>>I wish the people of Haiti would try to help themselves more than they do.
Haiti - formerly the French colony of Saint-Domingue - has been a mess ever since the slaves revolted circa 1791, and threw out all the whites, mulattoes and free blacks.
It used to be one of France's richest possessions, but needed slavery for the plantation system to work.
The slaves were taken from their own countries, deprived of their family structure and social structure, systematically mistreated, deprived of all human rights and dignity, and then after a horribly violent revolution, left on their own to cope as best they could.
And they've been unable to put themselves back together.
Despite billions upon billions of dollars worth of aid given by the rest of the world and for what? Haiti is lost.