Haiti: Rape, murder and voodoo on the Island of the Damned
For tourists on cruise ships plying the Caribbean, Haiti appears a beguiling, mysterious place.
The first independent black state, set up 200 years ago after a rebellion by African slaves against colonial France, the mountainous island is home to exotic birds and animals and mist-shrouded tropical forests.
But it is no paradise for the country’s nine million people. Indeed, the devastating earthquake now bringing death and heartbreak is the latest in a long line of tragedies to befall a place dubbed the Island of the Damned.
No paradise: A houngan, or voodoo priest, lights a pipe in his temple in Haiti
Those with the misfortune to be born in Haiti - part of the island of Hispaniola, shared with the Dominican Republic - have long endured a living hell.
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Haiti: Rape, murder and voodoo on the Island of the Damned
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“But it is no paradise for the country’s nine million people.” Haiti
“Haitians—have long endured a living hell.” I don’t understand. A beautiful tropical paradise with mountains all a living hell??? Lets see, for the “unlucky inhabitants” of Haiti BEING in Haiti means HELL? Left here with this line of reasoning IF Haiti is a living hell then we must subscribe to magical voodoo thinking as if Zombies, the walking dead. I know, lets remove one and all from Hawaii, place 9 million Haitians there and check in just 20 years or so. Hawaii too will be a living HELL!!!
Humm, if I can still think clearly after decades of silly politically correct methods of “thinking” being shoved at me, I would put my money at the Haitians being the problem not the island of Haiti!
Years ago I foolishly toured Mexico via train and bus over many long hard days of travel from the US city of El Paso to Mexico City and over the Sierra Madre to Acapulco and back. I walked across the “border” with my backpack grievously ill yet in memory I was impressed with the physical country of Mexico. I was also impressed and disturbed by the chaotic barely functional society. Bits and pieces were nice here and there but on the whole the place was a ruin not needing any additional trouble similar to Haitians being struck by an most unfortunate Earth Quake.
In Mexico they blame the United States for their poverty, for their shambles of a country. Few speak English and just to protect myself I pretended to be Russian, German, British or Scottish since Americans seemed to be hated and my few times of saying I was an American resulted in tongue lashings about my horrible country.
The island of Haiti had it’s ever delightful implant of African slaves by the French. The slave rebellion as mentioned but not described in this article was blood-lust in it’s shear brutality but two hundred of years of freedom results in a glorious empire? This is what Thomas Jefferson feared per freed slave in the US. The result of Liberia of resettlement of former American slaves resulted in a stupendous nation? No, another Haiti on the African Continent full of places like Haiti.
Since I am not in England where I would go to jail for these naughty, wicked, burnable thoughts, is there a constructive lesson to be learned here? I bet many Americans as they watch news from the further disaster of Haiti think what I am thinking but have the politically correct modulator keeping their dark suspicions protectively dammed up. One more drop of reason in the comprehensive ocean of Truth. Can the dam hold forever or will we eventually become some vestige of Haiti and Mexico ourselves?