^^^ Why does Jim B hate America?
As far as I can tell Haiti has been a mess since Columbus, a Spaniard, visited in 1492 roughly 300 years before the US even existed.
Wiki- " The
external debt of Haiti is a notable and controversial national debt which mostly stems from an outstanding 1825 compensation to former slavers of the
French colonial empire and later 20th century corruptions.
The
French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars in Europe allowed rebel Haitian slaves to overpower
French colonial rule and gain independence in the 1791–1804
Haitian Revolution. The
restored French monarchy, supported by European monarchies, sent the
1825 French expedition to Haiti to demand, with military menace, massive compensations: Haiti had to repay the French government and former slaveholders the modern equivalent of US$105 billion, later reduced to US$21 billion for the loss of massively profitable slave-plantation assets and revenues. This price for independence was financed by French banks and the American
Citibank, and finally paid off in 1947.
Later, the corrupt
Duvalier dynasty added to the country's debts. The Duvaliers are believed to have used the money to expand their power and for their personal enrichment. In the early 21st century, and especially after the
devastating earthquake in 2010, the World Bank and some other governments had planned to forgive the debt. Instead, remaining parts of Haiti's debt repayments were postponed. France forgave a more recent loan with a balance of US$77 million, but has refused to consider repaying the independence debt.
These debts are denounced as the root of contemporary Haiti's poverty and a case of
odious debt, debt forced upon a population with abusive force. In 2022,
The New York Times published a dedicated investigative series on that matter.
[1]".
NYT Haiti Debt
"More than 200 years ago, enslaved Haitians successfully revolted against their French masters and declared themselves free. Two decades later,
the French government demanded Haitians pay reparations to former slave masters, under the threat of war. Without the funds to pay, Haitians had to take out a loan from French banks. This would come to be known as the “double debt,” and is part of the reason
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world today."
So yeah it was the Clintons and the US occupation that was the cause of the disaster known as Haiti.
