[imintrouble]

Canada seems a more “likely” candidate to “rescue” Haiti - they adore Cuba (you should see the vacationer numbers of Canadians lolling in Cuba because of the U.S. embargo)....
why not with Haiti’s French heritage Canada would be the more likely nation to adopt a French vacation paradise filled with people who could bolster Canada’s population.

Jus sayn...

[Ax]

I was a liberal arts grad (history, polisci) so I don't have a whole lot of understanding about engineering. We DO know that the country has been deforested. Why can't WE (obviously THEY won't or can't do it) plant hundreds of thousands of new trees? Or dig canals and little dams that would sluice the rainwater out of the cities and out to the ocean? It'd be a great opportunity for some entrepreneur to start importing enormous amounts of Kingsford charcoal since for generations the Haitians have been deforesting their country for firewood.

I was stationed in Havana when Clinton was poised to invade Haiti in 1994. I believe it was CNN or The Weather Channel that ran a story about Haiti's topography. It is affected by the cordillera that separates Haiti from the Dominican Republic; Haiti is drier than the DomRep. According to them Haiti was twice cursed: one by nature and the other by institutionalized corruption. Pauvre Haiti!