- Reflections on Haiti and Democracy (February 29, 2004)
...ote – one President after June 30th , 2004 – really? The elected leader in Haiti has now been given a thumbs down by Washington. The power of the bullet is... - UN Security Council Authorizes Deployment of Multinational Force To Haiti (February 29, 2004)
...Night) SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES DEPLOYMENT OF MULTINATIONAL FORCE TO HAITI FOR 3 MONTHS, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1529 (2004) Declares R... - Two Centuries of Misery, Continued (February 13, 2004)
...undred years after it became the world’s first independent black republic, Haiti is in a dire state. As a French colony, it had enjoyed fabulous riches fro... - US, French Troops Start Peacekeeping Mission as Rebels Enter the Haitian Capital (March 1, 2004)
...PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - US Marines and French troops started their peacekeeping mission in volat... - Haiti's Lawyer: US Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries, Calls For UN Peacekeepers (February 25, 2004)
...The US lawyer representing the government of Haiti charged today that the US government is directly involved in a military co... - Haiti and the US Game (March 27, 2003)
...I returned from a week in Haiti just as the American president began his rain of destruction on Iraq, in t... - US Double Game in Haiti (February 16, 2004)
...Not quite a year ago, after returning from Haiti, I wrote for Z-net, "the United States government is playing the same game... - Iraq: The Beginning of Phase Three (March 22, 2004)
...hey have their hands full of it in Afghanistan, in Pakistan (by proxy), in Haiti, and in Kosovo. So long as America continues on the strategic offensive, i... - U.S. Blocks U.N. Rebuke of Israel for Assassination (March 23, 2004)
... mockery of the international legal system. ''The elected president of Haiti was driven from office, and the spiritual leader of Hamas, along with 10 c... - Peru Cancels US Joint Military Training Exercise (April 20, 2002)
...6, New Horizons exercises have been held in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Haiti, Belize, Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia and Jamaica, among other Latin Americ... - The Marines' 'How To' Handbook for Empire (April 13, 2004)
...ess.” Also under countries starting with “H” the Journal forgot to mention Haiti, where the Marines have intervened several times, destroying the economy a... - Regime Change (January 27, 2003)
...eral times to overthrow unfriendly powers from Panama to Afghanistan, from Haiti to Somalia. Deposing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, however, would be... - Land Warrior System to Improve Soldier's Ability on Battlefield (March 25, 2004)
...ad, or in the hills of Afghanistan in January with two feet of snow, or in Haiti with the humidity and mugginess." A prototype for the Land Warrior Sys... - Seoul: Another Enemy Capital (September 16, 2002)
...ifferent from the sort of warfare that characterized the peaceful years of Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, etc.), Americans remain unaware of how high a profile th... - US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe (March 8, 2002)
...terventionism of the Clinton administration in places such as the Balkans, Haiti and Somalia, but not to intervention in what Mr Bush regarded as America's... - History of Haiti
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Haiti
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Haiti is situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba. A former French colony, it was one of the first countries of the Americas, after the United States, to declare its independence. Its capital is Port-au-Prince.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and has been plagued by political violence and corrupt dictators for most of its history. Over three decades of dictatorship followed by military rule ended in 1990 when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president. Most of his term was usurped by a military coup d'etat, but he was able to return to office in 1994 and oversee the installation of a close associate to the presidency in 1996. Aristide won the 2000 presidential elections, which were boycotted by opposition groups. Protests against the government have continued since then, and have recently become more violent.
About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty. Nearly 70% of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, which consists mainly of small-scale subsistence farming and employs about two-thirds of the economically active work force. The country has experienced little job creation since President René Préval took office in February 1996, although the informal economy is growing. Failure to reach agreements with international sponsors have denied Haiti badly needed budget and development assistance.
In 2000, Aristide was elected in a process some claim was rigged. Resentment over this and widespread corruption boiled over on February 5, 2004, when a armed rebel group calling itself the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front took control of the Gonaïves police station. This rebellion then spread throughout the central Artibonite province by February 17 and was joined by opponents of the government who had been in exile in the Dominican Republic.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website. Not Wikified.
See also: Haitian Creole, Music of Haiti
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