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    Haiti’s history of resilience – beyond coups and natural disaster

    Aug 03, 2021 3 minutes

    Dire headlines out of Haiti punctuate the decades since the 1986 fall of the Duvalier family dictatorships: several coups, violent civil unrest, failed elections, apocalyptic natural disasters, and – on July 7 – the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. And always, lament Haitians, the media shorthand the Caribbean nation as “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.” Here’s a brief on the complicated factors behind that dark moniker. 

    Is there more to the “poorest country in the Western Hemisphere”?

    Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is only a two-hour flight from Miami. Yet the standard of living

    Is Haiti to blame for its challenges? What is the path forward? 

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