On July 7, 2021, a group of people suddenly rushed into the Haitian presidential palace and killed Haitian President Moiz with guns, according to people familiar with the matter, Moiz was shot 12 times in the whole body, one in the arm, left leg, left ear and face, and Moiz's wife was also shot and sent to Miami, the United States for treatment. The whole process lasted about 30 minutes, and it seemed that Haitian President Moiz had been tortured before his death, and it was really sad that the president of a country had ended his life in such a way.
Killed President Moiz
In fact, this is not the first time that a Haitian president has died of death, since the founding of Haiti in 1804, most of the successive presidents have not had a good ending, from the first founding emperor Toussaint Louverture was arrested and imprisoned until death, the subsequent presidents either committed suicide, or were poisoned, or exploded, or stepped down in a coup, or executed, there is a good end of a hand index over, being a Haitian president is like playing with life, do not know which of tomorrow and accidents to come first, but everyone should not think how good these presidents are, Haiti is here today, thanks to successive presidents. Today's Haitian people are so poor that they eat soil every day, I don't know if they will remember the days when the founding of the country was "debut is the peak".
One debut is the peak
Haiti is located in Latin America, on the island of Hispaniola in the north of the Caribbean, from the map, it is behind the ass of the United States, we all know that the United States is most afraid of being stabbed in the ass, that kind of sour, unforgettable. Therefore, since the founding of the United States, the United States has regarded Latin America as its back garden, and of all the Latin American countries, haiti was the first to be controlled by the United States.
Before being taken over by the United States, Haiti was ravaged by two robbers, Spain and France.
When Columbus sailed in 1472, the first place to reach Latin America was Hispaniola, and 4 years later, Spain came to establish the first colony in the Americas, Santo Domingo, after which these butchers wantonly slaughtered indigenous Indians, when Spain first came to the island, there were more than 200,000 indigenous Indians, and by the end of the 16th century, indigenous Indians were extinct on this island. It is said that during the assassination of the last Indian chief, the Spanish soldiers told him to convert to God, and the chief said that there was a paradise for the Spaniards, and he did not go, so he was killed, and the Indians on the island of Hispaniola were extinct.
The natives were killed, no one served the Spaniards, so they kidnapped blacks from Africa to the island to continue their slavery, and Hispaniola became the first place in the Americas to reach black people, nearly 100 years before the United States. Seeing that the Spaniards occupied such a large area, the French were not happy, and in 1665 they also sent troops to occupy a place in the western part of Hispaniola, which later became Haiti. Seeing that France could not be defeated, Spain could only recognize the French colonies, and France occupied half of the island, named French Santo Domingo (now Haiti) and Spanish Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). Under French colonial rule, French Santo Domingo actually developed well, and by the 18th century, it had become one of the richest colonies in the Americas, with 500,000 people, while Spanish Santo Domingo in the east had only 150,000 people.
In 1780, 40% of the sugar and 60% of the coffee on the European market were produced in Santo Domingo, France, and in 1791, the sugar production in the area ranked first in the world, known as the "Pearl of the Caribbean". However, this bright and beautiful pearl was made of the blood and sweat of 500,000 black slaves. Black slaves worked an average of 18 hours a day, and the average laborer lived only 7 years. In other words, if a slave is caught in Haiti at the age of 18, he will generally not live to be 25 years old. The black slaves were exhausted, tortured, and humiliated by the threat of Bayonets and guns in France, and finally revolted in the late 18th century.
In 1789, the French Revolution failed, the rule in Latin America weakened, the Negroes took the opportunity to start fighting back, as we all know, where there is turmoil, there is the United States, at this time the United States was less than 15 years old, began to target Latin America behind the ass. The United States secretly helped a black slave named Toussaint Louvertour and persuaded him to establish a state and get rid of French colonial rule for his own use, and later, with the help of the United States, Toussaint spent 12 years killing nearly 20,000 white people, successfully occupying French Santo Domingo, and announcing the abolition of slavery in 1801. However, before Toussaint could declare his founding, he was dragged to prison by the French and eventually imprisoned to death. At this time, France was not able to slow down, nor could it fight with the colonies, and finally the two sides reached an agreement, and French Santo Domingo paid France $12 million as a ransom for black slaves, and France also recognized Santo Domingo's independence.
Thus in 1804 haiti was proclaimed, becoming the first country in Latin America, the first black republic in the world, and the first country in the world to successfully establish a slave revolt. It has also become the only thing that can be said in the 200 years since haiti's founding.
