The Slaughter of Haiti’s Pigs

In 1979, a swine virus outbreak occurred in the Dominican Republic. Still, the situation would had a drastic effect in Haiti as a US-Canada-Mexico partnership led to 1.3 million of their Kreyol pigs been slaughtered, forever changing the country.

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer

• From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

• Haiti, State Against Nation: Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

• Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy by Elizabeth Abbott

• Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 by Matthew J. Smith

• The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Duke University

ACADEMIC PAPERS

• Haiti’s ‘Republic of NGOs’ by Mark Schuller

• Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Duvalierism by David Nicholls

• Manufacturing Corporate Landscapes: The Case of Agrarian Displacement and Food (In)Security in Haiti by Marylynn Steckleya and Yasmine Shamsi

• Pigs, Peasants, and Politics in Haiti: Migdal's Theory of Peasant Participation in National Politics and the Fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier by Greg Asbed

• Women, Sabotaj, and Underground Food Economies in Haiti by Myron M. Beasley

PODCAST

• Real Dictators: The Voodoo Tyrant Real Dictators

• Behind The Bastards: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti

DOCUMENTARY

• Papa Doc: Haiti's President for Life