Caribbean

Welcome to Haiti. Wherever they go, they will make Haiti. by David Sims IT DOESN’T TAKE an earthquake. Not where Haiti is concerned. It has had billions of dollars’ worth of aid from America, from Canada, and from Europe in foreign aid over the years. America rebuilt Haiti’s entire…

“THE WORD ‘slave’ is used in this exhibition,” notes a wall text at “Jews in the Caribbean: Four Centuries of History in Suriname and Curacao” at Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum. “The museum is aware of the controversial nature of this term. ‘Slaves,’ as used here, refers to African men,…