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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (433267)7/10/2018 9:51:37 AM
From: Horgad  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
The US has a very long memory and nobody beats them at holding a grudge. Haiti's history is pretty agonizing to read... really a lot of those island's history's are, but Haiti's is especially bad. Genocide of the native populations, slavery, poverty, corruption, revolutions that get them now where, natural disasters, etc.

I visited a few them many years ago and then again just recently...the latest smack for some of them was the US cracking down on offshore banking. You could that former 'wealth' decaying with lots of government and office type buildings literally falling apart. Also Jamaica used to be a 'friendly' place (never wealthy) with tourists intermingling with locals and spreading the $$ around a bit. Now the $$'s stop at the corporate door and tourists and their money are kept "safe" behind walls and guards.

The corporations pay out to corrupt politicians. The people see none of it. Picture a giant cruise ship at a Disney like port complete with a fake heavily guards town and on the other side of fence you can glimpse real Jamaican business's trying to scrape by and a little further in the distance, if you get up high enough, you can glimpse a shanty town build out of scraps of wood and tarps.
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