As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deport ...

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It was not diplomacy either. It was extortion. Forced to borrow 30 million francs from French banks to make the first two payments, it was hardly a surprise to anyone when Haiti defaulted soon ...

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This debt, which was soon multiplied by astronomical interest rates that benefited French banks and was finally paid off in the 1950s, has heavily burdened the impoverished country, which ...

It took Haiti 122 years to pay this evil tax through French banks and the US Citibank. The French ransom tax was paid off in 1947 leaving the Haitian economy in poor shape. But tragically ...

The French government required the country to borrow 30 million francs from French banks to make the first two payments, and Haiti soon defaulted. In 1838, another French expedition of 12 warships ...

To meet this demand, Haiti was forced to take out substantial loans from French banks, creating what historians refer to as a “double debt.” The loans boosted French banks while dragging Haiti into ...

To meet the demand, Haiti borrowed heavily from French banks. Interest and commissions mounted for more than a century. Payments continued until the 1950s. In a 2022 investigation, The New York Times ...

Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the central bank could have less flexibility to quickly cushion the economy from the fallout of President ...

Forced to borrow 30 million francs from French banks to make the first two payments, it was hardly a surprise to anyone when Haiti defaulted soon thereafter. Still, a subsequent French king sent ...