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I am not living in no dream.

What you need to do is shake off your natural prejudice toward your homeland and start looking at all the evidence.

What railroad?

You can go dig Rue des Casernes and the remnants of a the tracks are still there.

Or you can consult Port-au-Prince en images as a start.

Or peharps if you go to Verrettes the old rusty cars are still there or you can ask the British Ambassador of those years Sir Spencer what he saw in Haiti in those years or the memoirs of Frederick Douglas.

In any case, I ain't worried about Aristide - or Duvalier; those are yesterday people.

I am looking at 200 years of history.

You can always check the Archives of the American Railraod Company 1910 - 1915. Or if you search in the Internet you may still find some old Haitian National Railroad bonds in auction; I saw one in Ebay a while ago. They don't teach history in Haiti but now you have the opportunity to learn by yourself.

A teacher trying to convince you Haiti is rich instead of telling it like it is is just wrong.

Forget about that. Yes there was a national railroad with station on the Portail unfortunately Aristide knocked it down. The Grand Riviere du Nord line is still there I believe although few Haitians know about it.
Anyway, 99% Haitians know very little about Haiti so....

Me, I just tell it like it is.

Rubens Titus, November 11 2007, 5:28 PM

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