Excellent piece- most Americans have no clue that the Haitians had to "BUY" their freedom from France - a drain on Haitian economic prosperity for decades upon decades - and the USA was complicit by letting our banks buy that Haitian debt from France.

As to the current situation, my suggestion is a UN Peacekeeping force made up of African French speaking soldiers to bring stability to the nations. Having black french speakers removes the taint of a colonialist peacekeeping forc