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philistinetoday at 7:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Haiti's democracy was never, in its storied 200 years of existence, functioning. France saw fit it never did until the damage was irreparable.


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Synaesthesiatoday at 8:20 AM

I'm referring to the ascendance of Bertrand Aristide. Now he was quickly removed but it was a remarkable triumph of grassroots democracy.