But unfortunately, this country has been burdened with $12 million in arrears from France since its founding, knowing that France sold 2.6 million square kilometers of Louisiana to the United States for only $15 million, and now Haiti has a total area of only 27,000 square kilometers, which costs $12 million, and knows that bullying blacks. It was certainly not enough to pay back for a while and a half, and it could only be paid in installments, and 80% of the money from the fiscal revenue was taken out every year to repay the loan, and it was not until 1947 that Haiti finally paid off the debt, a full 143 years.
It can be said that a large part of Haiti's current poverty comes from the debts it carried when it was founded, of course, and a large part of the reason is from the corruption of the rulers and the United States, which has to be inserted everywhere.
The first president of Haiti was Jean Jacques de Sarin, a black slave who had to turn himself into a master, and the first thing he did when he came to power was to massacre white people, and in February 1804, the Haitian massacre began, killing nearly 5,000 white people in just two months. The second thing is to restore agriculture, because the economy of Haiti, which has just left France, has plummeted, and even the United States next door is not willing to do business with them, because at this time the United States is still slavery, and after the founding of Haiti, so many white people have been killed, and the American slave owners have been frightened, and they dare not do business with them, and they have to watch out for the rebellion of the black people under them every day. In this case, nothing in Haiti could be sold, and Desalin could only distribute the land equally among the people, let them go to farming, and be self-sufficient, but because of the brutality of the means, it did not take long to be assassinated. After Desalin's death, Haiti was divided into north and south, and after that, Haiti was in civil strife for more than a hundred years, slowly transforming from one of the richest colonies into the poorest and most chaotic country.
Jean Jacques de Sarin
Seeing that Haiti is not in such chaos, the United States in the north really can't see it anymore and is distressed, so, adhering to the spirit of "freedom and equality", where there is turmoil, where there is me, the United States resolutely and resolutely set foot on the territory of Haiti.
From 1908 to 1915, the outside world was fighting the First World War, the Haitians were fighting civil wars in their own territory, 6 coups d'état in 7 years, changing 8 presidents, fighting until July 1915, until even the government was gone, leaving a power vacuum, the United States took the opportunity to invade the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, snatched $13 million worth of gold, supported the puppet regime, and also signed an unequal treaty with Haiti, stipulating that Haiti's land can only be leased to the United States, not to other countries. He even served as a customs and tax administrator in Haiti, making the goods exported to Haiti by the United States completely free of taxes, which greatly affected Haitian products. American companies have also moved to Haiti, controlling Haiti's sugar and sisal industries, as well as the mining and processing of copper and aluminum, plundering Haiti's cheap labor and turning Haiti into a source of raw material supply and dumping of products in the United States. After a series of operations, the political, military, diplomatic, and economic arrangements of the entire Haiti have been clearly arranged by the United States, and Haiti has completely become a puppet state.
This oppression continued until the 1930s, causing resistance throughout Latin America, and in order to "appease" the riots that were eager to stir, Roosevelt, then president of the United States, began to propose a good-neighborly policy, advocating a strategy of "non-interference" and equal coexistence, and formally withdrew his troops from Haiti in 1934. But don't be deceived, this is just a pretense, the United States feels that the use of military occupation is too explicit, people are not adaptable, so it will use economic and political means to control, it will seem euphemistic, will not make people so resistant. This method has been tried and tested, and people love it, and the United States has been using it until now.
During World War II, Haitian pro-American President Lesko, in order to show his loyalty, actually followed the United States to declare war on Japan after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, please, big brother, little Japan beat the United States to shut up your ass, you are so big ass, and so poor, no one pays attention to you, moreover, do you have a regular army? Not only did he declare war on Japan, Lesco turned Haiti into a strategic resource for the United States, freeing up 6,000 acres of land for the United States to grow rubber, which was stolen from farmers, which directly led to a spike in Haiti's unemployment rate. In addition, Lesco also used the capital Port-au-Prince as a US military base, but did so much, in addition to increasing the burden on the country, Haiti did not get anything, after the end of World War II, since the 1950s, the world's economy is recovering, only Haiti, still negative growth, I don't know what they are trying to do?
But worse, the Haitian people, tired of corrupt and corrupt governments, were desperate to elect an honest and capable President, and it was at this time that a village doctor who shouted the slogan of justice and integrity won the support of the majority and was finally elected as the 32nd President of Haiti in 1957.
