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Originally Posted by Dunnyberg
Welcome to the big leagues I guess? This is how big boy countries deal with each other. How many times has Canada been screwed over by the US?
It would be even worse nowadays because of the genocide Haiti committed (actual genocide, not the current one-size-fits-all definition).
Just looking at the wiki, most of the debt was cancelled and the US and Britain recognized Haiti and started trading two decades after independence.
Maybe Haitians are responsible for most of Haiti's problems?
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What a pants-on-head-stupid and blatantly ignorant comment. Wealthy countries and their banks sucked Haiti dry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and repeated interference by France, Spain and the US has left them totally ####ed. The US basically took over de facto control of the country in the 1910s and didn't give it up until the late 1940s, and the US propped up the regimes of "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son because—like so many other despots and autocrats around the world that had US support—they were anti-communists.