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This kind of mass migration has not been seen since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, nearly wiping out all of Port-au-Prince and leaving more than 300,000 dead.
To counter a potential migration flow, the Biden administration in January 2023 included Haiti in a list of four countries whose nationals would be allowed to come to the United States legally as ...
Carnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Harold Isaac and Evelio Contreras, CNN March 22, 2024 at 2:42 AM
The Haitian refugee crisis, which began in 1991, saw the US Coast Guard collect Haitian refugees and take them to a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay. [1] They were fleeing by boat after Jean-Bertrand Aristide , the democratically elected president of Haiti , was overthrown and the military government was persecuting his followers. [ 2 ]
Significant Haitian immigration to Brazil began in 2010. The arrival of the Haitians via Tabatinga, in the Amazon, began to be noticed in February, soon after the earthquake that violently shook Haiti and in particular the capital, Port-au-Prince. The catastrophe killed more than 150,000 people and left some 300,000 internally displaced.
On 14 January 2021, hundreds demonstrated in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien, Jacmel, Saint-Marc, and Gonaïves against President Moïse. Most of the demonstrations were peaceful, but some violence was reported. [76] On 20 January, hundreds again demonstrated in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien to protest against President Moïse.
Of the 53,125 people who fled Port-au-Prince from March 8-27, nearly 70% already had been forced to abandon their homes and were living with relatives or in crowded and unsanitary makeshift ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that surprised many as gang violence consumes the country.