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Re:M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti by kleinsch on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:34AM (#28180967)
It’s one of the poorest countries in the world, probably bc they had to pay debts for slave plantations for 100 years - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti

It also sits in both earthquake and hurricane areas, so frequently has disasters and then no money to recover.

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Re:M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti by JumpCrisscross on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:45PM (#28183008)
France seems to have been attempting an honest reckoning with its past, recently. Returning the present value of those debts to Haiti would bring tangibility to that effort.
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