ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the 2011–2020 Cholera epidemic in Haiti. It begins with the story of Ramsey, a development professional directly involved in the implementation of the Cholera response, and the much-overlooked community-led strand of the UN's flagship programme. In making sense of Haiti's challenges in this context, this chapter uses the matrix of domination in its entirety to illuminate how multiple domains of power work simultaneously to create the near impossibility of health in Haiti within the current global heath infrastructure. In each overlapping domain, narratives and logics of interventionism are maintained, leading to the production of partial solutions to complex problems. In truth, the story of Haiti could be the story of global health working many places in the majority world. It describes a country brought to its knees in part by the same forces of intervention that aimed to save it.
