Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti, once his nation’s richest colony — offering aid to a country laid to waste after a catastrophic earthquake.
Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti, once his nation’s richest colony — offering aid to a country laid to waste after a catastrophic earthquake.
The deeply insidious influences of French, American and other European allies long history of imposing trade embargoes, economic isolation and financial dependence on Haiti after its 1791 slave revolt lies at the very center of why the island nation continues in its economic dysfunction to this day.