Indigenous Connections
Haiti’s Colonial Wounds Cannot Heal
Last December marked the 30th anniversary of the terrible Spitak Earthquake, which shook Armenia and killed anywhere between 25,000 and 50,000 Armenian nationals and left thousands orphaned. Twenty-one years after this tragedy, natural disaster befell yet another small country in the world. This wee
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It was no accident that the US invaded Haiti during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. That man was a white supremacist if there ever was one. It was Wall Street banks that encouraged the invasion. Many of the commanding officers in the invading force were racist southerners.
Thanks for this relevant important info. It was so amazing reading the story of how the Haitians slaves outwitted and persedto topple British Spanish and Napoleon’s invading troops to gain their freedom of course the slave owing countries like the US had to make sure they could not Economically succeed and today Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with some people eating mud because they can’t afford enough food
This was an extremely informative article of which I was totally unaware of. Thank you for the detailed info and the knowledge base. Much appreciated. Please continue to inform us of these horrendous facts of life. So sad yet much needed to know (the info).
nice poem.thank you
Very fine poem Anoush!
Great poem Anoush!