Reddit reviews An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President

Democracy does need stability and education, but you should know that the UN mission was brought in to Haiti as a response to the rebellion that occurred after the twice democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (elected in 1990 and 2000, here's the electoral data) was removed in a coup d'état (by rebels who carried US arms and had links to certain figures among the Haitian elite, linked to the Duvalierists) in 2004, and flown to the Central African Republic on an unmarked US airplane; the CAR has no diplomatic ties with Haiti, and Aristide's release was negotiated after a few tense days by Randall Robinson (he documents the negotiation in this book), US congresswoman Maxine Waters, and others. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! went with them (see Democracy Now archives for coverage). When Aristide returned to the Carribean, the US state department threated any nation that accepted him with sanctions. As a result, he spent 7 years in South Africa in exile, and returned just a few weeks ago.

The thing is, the UN mission has not only brought cholera to Haiti, but was also used to carry out political assassinations (NSFL) in the uprising following the coup in 2004. This article also goes into the political assassination aspect a little as well.

It's a very very complex situation with a lot of messy history. Weirdly, the US is very close to Haiti, but there seems to be almost no coverage in US media of the culture, the issues, the history of US-Haiti relations.

So I actually encourage you to look a little more deeply into your assumptions about what the international community is doing in Haiti, and look into the history a little more.