Hurricane recovery! Ha what a f-ing joke. Fact is France doesn't even want to help these people anymore, not wanting to help themselves. Good thing for the United Nations. They had a military convoy of medical supplies, food, water and whatever that was enroute to PAP area via the northern/Dominican line. Never made it, was ambushed and the drivers were killed, the truck and there contents never made it. Story goes the police/military people were the ones involved. Haiti made it's bed along time ago, now with the normal corruption of the police and government have lesser a chance of ever making head way. Have to laugh, the US and other investors building these mega resorts near the capital and trying to bring back the economy. Are they crazy or what?? The locals will rob the tourists! A country with no future, no infrastructure, no law, no government, no nothing but they bring in tourism? How long to you think AA will make those flights 3 days a week from MIA with a quarter of the plane full. How long will it take the people to figure out that the price they are paying for their A/I and airfare is the same as the other 1000 islands in the Caribbean?? Stupid people. Hate to say it, but Haiti is destin.
France never truly wanted to help Haiti. The first time a French head of state visited Haiti was in 2010, after the earthquake, by Zarkozy. Haiti separated from France 206 years earlier. A major catastrophe had to take place for a Frenc head of state to even consider stepping foot on
Saint-Domingue. That's nothing more than one big SMH (
Shake
my
head).
I always compare that to Spain. The King of Spain visits the DR practically yearly. Yes, most of those visits are not official but rather recreational, but the point is that the Spanish Royal Family has a presence in the DR at least once a year. Many top Dominican families are close friends with the Spanish Royalty, and the Spanish Crown even has investments in the DR.
To make matters more interesting, the very first time a Spanish king and queen left Spain was in the 1970's by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. The very first country they visited was Dominican Republic. You can see photos of this historic event here (
La primera visita a Am?rica de S.M. Juan Carlos I y Sofia, reyes de Espa?a).
I think that says a lot between how badly Haiti is treated even by the country that basically gave birth to them (granted, a very painful birth). Dr Delia Blanco, she is based in Santo Domingo and is very much into the Afro-French everything, I call her the Spanish-Basque Mountainannie (lol); says that the French feel a sense of shame and responsibility for the disgrace of Haiti. Its once most precious territory reduced to what it has become. The French feel so bad about creating Haiti, that they prefer to not even look over there, to simply ignore it, to pretend they had nothing to do with that. Even though Dr Blanco is of Spanish origin, she did grow up in France; so, she knows the French from the inside out.
When the DR was blatantly attacked for the regularization plan, the very first ambassador/government to publicly say that they stand with the DR was Spain! After that, a few other countries came out of the woodwork and also expressed their support towards the DR; but, the very first was Spain. The way it should be. Spain always supports the DR, at least from what I have noticed.
When was the last time France supported Haiti on anything?
The Spanish king himself assist every single Dominican presidential initiation (and the presidents of every other Hispanic country, even Equatorial Guinea which is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa), when was the last time a French head of state was present at the initiation of any Haitian prime minister? These are symbolic acts that says a lot.
Even Jamaica was visited by the Royal Family of Great Britain, for Pete's sake!
In colonial times the French were known as some of the most vicious of slave owners and now I guess we can say they are very
jodones with the descendants of the slaves that once produced a third of France's wealth. Very bad treatment, if you ask me. Aaah, must be the French way of doing things.