The Duvalier family
The village doctor, named François Duvalier, studied at the University of Haiti Medical School, ran to work for the United States Health Mission in Haiti after graduation, and later became the Minister of Health, who is said to often treat the poor and help the poor for their welfare. Later, Duvalier went to the United States to study medicine, and it is estimated that during this period, he was targeted by the United States and supported him all the way to become president. No one expected that as soon as this guy came to power, he changed his face, corruption, dictatorship was even worse than the previous presidents, and even vigorously suppressed the opposition, within a month of taking office, he arrested more than 100 opposition parties, tortured them, and soon there was a military coup in the country, after being suppressed, Duvalier carried out a major purge of the army, and even put all the weapons and explosives in the country to the presidential palace.
Duvalier
Not only that, but Duvalier simply rebuilt an armed force of his own to protect his own safety, known as the Presidential Self-Defense Force. This is not enough, Duvalier also set up a department, called "Tongton Markut", similar to our Ming Dynasty Period of the East Factory, specially convened some hooligan bullies as eyeliner, acting viciously, cruel means, to see who is unhappy to arrest whom, the key is that these people do not have money, income is from robbing the people, because there is a president behind, no one dares to resist. By August 1962, the number of Tonsomakut had reached 8,000, while the entire Haitian army was only 5,000 at that time, which showed the rapid development. In 1964, there was another riot in Haiti, Thongon Marcout slaughtered hundreds of insurgents, some of the insurgents were killed, all their families were killed, not one was left, and Duvalier also ordered that the bodies of these people should not be collected, and the bodies were hung in conspicuous places in the capital, leaving them to rot and make people panic. According to statistics, during his reign, about 30,000 to 60,000 people were slaughtered in Haiti.
In addition to physically destroying Haitians, Duvalier also spared spiritually. In Haiti, everyone has one belief, and that is the belief in voodoo, which comes from voodoo and is very popular in Haiti. Voodooism originated in the Beninese country of West Africa, and later because Africans were trafficked to Haiti, Voodooism also spread to the past, and combined with the Catholic Church under French colonization at that time, forming a unique Voodoo cult in Haiti. This voodoo cult is more evil, the most terrible of which is the "return of the soul corpse", legend has it that the wizard can kill a person, and then resurrect him, into a cold, listening to the living dead, equivalent to a mod emotion machine, telling you to do whatever you want. In order to prevent their relatives from becoming soul corpses after death, people in Haiti will cut his throat or nail them up, the scene is very terrible, and later experts confirmed that it is the wizard who made poison powder with puffer fish poison, giving people to eat, and the toxin paralyzed people's nerves before becoming the living dead.
However, during The reign of Duvalier, the Haitians did not know what the reason was, plus everyone had not read any books (during the reign of Duvalier, the Haitians had no education, the whole country was basically illiterate, and the educated people were persecuted to go abroad), and they were afraid of this to death, at this time, Duvalier claimed to be the god of voodoo, dominating everything in Haiti, and he could cast spells to expel evil, and scare the uncultured black people at the bottom into a stunned, pinched to death. Later, after the fall of the Duvalier family, the Haitian people were still worried that Duvalier would resurrect and retaliate against them, so they planned to dig up graves and exhum the corpses, which shows how terrible the spiritual influence of Duvalier on the Haitian people is.
In addition to his brutality, Duvalier was very corrupt, and the Haitian people were so poor that he could still find ways to extort a lot of money from it. In 1961, Duvalier planned to build a new city in his own name, calling on everyone to raise money, those who donated money were fine, those who did not donate money hit you until you donated money, those who did not donate money directly beat you to death, and the money of government officials was directly deducted from their salaries, and as a result, after more than twenty years, nothing was built, and the money was collected into their own pockets. Not only that, But Duvalier sold Haitians in order to make money, and he signed a contract with neighboring Domini to provide 20,000 black laborers a year for $59 per person, which was also collected in his own pocket, known as "alternative slave trafficking", and was condemned by the international community. For his own benefit, he seems to have forgotten how the haitian black ancestors worked hard step by step to get rid of the fate of black slaves, and as a result, when it came to his hands, he took the old road again, originally born from the same root, and he was too anxious to fry each other.
