{"id":297358,"date":"2021-09-03T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213317"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:50:13","slug":"haiti-and-the-debt-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/03\/haiti-and-the-debt-of-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti and the Debt of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti\u2019s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing \u201cproperty rights\u201d over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout \u201clight skinned\u201d local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part of the story. After  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/haiti-and-the-debt-of-independence\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/haiti-and-the-debt-of-independence\/\">Haiti and the Debt of Independence<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/haiti-and-the-debt-of-independence\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti\u2019s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing \u201cproperty rights\u201d over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout \u201clig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297769,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297358\/revisions\/297769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}