Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure. How did a nation founded on liberation-a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers-come to such a prec...