The reason why Duvalier is so rampant is due to the support of the United States in the back, just became the president, he also signed a two-way military agreement with the United States, and provided missile bases to the United States, and the United States also provided economic assistance to Haiti. We all know that during the Cold War Cuba has broken away from the control of the United States, fell to the Soviet Union, and also broke out a terrible missile crisis, so the other countries in Latin America naturally dare not take it lightly, coupled with Duvalier's anti-communist stance, the United States from time to time to give him a little economic assistance, although it knows that most of this money has fallen into Duvalier's handbag, but it is also a blind eye. But with The brutal dictatorship of Duvalier for many years, some people in the United States who have a little conscience suddenly cut off economic aid to Haiti, which can make Duvalier angry, turn his face and threaten the United States, if he does not give Haitian economic assistance, he will defect to the Soviet Union and let the United States enjoy the taste of "double stabbing". Seeing this kind of fool who didn't know the sky was high, Kennedy, then president of the United States, was considering whether to support a normal point again, but there was no further follow-up, because in 1963, he was assassinated and burped. Just as everyone was speculating about who was behind it, Duvalier bravely stepped forward and shouted that Kennedy had been cursed by him to die, but no one paid any attention to him.
In 1964, Duvalier, who had been oppressing the people for many years, feared that he would be liquidated after he stepped down, so he began to blackmail the parliament to amend the constitution, make himself "president for life", and designate the next successor to pave the way for himself. In 1970, feeling that he was running out of time, he decided to appoint his son Jean-Claude Duvalier as president, but at this time Claude was only 18 years old, just an adult, and he continued to blackmail parliament to amend the constitution and change the age of the president from the minimum 40 to 18, so that it could be, I have to say that this Duvalier is really a talent, for the glory of the family, it is really racking his brains.
In 1971, a generation of "mind controlists", "black slave traders", "black killing machines" Duvalier finally died of heart disease and diabetes. At this time, the United States also invested too much money in Duvalier, did not want to drift, in order to prevent a coup d'état in Haiti, actually sent troops to haiti around, so Duvalier's 19-year-old son Jean-Claude Duvalier with the help of the United States "smoothly" ascended to the presidency, becoming the youngest president in the world. Sometimes it's really unfair to think about it, someone else was president at 19, I was moving bricks when I was 19.
Everyone looks at the little fat man with the collagen face in the picture below, that is, the little Duvalier, looking at a harmless look of people and animals, no one will think that this little fat man will do the president, more fierce than his father.
Xiao Du was a playboy before he was a minor, playing racing cars, riding motorcycles, having a lot of fun, and after becoming president, he didn't understand anything, and could only temporarily be listened to by his mother Simone and do some state affairs. In the 1970s, in order to thank the United States, Haiti continued to play under the banner of "anti-communism" and the United States looked at each other, and the United States resumed economic assistance to Haiti, so during that period of time, Haiti actually achieved unprecedented economic growth, rising by 5% per year, and in 1974 the Haitian football team actually played in the World Cup, which ... How embarrassing, please put "boo" in the comments below.
However, in order to prevent the outflow of power, Simona actually prevented Xiao Du from falling in love, which was a bit of a feeling of an old lady of Cixi in the Qing Dynasty, resulting in Xiao Du not even having a girlfriend at the age of 26. But this little Du is not a fuel-saving lamp, by the age of 29, he finally can't stand the life of a single dog, crazy in love with the daughter of a Haitian business magnate, and even threatened his mother, and then did not agree to their marriage if they would give up the presidency, go away and fly away, this drama of not loving the country and loving the beauty really made the smell sad, the listener shed tears, and his mother Simona finally compromised.
Holding the beauty in one hand, Xiao Du began to love the power again, they have been on the throne for so many years, the power has been controlled by an old woman, even marrying a wife is so difficult, how to lead the Haitian people in the future, and how to embark on the peak of life. So Xiao Du cultivated his own power everywhere and confronted Simone, and finally in 1981, Simone reprimanded Xiao Du's wife in front of many relatives and friends, Xiao Du could not stand it, and immediately drove his mother Simone out of Haiti, since then, the power finally fell into the hands of Little Duvalier, and he began to release himself.
Little Du Lang, with his father Old Dolby is more than enough, to build a grave for his father for 3 million US dollars, to buy a yacht for 850,000 US dollars, to have a wedding for 5 million US dollars, even to set off fireworks for 100,000 US dollars, trenches do not want. Xiao Du's money is not all inherited from his father, although Lao Du snatched the money of the Haitian people almost when he was in power, enough to embezzle 500 million US dollars, but our Xiao Du is not an old man, self-reliant, even in Haiti, which is already too poor to be poor, making money is still difficult for our little fat man.
