Breakthrough News has had consistently excellent coverage of Haiti going back quite a while now. You can check out some of their older videos, for example the ones they made after the assassination of the former president last year. In some of them they went into the history of Haiti a little as well. Haiti has a long history of colonial occupation, regime change, western backed dictatorship, sanctions and other incredibly destructive forms of meddling. It seems the colonial powers never forgave them for liberating themselves, being the first and only successful slave revolt in history. They were made to pay incredibly punitive reparations to their former slave owners for over a hundred years. Every time they were starting to recover and build themselves up the west would interfere, overthrow the government and impose austerity, send in its corporations to loot their resources and exploit them for cheap labor.
Breakthrough News has had consistently excellent coverage of Haiti going back quite a while now. You can check out some of their older videos, for example the ones they made after the assassination of the former president last year. In some of them they went into the history of Haiti a little as well. Haiti has a long history of colonial occupation, regime change, western backed dictatorship, sanctions and other incredibly destructive forms of meddling. It seems the colonial powers never forgave them for liberating themselves, being the first and only successful slave revolt in history. They were made to pay incredibly punitive reparations to their former slave owners for over a hundred years. Every time they were starting to recover and build themselves up the west would interfere, overthrow the government and impose austerity, send in its corporations to loot their resources and exploit them for cheap labor.