided as much as 50% of the Gross National Product of France. The French imported sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, the dye indigo and other exotic products. In France they were refined, packaged and sold all over Europe. Incredible fortunes were made from this tiny colony on the island of Hispaniola.
How could Haiti have once been the source of such wealth and today be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere? How could this land that was once so productive today be semi-barren? How did "The Jewel of the Antilles" become the Caribbean’s hell-hole?" Answer: Because Africans were in power, not Europeans..How could they trade with or make the people who defeated them rich? These people were just a large source of free labor a couple of years, decades, ect,. ago, now they have to pay them, huh? Yeah right LOL. That would imply they are equal with Europeans and if they do succeed it puts in the mind of other darkies worldwide (European colonies) that you can defeat whites and succeed as a nation.
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/JD/9_28_3.html
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/leftover/whypoor.htm
http://haitiforever.com/windowsonhaiti/amer-haiti.shtml
Makes me think of South Africa, how all of Europe and America traded with and backed the white oppressive government but after blacks rose to power shit changed.
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