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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
the more ive read about the situation in haiti, the worse it sounds. Im ashamed to say i know absolutely pot-zero about the country and its socioeconomic situation, but the best we can do is donate to the Red Cross, although it sounds as though the work should have been put in there some time ago.
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Haiti's the world's oldest black republic, and the second oldest republic in the Americas, only younger than the USA. It declared independence from France in the early 1800s after a sucessful slave uprising - except it wasn't sucessful, really - Haiti had to pay France enormous financial reparations in exchange for diplomatic recognition, the cycle of international loans for this and resulting economic decline lasted for well over 100 years and left Haiti one of the poorest, most ghastly places in the world to live. And I think it just got a whole lot worse.