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Woy! is a good outlet for news on #Haiti that doesn't succumb to Western ideas of Haiti as a blight on the Western hemisphere. This recent title hits with a proverb that easily explains Western propaganda: in order to have you justify their violence, they'll (centrist news, politicans and everyone in-between) tell you what they need to have you cheer on their violence.

https://open.substack.com/pub/woymag/p/le-yo-vle-touye-chen-yo-di-l-fou

The Haitian people and the Haitian state are two completely different beings and the rarest time they aligned was when the only elected president in its 200-year history, Aristide, was elected (and then deposed by the United States two decades ago: https://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/17/exclusive_aristide_talks_with_democracy_now)