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Haiti: Country Without a Net

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Op-Ed Contributor Country Without a Net By TRACY KIDDER Published: January 13, 2010 NY Times THOSE who know a little of Haiti?s history might have watched the news last night and thought, as I did for a moment: ?An earthquake? What next? Poor Haiti is cursed.? But while earthquakes are acts of nature, extreme vulnerability to earthquakes is manmade. And the history of Haiti?s vulnerability to natural disasters ? to floods and famine and disease as well as to this terrible earthquake ? is long and complex, but the essence of it seems clear enough. Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans, who, in 1804, when slavery still flourished in the United States and the Caribbean, threw off their cruel French masters and created their own republic...continue to full post

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