Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of ContainmentOnce the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has longbeen one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In thelate 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or “the flood,”sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Afterwinning a landslide election victory, in 1991 the Lavalas government led byPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by a bloody military coup. Dammingthe Flood analyzes how and why Aristide's enemies in Haiti, the US andFrance made sure that his second government, elected with another overwhelmingmajority in 2000, was toppled by a further coup in 2004. The elaborate international campaign to contain, discredit and thenoverthrow Lavalas at the start of the twenty-first century was perhaps the mostsuccessful act of imperial sabotage since the end of the Cold War. Itsexecution and its impact have much to teach anyone interested in thedevelopment of today's political struggles in Latin America and the rest of thepost-colonial world. |
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... that the “ neo - liberal strategy is to weaken the state in order to have the private sector replace it . ... let alone popular empowerment , can only be outraged by the effects neo - liberalism has had in Haiti , as in most other ...
More damaging in its effects on Lavalas ' own core constituency was Préval and Aristide's continued acquiescence in neo - liberal structural adjustment . Although neither president ever had much more than symbolic room for maneuver on ...
By the end of the 1990s , most of the antineo - liberal NGOs had much closer links with Suzy Castor's OPL than they did with FL , despite the fact that in reality the OPL was more aggressively neo - liberal than FL .
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Conclusion | 311 |
One Step at a Time An Interview with | 317 |
Notes | 346 |
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