{"id":405,"date":"2022-05-31T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=405"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:18:19","slug":"haitis-stolen-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/haitis-stolen-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti’s stolen billions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u2014 they all point to a country in a seemingly endless vortex of despair that the world\u2019s great powers, whether with troops or mountains of aid, have not managed to fix.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the documents and financial records reviewed by The Times in Haiti, the United States and France show how much of Haiti\u2019s misery has been brought by the outside world \u2014 and how often intervention has been portrayed as a helping hand<\/span><\/p>\n

The root of Haiti\u2019s Misery: Reparations. <\/b>By <\/span>Catherine Porter<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Constant M\u00e9heut<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Matt Apuzzo<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Selam Gebrekidan<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>\u00a0<\/b>Published May 20, 2022 Updated May 26, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/20\/world\/americas\/haiti-history-colonized-france.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Haiti\u2019s lost billions<\/b> By <\/span>Lazaro Gamio<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Constant M\u00e9heut<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Catherine Porter<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Selam Gebrekidan<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Allison McCann<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Matt Apuzzo<\/span><\/a> \u00a0– NY Times series May 20-25, 2022.\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/05\/20\/world\/americas\/enslaved-haiti-debt-timeline.html?searchResultPosition=2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How a French Bank Captured Haiti. By <\/b>Matt Apuzzo<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Constant M\u00e9heut<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Selam Gebrekidan<\/b><\/a> and <\/b>Catherine Porter<\/b><\/a> Published May 20, 2022Updated May 26, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/20\/world\/french-banks-haiti-cic.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Invade Haiti and Wall Street Urged: The US Obliged<\/b>. By <\/span>By <\/b>Selam Gebrekidan<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Matt Apuzzo<\/b><\/a>, <\/b>Catherine Porter<\/b><\/a> and <\/b>Constant M\u00e9heut<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Published May 20, 2022\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Updated May 26, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/20\/world\/haiti-wall-street-us-banks.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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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 \u2014 they all point to a country in a seemingly endless vortex of despair that the world\u2019s great powers, whether with troops or mountains of aid, have not managed to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}