This is Haiti, a country in the Western Hemisphere, where the average daily income per person is only 13 yuan, and the people are hungry every day to feed on mud cakes.
The United Nations has donated a total of 8 billion yuan to it so far, but it has been crowned the "world's poorest country" for many consecutive years.
With high-level officials addicted to corruption and the people getting poorer and poorer to "eat soil", why did Haiti, once known as the "beacon of Latin America", become an "international beggar" who depended on the assistance of the United Nations to survive?
The Source of All Evil There are brave and unscrupulous "brainless" rulers
There is an old saying in China since ancient times that freezing three feet is not a day's cold. More than two hundred years after Haiti's founding, the "poor country" that can retreat from the richest country in Latin America to a poor and white country is largely due to Haiti's rulers.
Haitian, known as the Republic of Haiti, is located in the northern Caribbean, west of the island of Hispaniola. The total area of the country is about 27,750 square kilometers, and the total population is more than 11 million.
The original indigenous people on the island of Hispaniola were a group of Arawaks from indian tribes with a population of about 1 million.
But soon after, Western colonists began to intervene in Hispaniola in large numbers, and since then, this group of "outsiders" who have killed halfway have launched a long campaign against the island's indigenous people.
The viruses and bacteria carried by the foreign colonists themselves, coupled with the slaughter of the colonists, in less than fifty years, the original owners of the island, the Indians, were all wiped out.
However, after the colonists who had successfully achieved their wishes and made the island king, a more difficult problem arose after they acquired hispaniola.
The Indians were driven away, but the colonists urgently needed a large number of people to cultivate plantations on the island and cultivate crops such as sugar cane and coffee.
At that time, when information was blocked and input and output were all dependent on destiny, how easy was it to find a labor force that could save money and obediently do things in the shortest possible time?
Don't worry, for these shrewd white people, if they are simply short of manpower, it is not something that can break their difficulties. Soon, the colonists came up with a countermeasure.
At that time, the African continent was barren and backward, with countless "idle people" who did nothing all day. These black people, who did not have stable jobs, but were eager to improve their lives, naturally became the best choice for the colonists.
Whether in history books or in foreign war movies, it is not difficult to find that throughout the development history of the world for thousands of years, the living conditions of black people have always been at the bottom of society.
It is as if no matter which country the Negro is in in the West, once there is a war, a plague, or a plague, it will always be the Negro who is the first to be "shot."
It is conceivable that these black slaves, forcibly recruited by the colonizers, lived a miserable life on the island every day. They had to work non-stop, and the slightest stagnation would be viciously beaten by white patrons.
There have also been some tortured blacks who have tried to escape, but this is obviously useless. How can an ant have a chance of winning compared to an elephant? The consequences of desperately fleeing can only be exchanged for a brutal capital punishment and a vain loss of life.
But that being said, it's true that black people work hard all day for white colonists, but they won't be willing to be "puppets" of colonists forever. In 1791, the intolerable black people broke out completely, setting off a large-scale uprising.
In this protracted resistance struggle, the forces of all sides are mixed and contradictory. The blacks who had been oppressed for a long time were not accustomed to the pampered white slave owners, and the black rebel army also had disputes with each other, often fighting each other without a word.
But this is not entirely a racial dispute between blacks and whites, after all, in addition to these two forces, the other colonial empires that guard the island of Hispaniola have not been less involved.
These rulers, who share the same ambitions as the colonizers of the island, have been quietly hiding in the shadows since the beginning of the dispute. It doesn't matter who you help or who you don't, as long as you can finally get the land, it is the king's way.
I don't know how long it took for the long and tortuous uprising movement to finally come to an end. The blacks, who had been humiliated in the past, triumphed and occupied the western half of hispaniola island in one fell swoop, establishing the Republic of Haiti on this land.
The Republic of Haiti, which was built but not fully established
Finally, they were able to "turn over to serfs and sing", but the Haitians were no better than the advancedly educated whites, who could neither read nor know what kind of scheming strategy they were engaged in.
As the world's first established black republic and the second country in the Western Hemisphere to declare independence, Haiti has excellent development prospects and unlimited future potential.
As a result, these haitians, who are illiterate per capita, began to make it difficult, what to do to make this hard-won country develop for a long time?
Haitians are confused, and Haitian leaders are even more black-eyed, not knowing where to go next. If Haiti is likened to a chessboard, the leaders are the players who play chess.
Once the chess piece is wrong, the people will rise up and drag the leader from his seat, which is a truth that every Haitian leader in power knows very well.
The question of governance remains to be solved, but the days must always look forward, and Haitian leaders cannot lie down forever as "salted fish". As a result, these people began to stage a series of mysterious operations.
First came the founding leader Jean Jacques de Sarin, the black leader who founded the Republic of Haiti, who initially appointed himself a "governor for life" official position. Perhaps because of his late experience, de Sarin did not feel that his position was not bright enough, and de Sarin took the trouble to give himself the title of emperor of "Jacques I".
