Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas ("the flood") sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed...
In exploring how Haiti became a laboratory for a new 'politics of containment', Peter Hallward examines the rise, rule and collapse of Aristide's administration, and events since he was forced into exile.