Haiti will experience a pattern of political…

Haiti will experience a pattern of political instability and struggle from 1843 to 1915 in which a succession of incompetent or brutal leaders come and go rapidly and violently.

Of the twenty-two heads of state between 1843 and 1915, only one will serve out his prescribed term of office.

Three will die while serving.

One will be blown up in the palace, one will be poisoned, one will be hacked to pieces by a mob, one will resign, and fourteen others will be deposed by coups.