How narcotics trafficking is the serpent the eats any chance of Haiti becoming a stable state.
In the 1980's, the Columbian Drug cartels began using Haiti as a base for drug trafficking, they have never left, and, indeed, have prospered by corrupting successive governments. It is likely that the current revolt in Haiti is little more than a drug war between the Duvalierists and Aristide, now himself a drug kingpin.