The Official Early(pre-1950s) Haitian History Thread

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[loyola llothta]

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Now your fake ass posting about the US Occupation when you was trying say otherwise afew months ago

Goofy ass

 

[loyola llothta]

Here is when Haiti military went from history of glory to the most disgraceful group of men in north América

 

[loyola llothta]

Here is when Haiti military went from history of glory to the most disgraceful group of men in north América

salute the real zoes

This July 28 marks the 104th anniversary of the US occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). Posterity must remember the Resistance fighters who fought the occupiers and fell as Heroes for # Haiti: Pierre Sully, Charlemagne Péralte, Benoît Batraville and Rosalvo Bobo. # 28Jul

 

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CATHERINE FLON

designer of the Haitian Flag

 

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I'm officially splitting this thread and moving all modern Haitian political posts to a new thread. Really intended this thread to be for early Haitian history. So far this thread seems to be a mix/mess in that regards. I feel by doing this things will be more "organized" and easier to walk through.

 

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I'm officially splitting this thread and moving all modern Haitian political posts to a new thread. Really intended this thread to be for early Haitian history. So far this thread seems to be a mix/mess in that regards. I feel by doing this things will be more "organized" and easier to walk through.

You're a mod?
You authority having ass mofo ain't never said nothing. Don't make me déchouké ya ass. Aba makout!

 

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You're a mod?

Uh.... Yea.

 

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You're a mod?

50 cent da fukk

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MJ laughing

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[loyola llothta]

Chicho Cuba leader and union activist of Haitian origin!

April 18. 2018

Haitian braceros in Cuba

Chicho Cuba was a living example of Haitian participation in Cuban labor struggles. Of Haitian descent, he was a great Haitian trade union leader among agricultural workers at the Egipto sugar factory in El Salvador, Guantánamo province.

Chicho was born in the 1920s. His Haitian parents arrived in Cuba in 1919 to work, earn some money and go home. But the little income earned made them stay longer than expected. They lived in a room, in the batey. As time went on, they had been able to build a cottage.

The teenager showed great interest in his country of origin. His contemporaries had given him the nickname "Cuba" because they always heard him exclaim: "Cuba! Cuba! Cuba! ". Chicho did not go to school on a regular basis. But he spent some time in a small establishment in the Corralillo district of El Salvador. But his obstinacy in learning as much as he could lead him to read a lot, and his innate intelligence allowed him to know enough about mathematics, Spanish, and other subjects.

Despite his Haitian ancestry (he spoke Creole at home), he had learned and spoke fluent Spanish without an accent. The economic situation of his family led him to drop out of school and to devote himself to the only work that was, within his reach: cut the sugar cane. The chores related to cane cutting facilitated many contacts with workers from various plantations in the region.

By his great courage, he showed that the Haitian braceros were not people who obediently submitted to the arbitrary. Thus in 1940 the Ermita Housing Union was organized to respond to the concerns and demands of the workers and to face the terrible working and living conditions to which the trade unionists and their families were subjected.

Chicho Cuba was elected general secretary of the union, because, according to the workers at that time, to be a leader of agricultural workers it was necessary to have a lot of guts. Chicho Cuba met with the farm workers and analyzed with them the prevailing situation, while raising the problem of what they should demand from the employers. In 1944, cane cutters could no longer resist either the low level of pay for their work or the living conditions to which they were subjected.

On April 6, 1944, about 800 cane cutters from Arroyo Manteca and neighboring areas, armed with their machetes, marched from the cane fields to the offices of the Ermita power station to demand a salary increase. At their head walked Chicho Cuba.

The panicked foremen gave the alarm to the central office while exaggerating the situation: thus, they claimed to notice that the workers intended to burn the mill. They called on Cuneira squadron, whose numbers occupied the roads through which the protesters arrived. When these appeared, the military, without warning, began to shoot at them, first in the air and then up to man. Chicho Cuba fell and died instantly, arms raised as he encouraged his comrades.

