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Jean-Claude Duvalier, February 8, 1986
Aislin (alias Terry Mosher), Baby Doc flees Haiti to France (Ink, felt pen, overlay on paper. February 8, 1986. McCord Museum, Montreal, Quebec.
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Haiti: PEPPADEP and the Cochon Creole
Recognizing the threat that African Swine Fever constitutes for the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has worked with countries that have suffered outbreaks. When an ASF outbreak occurred in the Dominican Republic in 1978, APHIS supported [...]
Haiti: Rebuilding
“What are we? Since that’s your question, I’m going to answer you. We’re this country, and it wouldn’t be a thing without us, nothing at all. Who does the planting? Who does the watering? Who does the harvesting? Coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, caco, corn, bananas, vegetables, and all the fruits, who’s going to grow [...]
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Haiti: Monsanto
Following the disaster, Monsanto donated money to the recovery, but it was clear a donation of our products – quality corn and vegetable seeds – could really make a difference in the lives of Haitians.
“Monsanto Donates Corn and Vegetable Seeds to Haiti,” Monsanto.com (2010)
“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the [...]
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Afghanistan: Markets
In Kabul can be had the products of Khurasan, Rum, `Iraq and Chin (China); while it is Hindustan’s own market.
Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, The Babur-Nama (ca. 1530, trans. 1922)
Notwithstanding the tightly closed door into Afghanistan, trade with the outside world is increasing, important improvements are projected, and European and American ideas, fashions, and articles of [...]
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Haiti: Markets
The famous Code Noir (Black Code) of 1685 outlawed the slave-operated markets, but the French colonists protested that they were absolutely necessary to the commerce of the colony and the French government changed the law the next year and allowed the slave-operated markets to continue.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, “Black Resistance in Colonial Haiti,” Black World/Negro Digest [...]
Haiti: State
If Haitian society cannot move forward and cannot realize the dream of modernity that sparked its revolution at the end of the 18th century, it is in part because it had an elite that lived by siphoning off the country’s productivity to support its personal consumption.
J. Michael Dash, “Rebuilding Haiti: The Next Two Hundred Years,” [...]
Haiti, 1982: Les opérations étrangères