Well, it seems that the leader seems to be very keen to "put gold" on himself, and at first glance there is not much of a problem, at most it is a excess of vanity. But as time passed, Haitians began to feel that something was wrong.
Jean Jacques de Sarin
why? Originally, in order to increase the productivity of the country, Jacques I issued a decree forcing all citizens to engage in agricultural labor. If anyone refuses an order, or does not cooperate, they are subject to cruel punishment.
As soon as this decree was promulgated, it was strongly opposed by the people, and people certainly couldn't bear it, thinking that when we tried so hard to drive out the colonists, didn't we hope that your leaders could lead us to a good life?
Now that a good life is not expected, the leaders want to force the people to engage in farm work through violent means, and what is the difference between this behavior and those colonizers?
The intolerable and indignant Haitians soon rebelled and subsequently overthrew Jacques I. And the founding leader Desalin, who once called himself the "emperor", eventually died in the rebellion and could not die well.
But Desalin's abdication did not put Haiti, a fledgling country, back on track, but rather pushed it into a more doomed abyss. The actions of the successive rulers since then were even worse than those of Desarim.
For example, like De Sarin, who aspires to various "titles and knighthoods", he knows that Haiti's land area is pitifully small, but he still insists on establishing more than 60 titles.
What's more, some leaders wanted to promote apartheid and constantly elevate the status of black and white mixed-race children. In the nearly one hundred years from the founding of Haiti to 1915, Haiti has experienced the rise to power of 90 leaders.
Of course, don't look at this number is very large, in fact, the length of each leader's reign is only a short period of more than a year. Although they promulgated many decrees during this period, they were all immoral deeds that harmed the people, so the end was mostly death and running away.
Looking at the development of other neighboring countries and the progress of progress, Haiti is still like being stuck by 520 glue, always relying on the starting point of "standing still". The lives of the people in the country are still miserable, and the leaders in power have changed wave after wave.
The constant change of leaders has led to an increasingly turbulent situation in Haiti, which is already somewhat backward in all aspects, but compared with this, the real head of Haiti is the "good neighbor" of Haiti, the United States.
The name of the "world police" in the United States has been heard by all countries in the world, and the beautiful country that has always been in charge of the heavens and the earth is used to it, and it is usually not less "kind" to help its neighbors, and Haiti is naturally no exception.
In the eyes of the United States, Haiti is equivalent to a vassal state under its own name, so the United States always thinks about running to Haiti to find something to do.
In 1915, the United States sent troops to intervene in haiti's internal political power, and also established a pro-American puppet government under the guise of "democracy". Since it was established by the beautiful country, this puppet government must be on the side of the United States.
After the puppet government came to power, it agreed to the occupation of its own land by the Americans and the right to develop it, in accordance with the wishes of the United States. The Americans were relieved, but the Haitians who had been swept away could not bear it.
This is on their own territory, why can't the Americans even live in their own homes when they come? Of course, haitians who did not come to the same place could not stand this anger, and immediately expressed strong protest and launched a demonstration of resistance.
But the arms could not twist the thighs, the people were so angry that they stomped their feet in place, and the puppet government in power did not think so much about the lives of the people. Later, seeing that the people's crusade was getting louder and louder, the government simply joined the US troops stationed in Haiti to suppress it, and nearly 50,000 Haitians were killed in the protest.
It is precisely because of this turmoil that some high-level people in Haiti have gradually realized that the United States pays lip service to "liberal democracy" all day long, and that it has worked so hard to establish its own "democratic" regime around the world, in the final analysis, it is just trying to attract a few more die-hard followers for itself.
As for the presidency, it is even more so, as long as you are willing to play with the United States, whether you are a civilian or a businessman, literate or illiterate, you can easily become the president of Haiti above ten thousand people in every minute.
However, perhaps the United States, which has always been a great power in other countries for a long time, has not been able to stay in Haiti as always. Under the condemnation of the world and the pressure of public opinion, in 1934, the United States announced the withdrawal of troops from Haiti, and the puppet government it had pulled up also stepped down.
The pro-American puppet government was ousted, but the domestic situation in Haiti was once again in turmoil as various political forces competed.
High-level corrupt gangs run rampant The people are so hungry that they eat dirt cakes for a living
In order to be able to climb to the high position of the president as soon as possible, high-level officials stage one "offensive plan" after another in the political arena every day. Officials are busy taking bribes for money, and the gangs on the other side are not far behind.
Although Haiti is a small island country, it is in such a palm-sized land that there are 76 armed criminal gangs! Criminal gangs can reach such a large number that even if these terrorists roam the streets carrying guns, no police will come out and arrest them.
The powerful upper echelons are intriguing and calculating with each other, and on the surface there is no intersection, but in fact, in the end, the interests of the people at the bottom are harmed. Whether it is the competition between officials for fame and profit, or the gangs fighting in the streets, the people will always be the most victimized party.
