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Article: Haiti's Overpopulation Crisis
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 24, 1994
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Bradley Graham's Oct. 9 news story, "U.S. Pessimistic About
Democracy in Haiti," pointed out correctly that none of the chronic
obstacles to democratic rule in that country has been removed by
U.S. intervention or is likely to be. But it didn't identify the one
basic obstacle to democratic rule that has caused all the others:
Haiti is one of the most overpopulated countries on earth.
The United States has a population density of 70 persons per
square mile. World population density is 100, Cuba's is 235 and
China's is 325. Haiti's population density is almost 600 people per
square mile. Even if the population of the world reaches the
pessimistic projection of 15 billion people, it will ...