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htf you divide an Island into two countries yo
The spanish had the whole island at one point. Once the spanish set the eyes on a muxh more lavish place called Mexico(and others), they left small amount of soldiers/enforcer on the haiti side.

The french came and took over that side of the island (before they and Spanish came to a "agreement")


Thats just the basics.
 
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5 year commemoration of Haitian earthquake: 1/4 of a million lives lost

Three years after a massive earthquake ravaged Haiti, President Michel Martelly said Saturday the country was slowly rebuilding, despite the ongoing day-to-day misery of many survivors.
An estimated 250,000 people were killed in the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Hundreds of thousands are still living rough in squalid makeshift camps, and they now face rampant crime, a cholera outbreak and the occasional hurricane.

"I bow in memory of the victims. I can still hear the cries of pain from families who lost loved ones, but dry your tears," a visibly moved Martelly said on the grounds of the presidential palace, which collapsed in the quake.

"Despite all the suffering, Haiti is recovering."

Government ministers, officials and diplomats attended the somber memorial ceremony in the capital Port-au-Prince, at which a police siren rang out in honor of the dead.

While the presidential palace had been reduced to a heap of stone and metal, "the flag remains aloft and proud," Martelly said, vowing to rebuild his impoverished Caribbean country from the ground up.

The president was due to lay a wreath later in the day at a mass grave north of Port-au-Prince where the remains of tens of thousands of people are buried.

Residents of the capital flocked to the city's churches, signing mournful hymns in memory of lost loved ones.

The rebuilding process has been slow in Haiti, which was already one of the world's poorest countries when disaster struck three years ago.


Beyond the presidential palace, several other ministries remain in ruins and unusable. The parliament has been razed and Port-au-Prince's cathedral has been reduced to rubble. Other churches and schools were destroyed.

In tough comments to journalists on the eve of Saturday's anniversary, Martelly said he was "not satisfied" with progress, and urged foreign donors to have more faith in his administration to lead reconstruction efforts.

"Where has the money given to Haiti after the earthquake gone?" he said late Friday, charging that only a third of the international aid recorded so far was actually handed over to the Haitian government, urging an overhaul.

"Most of the aid was used by non-governmental organizations for emergency operations, not for the reconstruction of Haiti.

"Let's look this square in the eye so we can implement a better system that yields results," he added.

The European Union on Friday pledged another $40.7 million in help, with aid commissioner Kristalina Georgievasaying the bloc "remains committed to helping Haitians in need and the country with its reconstruction."

In the past two years, hundreds of housing units have been built, and the government has set up shop in pre-fabricated buildings, the best option until ministries can be rebuilt. But the reconstruction process has been slow.

"We have recorded damages of nearly $13 billion," said Martelly, who came to power in the nation of 9.8 million people a little over a year after the quake.

"My dream is to see the country turn into a sprawling construction site."

In the streets of Port-au-Prince, however, Haitians say they have waited long enough.

"If our leaders don't do something to get us out of these tents, we will take to the streets one day," said Jacky, an unemployed father of three.

Ary Adam, who is in charge of the office tasked with the reconstruction of public buildings and housing, said Haiti needs 400,000 homes to house the 1.5 million people left homeless by the quake.

But the money is not there. Adam says private investment may be a solution, but not in the short term.
 

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been reading about political rumblings lately. hope it doesn't get drastic like Haiti can get.

Haiti enters uncertain political phase as parliament dissolved
By Amelie Baron

PORT-AU-PRINCE Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:17pm EST

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Haiti's President Michel Martelly addresses the audience during a memorial held for the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Titanyen, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince January 12, 2015.

Credit: Reuters/Marie Arago




(Reuters) - The Haitian parliament was dissolved on Tuesday after the failure of last-ditch negotiations for a deal to extend the terms of its members to avert a political crisis in the Caribbean country.

Haiti has not held legislative or municipal elections for three years, and the lack of a working parliament effectively leaves President Michel Martelly to rule by decree.

