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For those interested in learning more about why Haiti is so impoverished, Junot Díaz wrote a great and powerful piece a few years ago in the Boston Review.

"Haiti’s nightmarish vulnerability has to be understood as part of a larger trend of global inequality."

[1]: http://bostonreview.net/junot-diaz-apocalypse-haiti-earthqua...

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Maybe the American led coup d'état in 2004[1] has something to do with their misfortunes. Or the CIA involvement in the 1991 coup d'état. Or the occupation by the US in 1915-1934[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Ha...

The whole paragraph that ends the previous section is, to me, more salient than the quoted sentence itself. Haiti is a microcosm of world iniquity, but it is also a very special hell created by the powers that were (and the powers that be). A better way to state the sentence may be "Haiti’s nightmarish vulnerability has to be understood as [the future] trend of global inequality [for all of us]".

> iniquity,

accidentally relevant typo

> but it is also a very special hell created by the powers that were

not very special, though.. so many improverished/war-torn nations have a similar story with different character names.

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