In Case You Were Wondering Why Haiti Had Suffered So Much Throughout History

Is it the history of colonialism, foreign military intervention, and occupation? Nope. Endemic poverty? Nope. Corruption and elite capture? Nope.

It's 'cuz they swore a pact with the Devil.

Pat Robertson on Haiti Disaster
by burghnews

Haiti Can't Catch a Break

I don't really have anything interesting or insightful to say about the earthquake in Haiti. I just find it incredibly depressing that, according to this Newshour report I watched the night before last, the country had finally achieved a modicum of stability and, perhaps, a window in which in might be able to move, as one government official puts it in the clip, from misery into poverty.