Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti by Jake Johnston
English | January 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1250284678 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 3.44 MB
Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation—a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers—come to such a precipice?