• mnemonicmonkeys
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    5 days ago

    But it’s been crisis after crisis since Spanish times.

    I’d like to clarify that Haiti was actually a French colony. And a major contributing factor to Haiti’s ongoing problems is the fact that France convinced the other world powers at the time to demand that Haiti pay France reparations for the revolution.

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      5 days ago

      The entire island of Hispaniola was Spanish until the 17th century. Shirt was pretty dire back then too.

      But yeah, the French are the major power that fucked them good until the Monroe doctrine took over.