Hurricane Matthew?
Jared Diamond's very interesting book Collapse has a section about Haiti compared to the Dominican Republic.
Haiti has struggled for a variety of reasons, but he claims French colonization and slavery was the biggest negative influence. Also their dry climate lead to poor agriculture and deforestation.
There were obviously more events that led to their current struggle, but I can't remember them all right now. The Haitians are not in the spot they are in because they are a godless voodo people like Pat Robertson claimed however. He actually said that.
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