The US invaded the Dom Rep more recently, 1965. How much money has been raised and sent to Haiti?Haiti has long been interfered with by the US
The US invaded Haiti in 1915 to make Haiti pay debts that France demanded as compensation for Haiti declaring independence. The US has screwed around with Haiti before that time and multiple times after
Imagine the US being invaded by France to force it to pay debts demanded by Great Britain for declaring independence.
The US invaded the Dom Rep more recently, 1965. How much money has been raised and sent to Haiti?
Haiti is doing its best impression of a Western Hemisphere Afghanistan, imo.
Someone just dispatched the last leader. You think the US was behind the assassination? My question has to do with the disparity between to separate counties that occupy the same island. What do you think is the cause of that disparity?A small poor country that has leaders acting to follow the dictates of a foreign country rather than improve the country they lead will never improve. Haiti’s leaders follow the US or get removed from power
Someone just dispatched the last leader. You think the US was behind the assassination? My question has to do with the disparity between to separate counties that occupy the same island. What do you think is the cause of that disparity?
What happened to the island that Columbus landed on? On the eastern portion, there is a fairly stable and productive nation, Dominican Republic. On the western portion there is Haiti. Haiti has been a mess for as long as I can remember. We have travelled a little bit in the Caribbean and most places that fell under French rule seem to be more squared away than the other countries. Guadeloupe and the French portion of St Martin come to mind. Haiti was under French control and Dom Rep was a Spanish satellite.
Aside: My section NCO wore the 82nd combat patch for action in the Dom Rep.
And what lead do we give them? Well like most of our foreign aid targets, we want to pretend that they are a democracy so we make them try to maintain a form of government that they are not capable of maintaining. In order for a liberal democracy to be appropriately maintained, you need a culture that values liberalism and where the people are sufficiently educated to carry it out. Haiti does not have such things. And the current US elite, is unwilling to engage in real politic by supporting an authoritarian dictator who can maintain stability and provide the type of stability that allows a society to develop.A small poor country that has leaders acting to follow the dictates of a foreign country rather than improve the country they lead will never improve. Haiti’s leaders follow the US or get removed from power
Someone just dispatched the last leader. You think the US was behind the assassination? My question has to do with the disparity between to separate counties that occupy the same island. What do you think is the cause of that disparity?
And what lead do we give them? Well like most of our foreign aid targets, we want to pretend that they are a democracy so we make them try to maintain a form of government that they are not capable of maintaining. In order for a liberal democracy to be appropriately maintained, you need a culture that values liberalism and where the people are sufficiently educated to carry it out. Haiti does not have such things. And the current US elite, is unwilling to engage in real politic by supporting an authoritarian dictator who can maintain stability and provide the type of stability that allows a society to develop.
I would agree. But American leftists and even rightists from time to time believe that democracy is the key to everything and whenever the Haitian government falls the left will stupidly allow anyone who can float to America to live here as an illegal alien.Leave the country alone, let it sink or swim without the negative US influence
US leftists do not run US foreign policy. Claims of the US exporting democracy to any country except right after WW2 is a lie to make US citizens feel good.I would agree. But American leftists and even rightists from time to time believe that democracy is the key to everything and whenever the Haitian government falls the left will stupidly allow anyone who can float to America to live here as an illegal alien.
The Dominican Republic solved refugee crises from Haiti by declaring anyone who had no legal ancestors could not claim citizenship and deported Haitians.
So yes we need to let Haiti run their affairs but we also need to make sure they can’t come here when their governments fail
What happened to the island that Columbus landed on? On the eastern portion, there is a fairly stable and productive nation, Dominican Republic. On the western portion there is Haiti. Haiti has been a mess for as long as I can remember. We have travelled a little bit in the Caribbean and most places that fell under French rule seem to be more squared away than the other countries. Guadeloupe and the French portion of St Martin come to mind. Haiti was under French control and Dom Rep was a Spanish satellite.
Aside: My section NCO wore the 82nd combat patch for action in the Dom Rep.
its more complicated than that....Americans and Colombians were involved and a dissident Venezuelan named Tony that owned a firm that provided security equipment to law enforcement,,,,Someone just dispatched the last leader. You think the US was behind the assassination? My question has to do with the disparity between to separate counties that occupy the same island. What do you think is the cause of that disparity?
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