Post #1675026
2026-04-11 17:40 UTC
Before sunrise, Aristide was escorted onto a waiting plane and flown out of the country he had been elected to lead. By morning he was gone. Haiti was not an exception, but part of a recurring history in which democracy abroad has often been tolerated only when it aligned with American interests.
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Image: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard B. Myers talks with Brigadier General Ronald S. Coleman after disembark from Toussaint Louverture IAirport 13 March 2004. Wikimedia Commons.
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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 17:43
Intellectual Map The Haitian Revolution Blackburn, Robin. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848. London: Verso, 1988. Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004. Fick, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Geggus, David Patrick. Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 5/11
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@hwebb@mas.to 2026-04-11 17:53
@Deglassco The US was created and exists to serve private interests, usually at the expense of public interests both domestic and international.