He was buried in La Viuda Cemetery, in the center of Ermita. Long anonymous, it is thanks to the Cuban revolution that Chicho entered the history of the union struggles. We will keep preciously in our grateful memory the memory of the great courage of the activist, the unionist, the comrade, the compatriot who rests peacefully in his adopted homeland.

Source: Raimundo G. Navia. Haitianos in the history of Cuba.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Happy late birthday father Dessalines!

May you rest in peace in Guinee and the Loas bless you with many liquors and women for your sacrifices. Ayibobo!

 

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Haiti’s Grim History of Being “Open for Business”
Haiti Grassroots Watch -

May 30, 2011

The gold mines planned for Haiti’s north come on the heels of centuries of foreign investment in – and extraction of – the country’s minerals as well as other natural and agricultural resources.

1492: Writing in his journal during his first voyage, Christopher Columbus said the people of what would later be called “Hispaniola” – today comprised of Haiti and the Dominican Republic – gave the sailors gold with “such generosity of heart and such joy that it was wonderful.” Every other entry has references like “great pieces of gold,” and “pieces of gold as large as the hand.” In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands, some say millions, of indigenous people died in gold mines and due to Spanish-borne diseases.

A decade after Columbus’ first trip, the Spanish crown was already getting its “royal fifth” (20% of all gold found) from the Caribbean, collecting 8,000 ducats (about 884 ounces) in 1503, and about 120,000 ducats (13,272 ounces) in 1518.

1697-1804: The labor of an estimated 800,000 African slaves earned the French colony the nickname “Pearl of the Antilles” because of the massive wealth produced for the French crown and French investors exporting sugar, coffee and indigo. According to some researchers, by 1789 the colony exported one-half the world’s coffee and accounted for about 40% of France’s foreign trade.

1857: U.S. sea captain Peter Duncan proclaimed La Navasse Island, off Haiti’s lower “arm,” a “U.S. territory” under the 1856 U.S. Guano Island Act, which proclaimed that any U.S. citizen could take “peaceable possession” of any guano-rich “island, rock or key” that is “not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government.” Guano – bird dung – was in high demand as a fertilizer.

La Navasse was part of Haiti, but no matter. The U.S. claimed the island and a company town was built to “mine” the dung. Today, the company is long gone, but La Navasse is still considered a U.S. territory by Washington. But Haiti still claims La Navasse and lists the island as national territory in its 1987 Constitution.

1910: Hayti Mines Company, based in New York, bought Compagnie Minière de Terre-Neuve. Over 10 years, the company exported 436 tons of copper ore. No more information is available.

1911: W.R. Grace backed U.S. entrepreneur James MacDonald, allowing him to take over Haiti’s National Railroad Company. In exchange for promising to build a railway from Port-au-Prince to the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, MacDonald was given 50-year concessions for all the land alongside the eventual 320-kilometer railway line for banana plantations – two kilometers in each direction – as well as a 50-year monopoly on banana exports. The MacDonald Company issued US$35 million worth of bonds which were 60% guaranteed by the Haitian government. MacDonald failed and fled. During the 1915-1934 U.S. occupation, the Haitian government was forced to pay out over $4 million to investors.

1915-1934: U.S. occupation of Haiti. Explained President Woodrow Wilson in 1913: “Our responsibility to the American people demands that we assist American investors in Haiti.” In 1914, U.S. Marines seized Haiti’s gold reserves, and within months U.S. Marines invaded again to begin the longest of all U.S. military occupations.

After a puppet parliament passed a law allowing foreigners to own land, over 1,000 square kilometers of land were granted to U.S. companies between 1917 and 1927, and another 1,000 square kilometers were sold to U.S. companies after 1928. U.S. pineapple, sugar, banana, and sisal companies expelled tens of thousands of farming families from their plots. Firms included familiar names like United Fruit and Standard Fruit, but also Haitian Products Co., Haitian American Sugar Co., etc. Most U.S. plantations ended in failure.

This period also saw massive migration of Haitian laborers, illegally and legally, to Cuba and the Dominican Republic in search of work. Total numbers are not known but from 1915 to 1930, between 5,000 and 20,000 mostly male labors legally went to Cuba each year.

