Last week I was sitting down to lunch with a new friend from Haiti, and it was a bizarre experience. He had arrived in the US the day before. And right as we sat down to eat, he found out that one of his employees in Haiti had been kidnapped that morning. Our lunch conversation…
But one thing will get America to help
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Another substack invited me to write a piece on Haiti’s history, focusing on its divergence from the Dominican Republic. I tried to write the best, most…
The New York Times recently published a series of articles about the history of Haiti. Unfortunately, I'm writing this essay to call them out. They made…
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In 2010, Jovenel Moïse was not a political figure. He was a businessman in the North with likely zero political aspirations. 11 years later, he made…
Could Alexander Hamilton have prevented the assassination of Jovenel Moïse? I don't mean if Hamilton was alive today. What if in 1804, at the beginning…
After the assassination of Haiti’s president and a significant earthquake in Haiti’s southern peninsula, the logical next step seemed to be thousands of…
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The graph is wrong. It’s about a week after the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moïse, and a graph is going viral. The virality is…
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