The causes of centralization in Haiti can be traced back a century.
Haiti was once primarily rural, with its major economic activity distributed among several ports along the northern, western and southern coasts.
But after the United States invaded in 1915, the Americans began to concentrate most trade operations in Port-au-Prince, the site of their military headquarters.
The port was dredged to make room for big new steamships; other major ports, to the north and west, began to lose their importance.
By the middle of the 1960s, François Duvalier had shut down the other ports entirely as part of an effort to concentrate his power base in the capital.
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