Writing on 19 November from Port-au-Prince – where burning bodies litter the streets, after weeks of unrest led to fatal clashes between criminal gangs, police and civilian vigilantes – a New Internationalist contributor reflects:
‘To grasp the unravelling situation in Haiti, one must see it through a historical lens. Two centuries ago, half a million enslaved Black people overthrew Napoleon’s French colonial rule, ending slavery on this lucrative island. This revolutionary legacy has been met with nothing but punishment – crippling debt, foreign intervention and exploitation.
