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Johnston, Jake, author.
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Economic assistance, American -- Haiti.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Haiti.
Haiti -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Haiti -- Economic conditions.
Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1804-
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Aid state : elite panic, disaster capitalism, and the battle to control Haiti / Jake Johnston.
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Johnston, Jake, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Subjects
Economic assistance, American -- Haiti.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Haiti.
Haiti -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Haiti -- Economic conditions.
Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1804-
ISBN:
9781250284679 (hardcover) :
1250284678 (hardcover)
Description:
viii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
The "compassionate invasion" -- The fear -- The blue helmets -- The opportunity -- The plan -- The aid-industrial complex -- The transition initiative -- The dispensable man -- The electoral carnival -- The statistical coup -- The commission -- The slogan -- The musician and his band -- The ghosts of the past -- The promised land -- The battle for reform -- The diplomat's job -- The party -- The legal bandits -- The electoral test -- The most votes money can buy -- The transition -- The banana man -- The search for life -- The $80,000 house -- The apology -- The tweet -- The mercenaries -- The ongoing revolution -- Epilogue : the assassination.
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"Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation--a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers--come to such a precipice? In Aid State, Jake Johnston, a researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, reveals how long-standing US and European capitalist goals ensnared and re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti and its people with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further devastated a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, independent aid contractors, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness"--
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Hana P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
327.73072 Jo
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
327.73072 Jo
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Molokai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
327.73072 Jo
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