The hate and the quake: Part II http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/63104

Continuing on from his first article, ‘The hate and the quake’, Hilary Beckles portrays in detail the crimes that have been committed on Haiti by Western imperial powers. In so doing, Beckles produces a new lens through which Haiti’s history must be told. He tells of a Haiti punished for its pioneering efforts at freedom and democracy.

For Beckles, ‘Never before has a nation done so much good and in turn received so much evil. Never before in history have a people given so much liberty and freedom to the world, for which it should live in credit, but has been driven to dwell for decades in the deep despair of debt.’ The recent earthquake, Beckles argues, has served to turn the world’s eyes onto Haiti and expose the history that has been covered up for centuries.