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2018–2024 Haitian crisis. Tires set on fire by protesters in Hinche, February 2019. Date. 7 July 2018 (2018-07-07) – present (6 years, 4 months and 6 days) Location. Haiti. Caused by. Misuse of loans from Venezuela (Petrocaribe) and social inequality. Rising taxes on gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, and poor living conditions.
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 ]
2022 Haitian fuel protests. The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger.
Haiti (also earlier Hayti) [d] comes from the indigenous Taíno language and means "land of high mountains"; [41] it was the native name [e] for the entire island of Hispaniola. The name was restored by Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines as the official name of independent Saint-Domingue, as a tribute to the Amerindian predecessors.
In 2024, famine conditions struck Haiti as a result of the ongoing Haitian crisis, resulting in a reported 5,636 people suffering from starvation and 5.4 million civilians— almost half of Haiti's population— suffering from "crisis levels of hunger or worse". While food insecurity was first noted in March 2024, a 30 September report released ...
Spanish. Kreyol. English. Stateless is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michèle Stephenson and released in 2020. [1] The film centres on the crisis of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, many of whom have been left stateless by the Dominican Republic's 2013 decision to strip citizenship from Haitian immigrants and their descendants. [2]
Pradel Pompilus – writer and scholar, best known for his three-volume study of Haitian literature. [50] Paulette Poujol-Oriol – educator, writer and feminist [51] Emmelie Prophète – writer and diplomat [52] Jacques Roumain – poet, novelist, editor. Émile Roumer – poet. Edris Saint-Amand – novelist.
Cabaret attack. Police killings. Jailbreak. Pont-Sondé. v. t. e. Between April 24 and May 6, 2022, clashes broke out between the 400 Mawozo gang and the Chen Mechan gang in Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Nearly 200 people were killed, many of whom were civilians.