Chapter 12 Reflection

In chapter 12 of Mountains Beyond Mountains, it describes how the junta's power is getting stronger and the U.S. relations to junta from Farmer's book. While Haiti's body count was rising Farmer decided to write a book about the history of American policy toward Haiti. For instance Farmer recognizes that " during the American occupation, the U.S. Congress had reconstituted the modern Haitian army and helped to finance it right up until the time when it deposed Aristide ; that the head of junta's death had been trained at Fort Benning's School of Americas." As much as we do not want to think about it, it seems that the U.S. has helped the junta a lot for them to gain so much power. This power took a major toll on Haiti and Farmer.