my understanding of the place.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Haiti
The US has been doing all kinds of meddling here (including ousting a
democratically elected president in 2004) to make sure progressive
democracy doesn't happen here.
In "Collapse", Jared Diamond uses Haiti as an example, linking social
breakdown to deforestation...everybody cooks with wood-derived
charcoal. We bought some today at the market, and it was pricey.