Martelly launched last-minute negotiations, but failed to convince a group of opposition senators to approve a U.S.-sanctioned plan to extend parliamentary terms for several months until new elections can be held.

On Tuesday, the United Nations "Core Group," which includes countries working closely with Haiti, such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, and the European Union, issued a statement saying it "deplores the fact that the Haitian parliament has become dysfunctional," while offering its support for Martelly.

"In these exceptional circumstances, the 'Core Group' trusts that the Executive and all the political actors will act with responsibility and restraint," it added.

Martelly, whose term in office runs out next year, last month tried to calm opposition critics by appointing former Port-au-Prince Mayor Evans Paul as the new prime minister, but the parliament shunned his pick and refused to ratify him.

"I was expecting to be invited by the parliament. It did not happen, but it's not me who refused to introduce myself," Paul said in an interview. Now as de facto prime minister, he said he still planned to try to form a new government.

"I've started consultations with political parties to compose my government, but the consensus is not easy to get," he said.

For weeks, opponents to Martelly have mounted street protests in the capital accusing the president and his family of corruption. The demonstrations took a more aggressive turn in recent days, with some protesters calling for a civil war.

On Monday, Haiti marked the fifth anniversary of a devastating earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people in the capital. Many Haitians are still homeless.

On Sunday, with negotiations were still underway to avoid an institutional vacuum, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti issued a statement offering its support to Martelly.

"The U.S. will continue to work with President Martelly and whatever legitimate Haitian government institutions remain to safeguard the significant gains we have achieved together since the January 12, 2010 earthquake," it said.

In a weekend interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Paul said he had to work on securing the trust of the international community.

"It's not easy because the crisis of confidence is based on a tradition of people not keeping to their word."

The country's political divisions have led to a "chaotic atmosphere," he said in an interview at the prime minister's official residence late on Saturday as street protests continued.

It is unclear when new legislative and municipal elections can be held.

A tentative agreement late last month would have extended the terms of the deputies until April 24, and senators until Sept. 9, allowing time to pass an electoral law and appoint an elections council.

The political accord had been favorably received by Haiti's largest foreign donors, particularly the United States and the UN, which have expressed concern that the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is again on the brink of political chaos.

The UN Tuesday called on all parties "to organize, as soon as technically feasible, inclusive, fair, transparent and equitable elections in 2015," said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.

Haiti is scheduled to hold presidential elections at the end of the year.

(Writing by David Adams, editing by G Crosse)



Haiti parliament leaders seek common position out of political crisis
The president of Haiti’s lower chamber of deputies said he plans to meet Thursday with Senate President Simon Desras in hopes of finding “a common position” on ending a crippling political crisis that has triggered growing anti-government protests.


Turmoil in Haiti: Street politics | The Economist





A body of a man that was shot dead lies in the streets of Port-au-Prince during an anti-government demonstration in downtown Port au Prince, Haiti on Saturday December 13, 2014. Police say they are investigating the circumstances of the death.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article5272521.html#storylink=cpy
 

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remember all those phony pledges of help from the western nations after the earthquake? all talk and no action.



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Major power boost for Haiti as Chinese firm agrees to finance $240m dam
10 February 2015 | By David Rogers

A memorandum of understanding was signed yesterday (pictured) between Chinese contractor Sinohydro and the Haitian government that opens the way to the construction of a $240m hydroelectric power station, which will be largely finance by Chinese money.
Evans Paul, the prime minister of Haiti, commented on the government’s website: “We have been trying to build this dam for the past 39 years. Now the Artibonite 4C will have a big impact on the regional economy and its productivity.”

The government estimates that the dam will create 7,500 jobs, irrigate 3,500ha of land and boost agricultural production by at least $10m a year.

The Artibonite 4C dam will add 32MW to the country’s installed capacity of about 270MW. It is estimated that the project could provide electricity for as many as a million people in 200,000 households.

Currently the Haitian electricity system, which reaches about 12% of the island’s population, is mostly provided by ageing infrastructure that is inefficient and expensive to maintain.

