Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment UPDATE:Default Title and perhaps the impossibility of

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Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment UPDATE:Default Title and perhaps the impossibility ofAuthor Contributor(s): Hallward, Peter Publisher: Verso Date: 12 27 2010 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas (the flood) sought to liberate the island from decades of US backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the