Anonymous, "Infrastructure Arrested", contributed by Guilberly Louissaint, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 25 January 2019, accessed 24 January 2025. http://centerforethnography.org/content/infrastructure-arrested
Critical Commentary
Figure 3.” Since 2013, the $2.1 million sewage treatment plant at Titanyen has been closed. The lining of one of the disinfecting basins developed massive bubbles due to an engineering defect”.-Marie Arago for NPR.
Within the Haitian imaginary infrastructure is arrested, millions of dollars have been allocated in attempts to build infrastructure such as sewage plants. Due to corruption and engineering issues, many of those projects failed. During the 1930s, Haiti experienced an infrastructural boom attempt to build roads, and canals but due to misuse of funds and many workers worked under hazardous conditions with no compensation triggered protest and uprisings. The question of infrastructure in Haiti tends to be situated in Haitian Exceptionalist ideas(Citandre).