Haiti: 200th anniversary of the illegitimate debt imposed by France

Frantz Fanon Foundation «The President of the Republic again mocks history by referring to the spirit of 1789 and its principles, which he describes as ‘universal’. He denies the facts; among other things, the historical truth that none of the Africans torn from their continent and enslaved in the French colonies was freed from this inhuman slavery in 1789. A door opened in 1794 and closed quickly. They would have to wait until 1848, and for som…