Hallward, Damming the Flood — Chapter Notes See hallward damming the flood for overview and central argument.

Hallward, Damming the Flood — Chapter Notes See hallward damming the flood for overview and central argument. Introduction: "The Struggle for Haiti" The introduction opens with Hallward's framing premise: Haiti has been engaged in a sustained struggle between pèp la (the people, the poor) and the privileged minority that has always dominated it — a minority that controls roughly 90 percent of the country's resources with around 1 percent of its population. The Lavalas movement, which emerged in the 1980s, represented the most powerful challenge to this arrangement in Haitian history.