Positive intervention or how to fix other ailing countries/regions.

[Montmorency]

I'm not going to be able to give detailed and informed commentary on how to form entanglements with any given country, so reposted expert analyses are probably better suited for this space.

Haiti AFAIK hardly has any capitalist economy, being even poorer than most of Africa. What economy it does have is purely exploitative and extractive, being the residual of the old plantation system, and the typical mining interests that gravitate to poor countries.

Being so close to the United States, the only obvious formula is that it be integrated into the lower end of some US supply chain - something that doesn't involve pulling out the most valuable working population as immigrants. A more immediate priority is upgrading Haiti's educational, medical, and transportation infrastructure, since they don't yet meet those prerequisites for mutualistic engagement in international commerce.

While it's true that Haiti has little in the way of legitimate government, any imposed caretaker government will be, if not corrupt, then inevitably disconnected and unaccountable. From all the US and UN interventions Haiti has seen over the past century we know that a foreign occupation can easily stultify domestic institutions by restricting the impulse and opportunity for self-government to build itself. How a balanced and sustainable environment can be bootstrapped is a critical question.

It's funny that if Haiti hadn't scared all the whites with its original rebellion, instead receiving freedom by some French or British dispensation, we wouldn't have screwed it over nearly as much. Maybe only as much as Cuba even. And to think they had to pay the slavers reparations anyway in the end.