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

Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment

Peter Hallward

474 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate t...

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