Haiti's 1 Percent

[Matilda]

Eric Jean-Baptiste, owner of Père Eternel, Haiti's second-biggest lottery. He's a larger-than-life, self-styled entrepreneur from the Haitian middle class. Today there is not a block in the capital of Port-au-Prince or the entire country that does not have at least two or three lottery stands. The son of a leader in President François "Papa Doc" Duvalier's feared paramilitary force, the Tonton Macoutes, Jean-Baptiste has utter contempt for the mulatto elite that rules the core of the Haitian economy.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/12/haitis_1_percent#1

[TigerToMany]

1. The French apparently still think that Haiti is their colony

Is there a story about Haiti that doesn't mention the Caribbean nation's dubious honor of being "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere"? Few have ever heard about Haiti's wealthy elite, most of whom came to the island from France, Lebanon, Syria, Germany, or Jamaica at the beginning of the last century -- families that chose to invest in a country where nothing seems to endure.

It seems that colonization in Haiti is still going on at the hands of these white would-be overlords (Syrians and Lebanese are technically white - look at Assad).