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The governments of Haiti and the United States sign an agreement on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country and the end of the U.S. occupation 18 October: President Vincent of Haiti and President Rafael Leónidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic meet for diplomatic talks in Ouanaminthe in northeastern Haiti, near the Dominican border 1934
Pages in category "1980s in Haiti" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Hérard Abraham;
Haiti's unique position and geography in the Caribbean makes it especially vulnerable to many kinds of natural disasters. The most notable of these disasters are landfalls from tropical cyclones, major earthquakes (due to its position over an active fault line), and general flooding events (often accompanied with landslides that kill hundreds).
The United States has a sad history of meddling in Haiti, from sending in troops multiple times to tacitly supporting the dictatorship of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, whose Tonton Macoutes ...
Official figures released by the Martial Law Command put the death toll at 144 civilians, 22 troops and four police killed, but the actual death toll may have been as high as the 2,000 range. [138] Haiti's president, Jean-Claude Duvalier married Michèle Bennett Pasquet in a wedding that cost the nation three million U.S. dollars. [139]
The demise of Haiti’s health sector comes after years and millions of dollars in investment, especially after the 2010 earthquake that destroyed most of Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas.
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Haiti, following the end of the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue which declared its independence from France on 1 January 1804 and became the world's first and oldest black-led republic in the Americas, the first Caribbean state and the first Latin American country as a whole in the Western Hemisphere after the United States ...
In the 2016 video game Mafia III, the New Bordeaux Haitian Mob is composed mainly of refugees who fled Haiti to escape from persecution by the Tonton Macoute. In the television series The Thick of It, the character Malcolm Tucker jokes in response to why he enters a room without knocking that it is due to his "time with the Haitian death squads".