Haiti is a shithole. It has always been a shithole, part of the reason is because as a colony it was quite literally deserted by its mothercountry, France, after a revolution when the French were driven off this dire country. France's attitude was essentially a swift "Fuck you" to their former citizens and ceased all aid.
Typical of a people who are suddenly freed, the Haitians were incapable of establisheing a rule of law as defined by the social norms of modernity, it has nothing to do with race or intelligence, but one is obviously unqualified to to a job when both experience or education is foreign. Haiti is the poorest country in the wealthiest hemiisphere in the world, the conditions were wretched before the earthquake which devastated the country last year. It was reported that cement buildings turned to dust during the shaking, and naturally, the country has not completely recovered from this disaster. Over the weekend, the former dictater, Baby Doc has returned to his homeland.
Baby doc was a fiqure that was characteristic of his time. Intellectuals, and critics of his office would suddenly disappear overnight. When Baby Doc fled the country in 1986 he cleaned out the nations coffers and left them utterly destitute. Which is why I was surprised to see a positive reaction to his return this weekend. Well it turns out that there are some, who has a memory. This morning, as reported by CNN, he was placed under arrest and taken to jail.
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