Episode 009 Follow-up Notes

  1. The monarchs who funded Christopher Columbus were King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille, from Spain.
  2. Papa Doc was a contrast to Fidel Castro’s communist regime, not anti-communist.
  3. When the US military took control of the airport in Haiti, the evidence I was able to find in Beverly Bell’s book Fault Lines describes them as prioritizing their own planes, which delayed supply planes from other non-military organizations bringing in supplies.
  4. At around 31:00, we say “When we get to 2020…”; we meant to say “When we get to 2010…”.


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