Response to Haiti's "Pact With the Devil"

During the 1970s, I knew Ray Joseph, the current Haitian ambassador to the U.S., when he was founding and running an important Haitian community, anti-Duvalier, newspaper in New York (he also worked for the Wall Street Journal). He's been featured often and well on TV this week, and last night he replied to Pat Robertson's claim that Haiti was suffering partly because it had made a "pact with the devil" related to how it got its independence.

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