books.google.ca - Once the most lucrative European colony in the Caribbean, Haiti has longbeen one of the most divided and impoverished countries in the world. In thelate 1980s a remarkable popular mobilization known as Lavalas, or 'the flood,'sought to liberate the island from decades of US-backed dictatorial rule. Afterwinning...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Damming_the_flood.html?id=tGkjAQAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDamming the flood