[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI: Country Profile: Haiti
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COUNTRIES: HAITI:
Country Profile: Haiti
Country Profile: Haiti
BBC News
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1202772.stm>
Haiti became the world's first black-led republic and the first
independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and
slavery in a series of wars in the early 19th century.
However, decades of poverty, environmental degradation, violence,
instability and dictatorship have left it as the poorest nation in the
Americas.
A mostly mountainous country with a tropical climate, Haiti's location,
history and culture - epitomised by voodoo - once made it a potential
tourist hot spot, but instability and violence, especially since the
1980s, have severely dented that prospect.
Contents of This Country Profile:
Overview
Facts
Leaders
Media
Content Sample:
Overview
Haiti achieved notoriety during the brutal dictatorships of the voodoo
physician Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude, or "Baby
Doc". Tens of thousands of people were killed under their 29-year rule.
Hopes that the election in 1990 of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former
priest, would herald a brighter future were dashed when he was overthrown
by the military a short time later.
Although economic sanctions and US-led military intervention forced a
return to constitutional government in 1994, Haiti's fortunes did not pick
up, with allegations of electoral irregularities, ongoing extra-judicial
killings, torture and brutality.
A bloody rebellion, and pressure from the US and France, forced Mr
Aristide out of the country in 2004.
Since then, an elected leadership has taken over from an interim
government and a UN stabilisation force has been deployed. But Haiti is
still plagued by violent confrontations between rival gangs and political
groups and the UN has described the human rights situation as
"catastrophic".
Meanwhile, Haiti's most serious underlying social problem, the huge wealth
gap between the impoverished Creole-speaking black majority and the
French-speaking minority, 1% of whom own nearly half the country's wealth,
remains unaddressed.
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The right sidebar of this website provides links to news reports and
information sources regarding the earthquake in 2010 in Haiti.
Content Sample:
NEWS AND FEATURES
State of shock
Coastal town struggles to cope with disaster
Haiti 'can lead quake recovery'
EU to send police force to Haiti
Haiti capital toll 'tops 150,000'
Misguided fears of violence
BBC starts Creole broadcasts
RESCUED FROM THE RUBBLE
Buried alive
Haitian man tells how he survived 12 days under the rubble
How long can survivors last?
BACKGROUND
Earthquake maps
See the scale of the damage and the logistics of aid
What is delaying Haiti's aid?
How aid supplies are getting in
How to operate in a disaster zone
Quake disaster: Day by day
Troubled history: Haiti and US
How earthquakes happen
HAITI DISASTERS
1770 - Earthquake devastates Port-au-Prince
1842 - Quake destroys Cap-Haitien, other cities
1935 - Storm kills 2,000
1946 - Tsunami kills 1,790
1954 - Hurricane Hazel kills hundreds
1963 - Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Haiti and Cuba
1994 - Hurricane Gordon kills hundreds
1998 - Hurricane Georges destroys 80% of crops
2004 - Floods kill 2,600
2004 - Tropical Storm Jeanne kills 1,900
2007 - Tropical Storm Noel triggers mudslides, floods
2008 - Three hurricanes and tropical storm kill 800
2010 - Quake hits Port-au-Prince, killing tens of thousands
Sources: AP, US Geological Survey
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