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Haiti’s Artibonite river, which offers the prospect of renewable electricity for 200,00 homes (Wikimedia Commons)

The early work on the dam was financed by grants of $1.5m from the Inter-American Development Bank and $2.5m from the government of Brazil. A feasibility study was carried out by the Brazilian army, and the government pledged $40m towards the final cost.

However, the Ministry of Public Works then struggled to find funding for the project from aid donors or development funders, until the Chinese stepped in with an offer to provide the money to build the scheme.

Construction is expected to take between 36 and 42 months. One problem facing the project is a cholera epidemic that has followed the course of the Artibonite River.

The disease, which is thought to have been introduced by a Nepalese soldier in a UN peacekeeping unit, has affected 720,000 Haitians and killed almost 9,000. The UN has estimated that eradicating the disease will take 10 years and cost $2.2bn.

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Aristide’s ex-security chief killed in Haiti

03/02/2015 7:54 PM

By Jacqueline Charles

Oriel Jean, the former security chief of ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide whose testimony in U.S. courts a decade ago helped take down key figures in Haiti’s drug trafficking underworld, was shot to death Monday in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti National Police Spokesman Gary Desrosiers confirmed Jean’s murder between Delmas 29 and 30 neighborhoods not far from the international airport. Desrosiers said he was shot twice by three men on a motorcycle. News of Jean’s death and photos of his bullet-riddled body lying face down in a pool of blood on the street quickly spread through social media.

A friend of Jean’s who declined to be named for fear of reprisals told the Miami Herald that Jean was riding with a Dominican co-worker when the vehicle was struck from behind by a motorcycle. Jean was gunned down after he stepped out of the vehicle to check the damage.

“Nothing happened to the Dominican guy. He (Jean) was the main target,” the friend said.

In 2005, Jean was released after serving half of a six-years sentence in a money-laundering plea deal after helping the U.S. Attorney’s Office convict several Haitians and Colombians of moving tons of Colombian cocaine through Haiti to the United States. Among those convicted were former top Haitian police officers — some of whom are back in Haiti after serving their sentences — and a powerful drug kingpin, Serge Edouard.

Edouard received a life sentence after Jean testified that the drug-trafficker gave him and other law enforcement officials hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect his cocaine shipments to the United States.

At Jean’s November 2005 sentencing, U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez complimented him for his “good work.” In his court testimony, Jean indirectly implicated Aristide and also testified against him before the grand jury. Aristide was never charged and the statue of limitations ran out before U.S. law enforcement officials could prove that he collected kickbacks from traffickers.

After his release from prison, Jean was given a special visa that allowed him to legally live and work in the United States. After running into President Michel Martelly while he was campaigning, Jean decided to move back to Haiti where he had hoped to get a job in the administration, his friend said.

He quit his job as a parking lot attendant at Fort Lauderdale Airport, leaving his wife and kids in South Florida. The friend said he was currently working as an administrator for a Dominican construction firm in Port-au-Prince.

Lately, Jean was back in the news, but in Haiti where he was once more talking. He was a key witness in the ongoing investigation in the assassination of former Haitian journalist and Aristide critic Jean Léopold Dominique.

Jean’s death came one month and a day before the 15th anniversary of Dominique’s April 3, 2000 assassination.

Miami Herald Staff Writer Jay Weaver contributed to this report.
 

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remember all those phony pledges of help from the western nations after the earthquake? all talk and no action.



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Major power boost for Haiti as Chinese firm agrees to finance $240m dam
10 February 2015 | By David Rogers

A memorandum of understanding was signed yesterday (pictured) between Chinese contractor Sinohydro and the Haitian government that opens the way to the construction of a $240m hydroelectric power station, which will be largely finance by Chinese money.
Evans Paul, the prime minister of Haiti, commented on the government’s website: “We have been trying to build this dam for the past 39 years. Now the Artibonite 4C will have a big impact on the regional economy and its productivity.”

