May 31, 2022

Haiti’s stolen billions

By NY Times series - multiple authors

For more than a century, Haiti has been labeled a disaster, a basket case, a place so destitute, indebted, lacking and lawless that it needs constant saving. The assassination of the president in his bedroom, the kidnappings in the capital, the swells of Haitian migrants heading to the United States — they all point to a country in a seemingly endless vortex of despair that the world’s great powers, whether with troops or mountains of aid, have not managed to fix.

But the documents and financial records reviewed by The Times in Haiti, the United States and France show how much of Haiti’s misery has been brought by the outside world — and how often intervention has been portrayed as a helping hand

The root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations. By Catherine Porter, Constant Méheut, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan. Published May 20, 2022 Updated May 26, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-history-colonized-france.html

Haiti’s lost billions By Lazaro Gamio, Constant Méheut, Catherine Porter, Selam Gebrekidan, Allison McCann and Matt Apuzzo – NY Times series May 20-25, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/20/world/americas/enslaved-haiti-debt-timeline.html?searchResultPosition=2