Haiti

Haiti
Location	Caribbean Sea
Type	nation state
Member of	La Francophonie, Organisation of American States, UN
Subpage	•Haiti/President
Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The poorest country in North America, Haiti has faced natural disasters, economic crises and political instablity for many years.

Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It is the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribbean. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.

Child trafficking

In January 2010, after a big earthquake, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive confirmed child and organ trafficking:

CNN (Christiane Amanpour): "About the children.... tens of thousands of them, maybe hundreds of thousands, have been separated from their families. Many of them families dead, families lost, families moved out. What is being done to corral these children, to register them, to make sure no further harm comes to them?"

PM Jean-Max Bellerive: "It's one of the biggest problem that we have. And this morning, uh, during the coordination meeting in the international community, [I] address[ed] the question of the adoption, because I have a lot of petitions for that. But they have to be very ... cautious, because there is a lot of trafficking in that."

CNN: "Illegal child trafficking."

PM: "Yeah. Uh, even if, uh, it seems to be legal. But a lot of organizations, they come and say 'There were children on the streets. We are going to bring them to the states.' And we have already reports of lot of trafficking, even of organ trafficking. "

CNN: "Of organ trafficking? Now?"

PM: "Now. Already."

CNN: "Of the victims of the earthquake?  Do you know that for sure?"

PM: "Yeah, I know that for sure. And it was discussed inMontreal during the conference."

CNN: "And do you know for sure that children are being trafficked?"

PM: "Now there is, uh, children trafficking for children and adult person also because they need all type of organs."

CNN: "No, but I mean live children. Are they being trafficked?"

PM: "Now, the report I Recieved, [Yes]"

2021

After rejecting the COVID vaccine, Haiti's President, Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021.

Weblinks

• List of radio shows about Haiti

 

Event

Event	Description
Jovenel Moïse/Assassination	The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

 

Citizens of Haiti on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Jean-Bertrand Aristide	15 July 1953		Priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. Ousted twice in U.S.-supported coups.
Klaus Eberwein	1957	12 July 2017	A Haitian government official and businessman who was found dead with gunshot in head, a week before he was due to testify before the Haitian Senate’s Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
Wyclef Jean	17 October 1969		Haitian rapper, YGL/2010
Jovenel Moïse	26 June 1968	7 July 2021	President of Haiti assassinated in 2021

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Haiti 1986-94	book extract	2003	William Blum
Document:How The Clintons Robbed and Destroyed Haiti	blog post		Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza	Their history with the country dates back to 1975 when they had their honeymoon there. If there is an unpopular couple in Haiti, it definitely has to be the Clintons; for they are held in contempt and in despicable terms. What the Clintons did is unforgivable to the Haitians.

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