The government estimates that the dam will create 7,500 jobs, irrigate 3,500ha of land and boost agricultural production by at least $10m a year.

The Artibonite 4C dam will add 32MW to the country’s installed capacity of about 270MW. It is estimated that the project could provide electricity for as many as a million people in 200,000 households.

Currently the Haitian electricity system, which reaches about 12% of the island’s population, is mostly provided by ageing infrastructure that is inefficient and expensive to maintain.

846.artibonite_river_in_haiti_2010.jpg

Haiti’s Artibonite river, which offers the prospect of renewable electricity for 200,00 homes (Wikimedia Commons)

The early work on the dam was financed by grants of $1.5m from the Inter-American Development Bank and $2.5m from the government of Brazil. A feasibility study was carried out by the Brazilian army, and the government pledged $40m towards the final cost.

However, the Ministry of Public Works then struggled to find funding for the project from aid donors or development funders, until the Chinese stepped in with an offer to provide the money to build the scheme.

Construction is expected to take between 36 and 42 months. One problem facing the project is a cholera epidemic that has followed the course of the Artibonite River.

The disease, which is thought to have been introduced by a Nepalese soldier in a UN peacekeeping unit, has affected 720,000 Haitians and killed almost 9,000. The UN has estimated that eradicating the disease will take 10 years and cost $2.2bn.

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:comeon: ain't that something but the dam i didnt know
 

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Beyonce visits Haiti to see progress made since 2010 quake



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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Pop queen Beyonce has paid a visit to Haiti to look at the progress made since an earthquake devastated the country five years ago.

Haiti U.N. mission spokeswoman Sophie Boutaud de la Combe said Saturday that Beyonce also was able to "meet some of the people who were affected by" by the 2010 disaster in the impoverished Caribbean country.

De la Combe said the American singer, a 20-time Grammy winner, visited Haiti with Valerie Amos, the United Nations' humanitarian affairs chief and emergency relief coordinator.

Photos taken during her Haiti visit show Beyonce wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of her charity organization.

It wasn't immediately clear how long Beyonce's stop in Haiti was or exactly where she visited.

Official estimates say the 2010 quake that shattered Haiti's capital and surrounding areas claimed as many as 300,000 lives.
 

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The Haitian flag has long been a symbol of pride for Haiti. Haitian Flag Day on Monday, May 18, is all about celebrating the culture and heritage of the Haitian flag, which is emblazoned with the country’s coat of arms and the colors red and blue, adopted from the French flag. Haiti gained its independence from colonial rule in 1804, making it the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to do so, and the second republic to defeat a European colonial power in the Americas.

Haitian Flag Day events took place not just in Haiti, but in U.S. cities as well. "We just want people to come and enjoy the day, taste the food, listen to the music, and see how joyful this population is," Indira-Charles-Hyppolite told WTOC-TV while attending a weekend Haitian Flag Day celebration in Savannah, Georgia. "We want them to know we will be here until midnight, dancing, singing, and eating.”

The Haitian flag as it’s known today first came into use in 1806. The story behind the flag’s red-and-blue backdrop is that Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader in the Haitian Revolution against France, removed the white in the French flag to symbolize an end to white European influence. The blue is said to represent the former African slaves who were brought to Haiti by the country’s colonial rulers. The red stands for people of mixed ancestry.

Tragedy has often plagued the small Caribbean country, which has suffered countless natural disasters and struggled with poverty and political instability. Port-au-Prince was the epicenter of a devastating earthquake in 2010 that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left the country’s capital in ruins.

Today, the country is among the poorest nations in the Americas. One in nine children die before the age of five, according to Deep Spring International. Eighty-eight percent of the population lives on less than $2.00 USD a day.

Pop artist Beyoncé visited Haiti over the weekend wearing a T-shirt with the name of her charity, Bey Good. A United Nations spokeswoman said the singer was there to meet victims of the 2010 earthquake, according to the Associated Press.
 

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