Haiti was the first Cuba-actually, Cuba is the second Haiti. Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance,and institutional development. Thus was Haiti punished by France,with the support of the other Western slave-owning nations. The French lifted their embargo after 21 years, extorting a massive Independence debt? for the loss of their "property"-which included members of the Haitian Cabinet. The US withheld recognition from Haiti for 58 years. Cuba has gone 48 years under the US embargo...">Haiti was the first Cuba-actually, Cuba is the second Haiti. Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance,and institutional development. Thus was Haiti punished by France,with the support of the other Western slave-owning nations. The French lifted their embargo after 21 years, extorting a massive Independence debt? for the loss of their "property"-which included members of the Haitian Cabinet. The US withheld recognition from Haiti for 58 years. Cuba has gone 48 years under the US embargo...">

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Cuba is the Second Haiti, Norman Girvan

Cuba is the Second Haiti, Norman Girvan<http://www.normangirvan.info/cuba-is-the-second-haiti-norman-girvan/>. On October 26 the United Nations General Assembly will debate the US embargo on Cuba. In these remarks I draw a parallel between the embargo and the economic isolation of Haiti after it declared its independence.

Haiti was the first Cuba-actually, Cuba is the second Haiti. Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance,and institutional development. Thus was Haiti punished by France,with the support of the other Western slave-owning nations. The French lifted their embargo after 21 years, extorting a massive Independence debt? for the loss of their "property"-which included members of the Haitian Cabinet. The US withheld recognition from Haiti for 58 years. Cuba has gone 48 years under the US embargo...

Continue reading Report to the General Assembly on the Cuban Embargo at:
<http://www.normangirvan.info/cuba-is-the-second-haiti-norman-girvan/cuba-ga-rep\ort-on-the-embargo-2010/>

Norman Girvan
UWI Trinidad & Tobago
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