Voodoo Intersection: Poverty, Crime and Disease in Haiti

Potions that turn people into zombies. Poisons that are biological weapons any terrorist would envy. Bloody, sacrificial ceremonies that appease malevolent spirits. These are the tools of the voodoo practitioner. These are the sources of all Haiti's trouble. In 1804 Haiti became the first black led republic in the world and the first nation in Latin America to win its independence, yet today its population is far worse off than it was two hundred years ago. How could that be? Voodoo Intersection shows how Haitian voodoo beliefs and practices have caused the devastating poverty, crime and disease in Haiti today, and it provides valuable new insight into the long term plight of a once proud and noble Haitian culture.