Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment by Peter Hallward

Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment

Peter Hallward

482 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has long been one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or “the flood,” sought to liberate...

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