tommyknocker wrote:

N8KDV wrote:



Diverd4777 wrote:

In article , N8KDV
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That place was a total mess when I was in Port-au-Prince in the '70's.
Absolute poverty. I doubt if it's ever gotten better.


I had an interview on Thursday with someone originally from Hati;
He says its a pretty sorry place right now..

Utter sadness when I think about it. The other side of the island (Hispaniola) in
the Dominican Republic is much much better. The contrast was astonishing.

I posted a rant under this thread on why that is. Basically, it's
because the slaves were only able to hold onto half the island; the
French recaptured the other half. It always seemed to me that once the
slaves rebelled and threw off their white masters, they didn't want to
toil the land that they had so recently been tied to. An understandable
impulse-slaves on Hispaniola under the French were treated much worse
than slaves in the US ever were-but one that led to inescapable
wretchedness. The same thing is happening in Zimbabwe where Mugabe's
goons ran the whites off the land-the people who got the land didn't
want to work it, so the last I heard food shortages are getting
progressively worse.

Heard the same here about Zimbabwe, but even if Mugabe gets ousted, I doubt if things
will change very quickly, the die has been cast, and those who once worked the land
have fled.

It will be difficult to lure them back, and to attract investment into the country.

That has been the legacy of the whole of Africa for some time.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

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