Xiao Du's father-in-law was in charge of the export trade, and they sold Mexican oil to Haiti at a low price, and sold it to South Africa at a high price, when the middleman made a difference. In 1980, in order to save Haiti's foreign exchange, the International Monetary Fund gave Haiti $22 million in aid, Xiao Du directly embezzled $20 million, and the remaining 2 million was not given to the people, but as a fund to tongton Makut, which was formed by his father Lao Du, so as to better help Xiao Du rule the people in the future. This is not the most shameless, after all, these things have been done by his father and old Du, and the most shameless thing xiao Du has done is to sell blood and sell the blood of his own Haitian people.
In Haiti, there is a company called hemo-Caribbean Center, which specializes in selling blood, selling the blood of the Haitian people to the American Blood Research Center, delivering 1600 gallons (about 6056 liters) of plasma to the United States every month, earning a profit of 4-5 US dollars per liter, not only that, this company has never disinfected medical devices, and finally led to the spread of AIDS, tuberculosis, syphilis and other viruses in Haiti. But these do not matter in Xiao Du's eyes, after all, for successive Haitian presidents, making money is the primary task, and people's livelihood does not exist. Thanks to the continuous efforts of two generations, du du jr. and du lao, the Duvalier family's assets have reached 900 million US dollars, and there are 370 million US dollars in Swiss banks alone.
In stark contrast to the growing purse of the Duvalier family, the people of Haiti are exhausted, the people of Haiti are groaning in misery, the country as a whole is on the verge of bankruptcy, with foreign exchange reserves of almost 0,90% of the inhabitants earning less than $68 a year, a quarter of the people in the capital Port-au-Prince are reduced to beggars, and a large number of Haitians flee to the neighboring Dominican Republic and other countries every year. According to the United Nations, in the 1980s, the average life expectancy of Haitians was 47 years, the infant mortality rate was 18%, and 87% of children were malnourished. The illiteracy rate is as high as 75 per cent and the unemployment rate is as high as 50 per cent. In 1985, the state spent only 1 per cent of GDP at $3.70 per capita, while health funding accounted for only 0.9 per cent, or $3.44 per capita.
In 1983, xiao Du, who was only 33 years old, also followed his father's example and amended the constitution to make himself president for life. In 1985, Du Jr. was elected as the next president by cheating, with no other rivals, with 99.9 percent of the vote. But people's patience is limited, the Duvalier family is simply too deceitful, do not leave a way for the Haitian people to live, looking at this kind of low-IQ fraud, haitians can no longer bear it, from 1985 began to erupt large-scale protests and demonstrations, at the beginning, Xiao Du thought that as before, with guns to suppress it, but after shooting more than 1,000 people, the masses still did not stop, but intensified, even the people of Tongton Makut were beaten by the masses, Xiao Du realized the seriousness of the problem. At this time, the United States, which was on the sidelines, also began to worry that communism would take the opportunity to develop in Haiti, and in order to calm the people's anger, it urged the little fat man to quickly step down. So on February 7, 1986, they took refuge in France on an American military plane, and it is said that before leaving, Xiao Du and his wife did not forget to bring $120 million in cash.
At this point, the Duvalier family has withdrawn from the Haitian political stage, from the rise of the old Du in 1957 to the ouster of the little Du in 1986, the Haitians have spent nearly 30 years in the water, during which cruelty, poverty, fear, hunger, and death have been entangled in the people at the bottom and have been lingering for a long time. But don't think that after Duvalier's fall, life will get better for the Haitian people, in Haiti, poverty and instability seem to become a curse, and the successive presidents seem to be telling the world that you are too young to undo this curse.
Three Endless darkness
Although the little fat Man Duvalier fled abroad, the strength of the Duvalier family in Haiti is still vested, and they are spread throughout the Haitian army, police, and Tonton Markut, ready to make a comeback. So the whole country was roughly divided into two factions, one was the remnants of Duvalier's old forces, and some were anti-Duvalier people, in 1986, as soon as Du Du Jr. stepped down, the army took over the country, and a year later, Haiti began an election, but the army directly intervened, shooting and killing dozens of people, resulting in the direct interruption of this election. In 1988, another election was held, this time electing a Manigan man who advocated fairness and justice and opposed Duvalier politics, but he had no guns in his hands and could not contain the army, so he was ousted from power for 4 months.
