This short article summarizes the essence of Haiti's prospects for the future:
Even before the earthquake that devastated Port au Prince, Haiti had ran out of options.
Never mind that the Jekyll and Hyde policies of the US towards this poor country*, resulting in myopic, ideological and irrelevant interventionist ploys never helped but rather hindered the possibility of alternative development. These "helpful" efforts go back to the beginning of the last century if not before.
*Within recent memory alone: Bill Clinton wanting to keep Aristide in power at all costs, G.W.Bush wanting to get rid of Aristide at all , costs, etc.
Leadership is not as much of a problem as is the overpopulation on a piece of land devoid of resources and without the environment to sustain such a large population relative to the land size. For comparison, imagine the US minus the green, the natural resources, the water, the rich soil and with 3 billion inhabitants. That would be Haiti on a large scale.
While in the future science and technology may produce solutions, the current population cannot place its hopes or live to see such eventualities. The only practical, sensible solution, who some will surely condemn as racist or too radical would seem to be that offered by Dr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal :
That is, to relocate the population of Haiti in whole or in part to Senegal where quality land would be made available to them, although it is likely that most Haitians would prefer to relocate to the US rather than return to their ancestral land, but that is another story.
Manuel Sotil
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