(CHICAGO) — Haitians know adversity and anguish as well as anyone. They’ve experienced over 500 years of oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, crushing debt and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen regional magnitude 7.0 or greater earthquakes. Except briefly after their successful 1804 revolution and under Aristide, they’ve […]
(CHICAGO) — Haitians know adversity and anguish as well as anyone. They’ve experienced over 500 years of oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, crushing debt and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen regional magnitude 7.0 or greater earthquakes. Except briefly after their successful 1804 revolution and under Aristide, they’ve […]