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Let’s rewind. In 1825, France sent warships to the shores of Haiti with a quaint little offer: pay 150 million francs in “compensation” to the former slave owners who had lost their human property after the Haitian Revolution, or prepare for re-invasion. That’s right. A nation born from the world’s only successful slave revolt had to buy its freedom back.
According to a report US diplomatic and security officials have drafted a list of the countries targeted, with varied travel bans for three categories.
Trump's freeze on USAID funding has thrown Latin America into crisis, threatening crucial programs fighting drug trafficking, poverty, and corruption.
In a significant policy shift, the US has carved out a $40. 7 million exception to Trump's aid freeze, specifically for Haiti's critical security mission.
Since the late 1950s, separate armed gangs have helped Haitian politicians and state leaders stay in power until recently, when those gangs rose up and ousted the very government that once hired them.
A political transition deal in Haiti marks a key step forward for the violence-ravaged country but far more needs to be done, with some experts warning the situation could deteriorate further.
LETTER: n Sudan, we have a civil war forced upon innocent people by a few military men. In Palestine, Israeli Zionists are busy with a genocide against innocence. In Haiti, gangsters control an entire nation.