The court system includes the Supreme Court, a court of cassation, and courts of lower instance: appellate courts, courts for civil suits, and magisterial courts. Natural features. Haiti occupies the western, more rugged section of Hispaniola. There are two prominent peninsulas—the Northwest on ...
and Haiti's unstable political and economic conditions made it vulnerable to outside intervention. Haiti's rising external debt caused European countries to threaten force to collect. At this time, World War I was at its peak in Europe and in July of 1915, the United States Marines landed on...