After Maniga stepped down, less than a year later, Haiti launched 4 coups, and US President Clinton on the side really couldn't stand it, I allowed you to live behind my ass, but I didn't allow you to do it behind my ass. So Clinton sent troops to Haiti, and under the light of the "beacon of democracy", Haiti finally held an unprecedented election in 1990 that claimed to be the fairest and most open election since the founding of the country in 1804, electing a man named Aristide, who became the first democratically elected president in Haiti's history.
Aristide
This Aristide still had two brushes, a doctor of theology from the University of Haiti, who had previously taken refuge abroad because of his opposition to Duvalier, and now Hu Hansan was back. However, as soon as the elections ended, the remnants of The Duvalier at home threatened not to let him enter the presidential palace alive. Come, let's welcome it with applause as soon as possible, after all, if you applaud more slowly, it is likely to be dedicated to the next one.
Sure enough, as we expected, although he entered the presidential palace alive, less than 8 months after taking office, Aristide was ousted by the military and fled to the United States for refuge. After all, it was the United States itself, so stepping down to receive a box lunch was detrimental to the face of the United States, so in 1994 he was sent back to Haiti to continue to serve as president. I have to say that this time back Aristide became smarter, disbanded the army as soon as he came, leaving only 5,000 policemen, and after he returned, Aristide also began to be corrupt, suppress dissidents, and domestic violence was frequent. Yes, this classmate answered correctly, that is, similar to the experience of the old Duvalier, I said earlier that before the old Duvalier came to power, he was also a doctor who saved lives and helped the injured, full of love, and was sought after by the Haitian people, and as a result, after two years of further study in the United States, he came back to become the president of the United States, and I have to say that this America is really a magical place, a good young man with lofty ideals, after returning from there, he has become a hateful person.
Aristide later also had a conflict with the United States, the cause was that when the United States sent troops into Haiti to suppress in 1990, it took more than 100,000 pages of military armed information, Aristide wanted to ask the United States for this information, uprooted the opposition, but the United States did not give, but also urged Haiti to complete the privatization of state-owned enterprises as soon as possible, the two sides were deadlocked, until the end of Aristide's term in 1996, the United States did not support him, replaced by a person named René Preval came to power.
After that, until 2010, the Haitian political arena became Préval (1996-2000, 2004-2010) and Aristide (1990-1996, 2000-2004 after stepping down to South Africa) took turns to do the work, a bit of Russian Putin and Medvedev feeling, the two are actually the same party, called Lavalas House, but unlike Russia, although these two people in Haiti belong to the same party, but the concept of governance is not the same, Aristide refused to privatize state-owned enterprises, insisted on suppressing the opposition, and even sent guns to the militia, during his presidency, there were more conflicts in the country, and Préval came to power in order to be able to get American and international assistance, promote the privatization of enterprises, and also called on all parties in the country to reconcile, everyone sat down to drink tea and chat, there was something to discuss, if everyone trusted me in Préval, then put down the gun in your hand, I will issue you with a Haitian green card, you can get medicine and food for free.
After all, they were all elected by the Haitian people, and although the governing philosophy is not the same, on the whole, during the reign of these two people, they have made some contributions to the Haitian people, actively promoting education, developing the economy, and developing agriculture. But sadly, since the beginning of the new century, the country of Haiti has been cursed with frequent natural disasters. In September 2004, a hurricane struck Haiti that killed 3,000 people and left 200,000 homeless; From August to September 2008, four consecutive storms caused flooding and mudslides, and worse yet, in 2010, an earthquake once again pushed the Haitian people into the abyss.
On January 12, 2010 local time, Haiti, which was almost forgotten, suddenly made hot search headlines, because on that day Haiti had an earthquake of 7.3 on the Richter scale and the earthquake, originally you thought that the country was too poor to be poor anymore, since the earthquake, we found that there was indeed no lower limit for poverty in this country. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the capital, Port-au-Prince, where even the Presidential Palace was dilapidated, not to mention other old and dilapidated houses and slums, many ministers could not find it, the government was paralyzed (although it had been useless before), where a quarter of Haiti's population lived, and countless people were submerged in rubble. The entire country, which was still available in one hospital and belonged to Argentina, received 800 people in just one hour, and the entire country's electricity, communications and transportation were cut off and paralyzed.
