Bursting the Dam of Containment

A review of Peter Hallward’s Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (Verso, 2007). Haiti has never had a period without interference in its sovereignty. Indeed Haiti’s history could be seen as one long, heroic struggle against such interference: first to overthrow the slavers and colonizers of France (and the rest of … Continue reading Bursting the Dam of Containment