Hello to whomever reads this! As a second post I'd like to start with a current event, the earthquake in Haiti. So far it's the 7th most devastating earthquake on record. The UN has branded the country as 'decapitated' since most of the infrastructure needed to run a country has collapsed. Hopefully aid will rush in a fast as it did in 2005 in Sumatra (GB£4.3 billion/US$7 billion donated worldwide), I'll be watching the rebuilding closely.
I've just read a very good article on the BBC talking about the long history of relations between the US and Haiti, very rocky if you ask me! This history lesson seems to be another attempt by the US to expand power and influence without using the word 'colony'. Just look at Puerto Rico, they actually have a say in the US elections and seem stuck between independence and being a US state; if anyone argues it's a 'commonwealth', so are Virginia, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. At least they get a star on the flag!
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