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Damming the Flood - Haiti and the Politics of Containment (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Damming the Flood - Haiti and the Politics of Containment (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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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 the island from decades
of US-backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and
why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the enemies of
democracy in Haiti and abroad. The elaborate campaign to suppress
Lavalas was perhaps the most successful act of imperial sabotage
since the end of the Cold War. It has left the people of Haiti at
the mercy of some of the most rapacious political and economic
forces on the planet. Updated with a substantial new afterword that
addresses the international response to the earthquake, Damming the
Flood is both an invaluable account of recent Haitian history and
an illuminating analysis of twenty-first-century imperialism.
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