Kenyan special forces police arrive in Haiti to help the country fight its armed gangs.
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There is a long, and often ugly, history of foreign intervention in Haiti.
Dancers Clara Desportes and Simon Lavenaire in Fort de France during Emancipation Day celebrations in 2016.
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After years of marginalization, the bèlè dance has been embraced by a growing community who see it as a form of social and spiritual healing.
A special team on board a Dutch mission ship carrying out manoeuvres for capturing pirates at sea.
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With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
Still from the movie Un rêve français (“A French Dream”) by Christian Faure, which tells the story of a young Guadeloupean couple during a little-known, tragic time of French post-colonial history.
Eloa Prod 2018
Great Britain was not the only country behaving badly with its Caribbean population: France also experienced similar waves of post-war migration.
After Haiti signed its Declaration of Independence from France, in 1804, the U.S. started a nearly 60-year political and economic embargo that hobbled the young nation’s growth.
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Trump’s anti-Haitian rhetoric ignores a long pattern of migration from Haiti to the U.S., often driven by American meddling in Haitian affairs. Today, the two nations are irrevocably bound by history.