The story of Haiti will help you realize why there is so much backlash against the West. It is one of the harshest examples of a nation founded on the deceit of colonizers. In the early 19th century, the French demanded a ransom for Haiti's independence through military extortion. Haiti accepted, but that isn't what created a sinkhole of debt it would never escape from. The French pushed loans on the government to pay off the ransom, dealing a double below to a nation struggling to get off the ground, similar to the way the US and other Western nations "funded" the development of liberated countries in Africa and elsewhere after colonialism collapsed during the 20th century. The loans that Western banks push on underdeveloped nations have a way of stifling their development, often through military intervention, terrorism, or Western-backed coups. I suspect Papa Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator who overthrew its democracy once it got going, was trained by the CIA to keep Haiti in poverty by allocating labor to US firms. Little known is the fact that during World War I, as allies of the French, we invaded Haiti to assist in their exploitation. Once we got involved, the formula became eerily evident as Cuba and other nations in Latin America held quasi-elections making it seem like they were liberated, only to be overthrown by dictators who facilitated foreign debt because they were offered weapons, power, and wealth by the aggressors. Papa Doc fits the trend considering he was educated in the US, disappeared for some time, and de-legitimized elections to implement authoritarianism and terror at about the same time many other colonized nations were gaining their "freedom".
Source: New York Times. The Ransom. May 22, 2022. Catherine Porter, Constant Meheut, Matt Apuzo, Selam Gebrekidam.
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