After learning the news of the earthquake, countries around the world began to help. On the night of learning of the Earthquake in Haiti, China sent 68 rescue workers and more than 10 tons worth of relief materials worth 12 million yuan to Haiti, becoming the fourth country to reach Haiti after the United States, Iceland and Puerto Rico, you know, the mainland is 13,000 kilometers away from Haiti, rescue workers flew for 27 hours to reach Haiti, after that, the mainland also continued to send rescue to Haiti, as of January 20, a total of more than 70 million yuan worth of rescue materials, Here's a thumbs up to us in Greater China. Unfortunately, 8 Chinese killed in this search and rescue, and we will mourn for them here.
However, Haitian has not yet established diplomatic relations with the mainland, but has gone to Taiwan Province to look at each other, which is hateful.
The whole international aid continues to flow to Haiti, the country is only slightly stable, you know, just after the earthquake, there was a robbery incident, the whole of Haiti was unsupervised, when the international relief materials first arrived, they did not know who to dock with, squeezed in the port and airport, hungry Haitians rushed up to grab supplies, forcing rescuers to have to put a weapon on their bodies, otherwise they could not stop them. The quake also destroyed a prison in Port-au-Prince, 4,000 prisoners escaped, adding to social unrest, so violence, rape, poverty, hunger, helplessness once again filled the country, and the smell of death was everywhere in the air. As of Jan. 22, the earthquake had killed about 220,000 people, injured 190,000 and left 3 million homeless.
That is, after this, the Haitian people "eating soil" suddenly appeared on the news, into our eyeliner, people know that there are really people who are poor enough to eat soil, because Haitians really have nothing to eat, they can only make dirt into cakes, and then eat it, giving themselves a feeling of fullness, in fact, this soil is not digested at all, and finally it is easy to bloat and die. Haitians don't know, they know, but what can they do, it's better to be full of ghosts than to starve ghosts, the streets are full of adults and children looking for things in the garbage heap, people are defecating at will, the streets are filled with stench, and there are ruins and broken houses everywhere.
Earth cakes made by Haitians
Natural disasters, man-made disasters, let this country really rot to the bone.
Resigned to fate
After surviving the earthquake, Haitians waited for the 2011 presidential election, not knowing whether they were desperate for the government, and Haitians began to rot. This time, people actually elected a pop singer named Martelli to be president, which is a bit of a Ukrainian selection of comedian Zelensky as president. Looking at Martelli's resume, I can't help but laugh, before when I was a singer, in order to fight for the position, I actually dressed as a woman, wore a wig, and even wore diapers and skirts, which were called "little sweet" by the jianghu people and gained a lot of fans. Anyway, there are few normal presidents in The history of Haiti, who should not be, it is better to let the "little sweet" dang, so fans have voted, Martelli successfully became president. In 2012, Martelli also thought of forming a political party, but it was very tangled to take a good name, until he touched his hair, and then he had a flash of inspiration and named it "Skinhead Party". Compared with the Democratic Party of The United States and Japan, the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and so on, this party name is indeed grounded.
Sweetie smiled so sweetly
But Martelli's true identity is far from being as simple as it seems, he once opened a bar, met many politicians here, and was familiar with Duvalier and Préval, because of this relationship, when Du Jr. returned to Haiti from France in 2011, he was acquitted. Since Xiao Du is mentioned, I have to introduce the tragic experience of Xiao Fat Man in France.
Since absconding to France in 1986 with money, the little fat man's life has not been good, first the money in the Swiss bank was frozen, then he divorced his wife, a large amount of property and two children were taken away by his wife, only his 80-year-old mother and 5 watchdogs were left to accompany him, and he barely survived by the help of two sisters, and even because he owed too much phone bill, he was shut down by The French telecommunications company. In 2007, Xiao Du announced that he was homesick and wanted to return to Haiti, but at that time Préval disagreed, claiming that if Xiao Du dared to return, he would be arrested. It was not until During Martelli's reign in 2011 that Du Jr. returned to Haiti, but by this time he was no longer able to compete for the presidency, and three years after returning to Haiti, he died of a heart attack.
The one on the right is Xiao Du, who is no longer a little fat man
Then back to "Sweetie" Martelli, who has been in the name of "change" and "anti-corruption" since he came to power in 2011, but it seems to have no effect, and in 2015 Martelli designated Jophnell Moiz as the candidate of the skinhead party, that is, the president we mentioned at the beginning of the beating. Moiz was originally just a businessman in Haiti, in 2012 built the Caribbean's largest agricultural export zone, made more money, Moiz wanted to go to the political arena to share a piece of the pie, but in the 2015 election Moiz although won, it is reasonable to say that he should come to power on February 7, 2016, but the opposition did not recognize, until February 7, 2017 to take office, everyone remembers this time, and then Moiz died on this timeline.
