AFTER 200 YEARS OF BEES, LET’S HAVE
200 years of honey.” So proposed a
T-shirt issued by the Haitian government
at the end of 2003 to celebrate the
impending bicentennial of independence and
freedom from slavery. But with no honey in
sight, there wasn’t much to celebrate, as antigovernment
violence coupled with a dismal
economy stifled any potential revelry.