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January 28, 2010 9 min. read

Tags: economic dependence, economic dysfunction, economic foreign policy, economic isolation, French reparations, Haitian embargo, Haitian independence, hemispheric influence, Inter-American Development Bank, legacy effects, OAS, Organization of American States, ransom, Western Hegemony, Western Hemisphere

The deeply insidious influences of French, American and other European allies long history of imposing trade embargoes, economic isolation and financial dependence on Haiti after its 1791 slave revolt lies at the very center of why the island nation continues in its economic dysfunction to this day.

#economic isolation

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