Damming the Flood keyword-social-anthropology Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work

Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work

In this wide-ranging and incisive collection

Fernando Claudín

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Damming the Flood keyword-social-anthropology Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed workLong before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in the late 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas (the flood) sought to liberate the island from decades of US backed dictatorial rule. Damming the Flood analyzes how and why the Lavalas governments led by President Jean Bertrand Aristide were overthrown, in 1991 and again in 2004, by the