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[39] [40] [41] Economic problems and the increased cost of living helped fuel the protests. [41] On 7 February, protesters targeted and damaged wealthy Haitians' luxury vehicles. The following day, the mayors of Petion-ville and Port-au-Prince announced the cancellation of pre-Haitian Carnival events. [41]
Haiti has long struggled with its abnormally high infant mortality rate even amongst impoverished nations. Haiti's infant mortality rate of 53 deaths per 1,000 live births (in 2011) [10] is the result of the poor healthcare system, extreme poverty, and the impact of the AIDS epidemic. [7]
Haiti has a free market economy [10] [11] [12] with low labor costs. A republic, it was a French colony before gaining independence in an uprising by its enslaved people. It faced embargoes and isolation after its independence as well as political crises punctuated by foreign interventions and devastating natural disasters.
Today, Haiti is facing down a humanitarian crisis unlike any other. As a member of the Haitian diaspora, I cannot help resisting the poverty narrative.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapidly ...
Protests erupted in Haiti on 14 September 2022 in response to rising energy prices and the rising cost of living. [2] Following an announcement by the acting prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry , on 11 September that the government would be ending fuel subsidies and that the price of petroleum products would be increasing, demonstrations in ...
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[11] [12] [16] The corvée system was found in Haiti's rural code by Major Smedley D. Butler, who testified that forced labor cut the cost of 1 mile (1.6 km) of road construction from $51,000 per mile to $205 per mile. [48] The corvée resulted in the deaths of hundreds to thousands of Haitians.