The Slaughter of Haiti’s Pigs

In 1979, a swine virus outbreak occurred in the Dominican Republic. Still, the situation would had a drastic effect in Haiti as a US-Canada-Mexico partnership led to 1.3 million of their Kreyol pigs been slaughtered, forever changing the country

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame First Edition by Paul Farmer

  • From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

  • Haiti, State Against Nation: Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  • Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy by Elizabeth Abbott

  • Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 by Matthew J. Smith

  • The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Duke University

ACADEMIC PAPERS

  • Haiti’s ‘Republic of NGOs’ by Mark Schuller

  • Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Duvalierism by David Nicholls

  • Manufacturing Corporate Landscapes: The Case of Agrarian Displacement and Food (In)Security in Haiti by Marylynn Steckleya and Yasmine Shamsi

  • Pigs, Peasants, and Politics in Haiti: Migdal's Theory of Peasant Participation in National Politics and the Fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier by Greg Asbed

  • Women, Sabotaj, and Underground Food Economies in Haiti by Myron M. Beasley

PODCAST

  • Real Dictators: The Voodoo Tyrant Real Dictators

  • Behind The Bastards: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti

DOCUMENTARY

  • Papa Doc: Haiti's President for Life

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