Peter Granitz
His regime would ultimately be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, including the massacre of an estimated 20,000 Haitians living near the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic in 1937. “There was a huge danger during that period,” says Elizabeth Manley, an associate ...
Trump’s advisers had hoped he would not take Kamala Harris’ bait, but every time she threw chum in the water — whether it was over rally sizes or race — the former president took a bite. Many Republicans, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly, said that o...
Many of the people who rushed to help after the disaster, while motivated by altruistic intentions, were not actually highly skilled (or skilled at all) in the areas which were needed. Instead of skilled surgeons, the Haitians were often stuck with retired dentists, or other professionals. ...
Traditionally, Haitians have been falsely blamed for acting as carriers of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Thus, testing, research, and health care provisions, mainly from the USA were met with mistrust, apprehension, and caution. Another reason might have been the tendency to...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Haiti's Street Kids Given a Lift ; How the Efforts of a Few Have Changed the Lives of Many Haitians" by Freeman, Melanie Stetson - The Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2007...
The French Revolution also helped provide an opportunity—first for free Black Haitians, then enslaved Black Haitians—to challenge their own subjugation by France. Haiti abolished slavery in 1793 and became an independent state in 1804. Yet the United States and European countries were slow to ...