Notorious American televangelist Pat Robertson recently revealed that the suffering of the Haitians owes its origins to a pact the former slaves made with the Devil prior to an uprising against their French masters in 1791.
Letters from Satan himself have appeared elsewhere in the blogosphere resenting this defamation of character. He says that the deal is he only gives his converts a bad time after they've died, and keeps his part of the bargain by giving them a good time this side of the curtain. That's the deal.
Meanwhile, the soul of Pat Robertson has gone up for sale on EBay for you to do what you will with - in the form of a voodoo doll that you can stick pins in, flush down the loo or whatever (Proceeds to Médecins Sans Frontières). Accessories included with the doll are "Pat's very own Holy Bible, and Bag of money taken from real Americans!"
This morning it was removed by EBay as the seller "could not verify the existence of Pat Robertson's soul". (Well, so the story goes). But I think the product has been amended (er, how?) and is back up there again.
Personally, I'd have thought at least part of the reason for the Haitians poor infrastructure is the fact that the tiny country still carries $890 million of international debt.
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I subsequently learned that the Haitians did do a deal with the Devil - in the form of the French colonial government. The French extracted a promise of compensation for the loss of their sugar plantations - a debt which Haiti only succeeded in paying off 156 years later in 1947.
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