Moiz's policies since coming to power have been similar to Those of Martelli, anti-corruption plus economic reforms, but for a man with no political experience, it is difficult and has touched the interests of so many people that Moiz even told the media that there are about 1 million people in Haiti who want to kill him.
In the final analysis, it is up to blame the Duvalier family and the United States behind it, although it has been 30 years since the fall of the Duvalier family at this time, but I have to admit that they have indeed deeply affected the development of the whole of Haiti, and haitians are no longer willing to return to that dictatorial day, so in 1986 it was stipulated that as long as the number of people exceeded 2,000 people, a political party could be established, and in 1987, the Haitian Charter (the previous constitution was played by Du Du and Du Xiao), implementing the separation of powers and weakening the power of the president. So we can see that all kinds of parties have been formed, everyone in Congress has it, you see I am not happy, I see you are not happy, and finally no instructions can be issued.
Moiz wants to implement his policy, Congress has become his constraint, just in 2019, Congress needs to re-elect, Moiz seized this gap and has been postponing the election of members of Congress, so that Congress is gone, and it is not all up to him. But this is not difficult for the domestic opposition, they seized the time of Moiz's term, saying that Moiz was successful in the 2015 election, supposedly 2016 came to power, 2021 should be over, but Moiz refused to step down on the grounds that he actually came to power in 2017 and should end in 2022, and the two sides did it, so there was the assassination of President Moiz in 2021. It is said that Moiz called the police chief for support before he was assassinated, but he waited for 10 minutes and was killed when he was about to make another call.
According to the Haitian constitution, after the sudden death of the president, there should be a president of the Supreme Court to succeed him, but the funny thing is that a month before Moiz's death, the president of the Supreme Court ascended to the sky one step ahead of the new crown, Moiz also said that he was going to attend his funeral, and as a result, a month later, he also burped, and it is estimated that the funeral will be held together, and the second half price. The president is dead, the most qualified to succeed the president is also dead, and only the prime minister can serve as the acting president first, but the prime minister has to go through the approval of the congress for the current president, but the congress is gone, and it is caught in a strange circle. What is even more ridiculous is that moiz reappointed a new prime minister two months before his death (in order not to make everyone more chaotic, I will not say the name here), the appointment has been issued, but the new prime minister has not yet officially taken office, so now Haiti has become two prime ministers, I don't know who will be the acting president.
Alas, Haiti's political circle is much more chaotic than our entertainment circle.
The whole Haitian management was a mess, top-down. Even the president can't protect himself, let alone ordinary people. Due to the infighting between the upper echelons, leaving a large power vacuum, Haiti is a mess, gangs are rampant, the government is corrupt, roughly estimated, there are at least 76 haitian gangs, the police have to take a detour, they sell drugs, sell children, kidnap, Haitians can see robbery, rape and shooting every day on their doorstep. In 2020, Haiti had only $8.35 billion in the whole year, only one-tenth of that of the neighboring Dominica, with a GDP growth rate of -1.2%, an inflation rate of 23.8%, an unemployment rate of 23.9%, and a per capita GDP of only $854, making it one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and even in the world.
In order to escape this life, Haitians fled abroad with their families and mouths. Hundreds of thousands of people have been smuggled into neighboring Dominica, causing the Dominican president to say that he will build a border wall of more than 300 kilometers to block Haitians outside, and now the two countries have closed their borders. The United States, which has always preached democracy and freedom, was also scared half to death, forbidding Haitians to go to the United States, so that Haitians can only smuggle the past, on May 12, 2022, a ship from Dominica to Puerto Rico overturned at sea, causing at least 11 deaths, and 31 others were rescued, mostly Haitian refugees, who were on a ship that was not suitable for navigation, and tried to illegally immigrate to the West Coast of the United States.
This is Haiti, a country that has been ridiculed by Biden as a "dung pit" even if it is drowned, scolded by Trump as a "dung pit", and denounced by mainland diplomat Geng Shuang for not wanting to make progress, a small Caribbean country that is too far from heaven and too close to the United States, a black republic that debuted at its peak but went all the way downhill, a hell where successive presidents want to make a profit, regardless of the lives of the people, full of violence and crime, rape and trafficking, slaughter and poverty.
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