For many years, Haiti's development trend has long been in an extremely backward situation, and the unreliable leaders have not only failed to bring a better future to the country, but have instead added to all kinds of obstacles, fearing that the small country of Haiti will slide too slowly on the road back to the original.
In Haiti, about 70 percent of the country's population has been unemployed for a long time, with an average daily income of just over 10 yuan per person, and an average annual income of very little a year.
Years of domestic turmoil and riots have led to a relatively zero-based, even negative, standard for Haiti's industries. The people of this country still mainly live on agriculture, that is, the primitive way of subsistence that depends on the sky to eat.
However, due to the backwardness of technology, most people still cannot eat, and only 20% of the country's population can drink pure water. Some officials have to wonder, Haitians can't eat, is this related to the mud cake mentioned at the beginning?
In other words, even if they are so poor that they are jingling, no one will really fall into the trap of "eating soil" to survive, right?
Needless to say, although this may sound outrageous, in Haiti, which has gloriously become the "poorest country", "eating soil" is indeed a very common reality. The gap between rich and poor in Haiti is very large, ordinary people usually do not eat a decent meal a year, and even the rice we eat most often can only be a luxury that a few rich people can afford in Haiti.
But people always have to eat, and they can't live a hard life of watching God eat every day. So the Haitians invented a food called "dirt cake". As the name suggests, this kind of cake is made of mud from Haiti's most common montmorillonite soil, and then a small amount of butter and salt is mixed into it, stirred and kneaded into a small plate in the yard to dry and shape.
Dirt cakes in the air
There is no doubt that the price of mud cakes is low and the cost of making them is not very high, so in most parts of Haiti, many families use mud cakes as a main source of food for their families. Although this kind of dirt cake can bring people a strong sense of fullness, its drawbacks also abound.
The mud cake itself contains a lot of parasites and bacteria, except for calcium, the rest of the things are almost all harmful to the human body. In addition, the dirt cake itself is difficult to digest, and many Haitians have died because they have eaten too much mud cake to excrete.
How could Haitians not know the dangers? But they also know very well that eating dirt cakes is harmful, and if they have to give up even dirt cakes, they are afraid that they will die faster.
The people are so poor that they can't eat all the time, and the upper echelons are still busy competing with each other for benefits, and such a devastated country cannot be seen by anyone.
In 2004, haiti once again erupted in a large-scale coup, and this time, the United Nations, which had been watching for a long time, finally could not sit still. The United Nations convened a number of countries, and after some deliberations, sent special peacekeeping forces to Haiti to suppress their internal unrest and incidentally assist them in completing that year's presidential elections.
Just sending people out will certainly not solve the problem, and the United Nations has allocated funds to Haiti many times since then, and the rest of the world has also reached out to help Haiti regain its vitality and get out of the haze of poverty.
Unfortunately, the ideal is very full, the reality is too bone, and the kindness of the United Nations and other countries has not only failed to make Haiti change, but Haiti has become more and more backward.
Corrupt people are still engaged in corruption without scruples, gangsters can still be seen fighting each other on the streets, and people still cling to dirt cakes all day long.
There is a saying that describes the current situation in Haiti is very appropriate, mud can not support the wall, Haiti is not the kind of general mud, this is obviously rotten to even take up the "out of print" mud ah!
In 2010, Haiti struck an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, an unprecedented earthquake that claimed the lives of 200,000 Haitians and made Haiti, already too poor to have anything left.
As soon as the news of the Earthquake in Haiti broke, some well-meaning countries immediately sent supplies over urgently, after all, there were not so many people at once, and it was a good thing to be able to help a little.
But then the United Nations and other countries were unable to turn around, and the supplies sent to Haiti not only fell into the hands of the people, but were also "shunned" by the greedy officials. What is even more excessive is that in order to seek profits, some black-hearted businessmen also sell them on the black market and then sell them at a high price.
It is not only these that really make the world angry, but also the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, all countries have been affected to varying degrees, and Haiti is naturally not spared. Some countries have taken the initiative to send some relief supplies to Haiti for humanitarian reasons.
As a result, jophneer Moiz, who was the president of Haiti at the time, far from being sympathetic, rightly accused countries of "interfering in their own internal affairs" and also hated that countries were "ineffective in international assistance".
Jophner Moiz
At this time, not only the United Nations, but also many countries including the mainland can't hold back the fire, you say that this money should be given to you, and people should be sent out, how can you bite back if you don't appreciate it?
In order to completely clear Haiti's problems, on February 22, 2021, the United Nations held a special meeting to publicly criticize Haiti.
After a few months, Moiz was stabbed to death by a mob that broke into his home, killing him with 12 shots and wounds everywhere. But surprisingly, with the exception of the dead Moiz, the other security guards and housekeeping staff present were unscathed.
Today's Haiti is still "more and more courageous" on the road of poverty and death, and Haiti has now changed its new president. Dirt cakes are still a common thing for Haitians, and everything seems to have never changed, and it seems to be getting worse and worse.
We have no way of knowing where Haiti's future is headed, but perhaps time will give us the clearest answer at some point in the future!