Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Why Haiti is poor

Haiti is poor for many things.

1)There are groups of rich people that control half of the countries wealth.

2)Europeans dictators stole money from the country and left the people very poor.

3)Outside forces stop Haiti from advancing or from improving.

4)French Plantation owners get REALLY rich by working the slavs in haiti to death.

5)Haiti started to gr H.I.V(aids).

6)Soil erosion had killed all the mangroves, and coral reefs.

7)U.S.A took over Haiti.

8)Haiti had to go thtough a civil war.

9)Haiti started to cut down there forets to make charcoal.

10)After independence, haiti was struggling with corruption.

1 comment:

Michael said...

Nice work here, Nathan. You've certainly picked up many pieces from your independent research. I'm wondering about #3...who are the outside forces and what did they do?

mh