How France Indebted Haiti, Twice




The Brian Lehrer Show show

Summary: Catherine Porter, international correspondent for the <em>New York Times</em>, and Selam Gebrekidan, investigative reporter for <em>The New York Times</em> based in London, discuss what happened when France demanded reparations from formerly enslaved Haitians to their French slaveholders and how it has impacted Haiti's economy to this day.