1935: Standard Fruit and Steamship Company signed a 10-year contract, which was renewed for another five years. The New Orleans-based firm was given a monopoly over all banana exports for the first 10 years, and over most exports for the period 1945-1950. By 1945, in the Artibonite Valley alone, the company controlled 3,900 hectares directly and bought bananas from farmers on another 5,000 hectares. Growers who refused to plant bananas often faced repression and torched fields. Bananas became one of the country’s major exports by 1945, but the corruption of government authorities and other factors contributed to a gradual decline.

1941: The Haitian American Agricultural Development Company (SHADA in French) was formed in order to supply the U.S. government with rubber and sisal (for rope) for World War II. The firm got a US$5 million loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and a concession of some 60,000 hectares of farmland and pine forest for the dual purpose of logging and planting rubber and cryptostegia, a rubber bush. In addition, SHADA got over 130,000 hectares of land in the north and northeast, which it logged completely, in order to set up sisal plantations. Farmers thrown off their land received a pittance in compensation – between $5 and $25 per carreau (1.29 hectares). A million fruit trees in Haiti’s southwest alone (Grande Anse) were cut down. In just one year, 1943, over 30,000 families were expelled from their lands.

The rubber project closed down in 1945, with a $6.8 million loss. Other SHADA projects lost over $2 million that year, too. SHADA is considered the worst fiasco “development” project in Haitian history.

1944: Reynolds Haitian Mines, Inc., obtained an exclusive monopoly on bauxite and a concession to mine near Miragoâne. Over about 40 years,13.3 million tons of bauxite was sent up to Corpus Christi, Texas. Haitian bauxite accounted for almost one-fifth of Reynolds’ bauxite acquisition in the years between 1959 and 1982. Reynolds was given access to 150,000 hectares. Thousands of families were expelled.

The Haitian government got royalties of 90 US cents on the metric ton at first, then US$1.29. When Haiti and other countries formed the International Bauxite Association (IBA) in 1974, royalties went up again, but within six years, Reynolds had pulled out, having extracted most of the bauxite and also in search of countries with lower royalties. Over its four decades in Haiti, Reynolds built one eight-mile road and employed about 300 people.

1955: The Société d’Exploitation et de Développement Economique et Naturel (SEDREN), owned by the Canadian company Consolidated Halliwell, obtained a concession to mine copper in the region of Mémé (Terre-Neuve/Gonaïves). Over 12 years (1960-1972), SEDREN exported 1.5 million tons of copper ore valued at about $83.5 million. The government got about US$3 million.

At its high point – 1971 – the mining industry (Reynolds and SEDREN together) employed only 889 people, who were paid only the minimum wage – less than 70 US cents a day at the time. All skilled labor came from overseas.

Haitian economist Fred Doura has called Haiti’s economy a dependent and “extraverted” characterized by enclaves. Speaking of mining, he wrote: “The extractive industry in Haiti is a typical example of an ‘enclave’ industry under foreign domination where two North American transnationals exploited the minerals bauxite and copper… [T]he impact was practically null on the economy.” [Économie d’Haïti – dépendence, crise et développement (2001)]

Sociologist and historian Alex Dupuy agrees with Doura’s assessment. “Historically, foreign investments have not had positive impacts on the Haitian population in general,” the Wesleyan professor explained to HGW in a telephone interview in February 2012. “Usually a few members of the Haitian elite benefit, the state takes its part, and then the profits all go to the company.”

“Peasants have good reason to be distrustful of any and all proposals of foreign investment in Haiti, because they know very well how these projects have gone in the past,” Dupuy added. “They are here to invest for themselves, not for the country, not for the peasants. They appropriate peasants’ lands, taking away their only means of livelihood. So why should peasants trust them, or the central government in Port-au-Prince, or anyone else?”

 

[loyola llothta]

Aug 13, 1791 was the final issue of French colonial newspaper Les Affiches americaines, one day before the Aug 14 Bwa Kayiman ceremony that spearheaded the Haitian Revolution. The paper advertised escaped humans (maroons), and the sale of humans under "Goods ." #Boukman #Haiti


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