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to the way in the capital of port to pulse. for most people in hate. violence can find control of the st. skyrocketing prices for food. i mean most people are hungry and miserable to google, but yeah, a couple of minutes. yeah, yeah. yeah. do do more fun. we do the do see what. yeah. do. boss, this is all some of the i'm on till he is a freelance journalist from haiti. temple probably might be more for the few lessons. you're also going to be watching. let's use a full tank of v in the country. keep nothing. so 6 fluency on, they did, you know, the start of, hey, the story is quite inspirational. it had the world's only successful slave revolt leading to the world's 1st black republic. so what happens? let's just say colonialism. play that sparks and all these big players amongst others were involved. so let's unravel how the world a mess with katie and what that means for today.

this is haiti slag. now, this is what it used to be when it was still called santa monica. yes, that's the french black. when the black slaves broke free of their french masters, they remove the white stripe from their flag. we presenting an end to white european power. a bit of white lay to reappear the flag, but with haitian symbols. but let's start at the beginning or at least what europeans consider at the beginning of haiti. it was actually christopher columbus was the 1st colonial player to set foot on the island of law. his fun, your he landed in what is now called most on me. cool. lot on november, 6th, 1492, claiming its for spain. at the time, half a 1000000 indigenous people were living on the island, the by the mid 17th century, most of those indigenous people were gone. europe was crazy for coffee. and so,

and this part of being island promised both a ranch slots, spain for control. the 2 colonial powers ended up splitting the island into the spanish calling me of santo domingo. is today. the dominican republic and the french santa monica later became hayden. the french brought an african slaves for the grueling grove on sugar came sensation by 1880 had a population of more than 700000. overwhelmingly, people from west africa that was very kind of the ball body and assist of slaves what it would be 10, etc. rubbish. that is a professor of politics at the university of virginia born and raised some parts of homes. 80 has been at the center of his research for decades. the expectation of slaves was lucrative. some of them all became friends, most hospitable calling me in the american slave labor plantation supply,

but roughly 40 percent of sugar imported to europe. at the time. it was a brutal system, both for the and slave humans as well as the eco you can still see the effects today. just look at these ariel images on the border with the dominican republic. on the dominican side, you can see less porous and green law. on the haitian side, the land is barren trees gone. back to the french colony of santa monica. by the end of the 18th century, the slaves had had enough. not surprisingly, they revolted and made history. with lucian is something that all haitians of a proud of, i mean it persist. i mean, this is one of the, as we say in fresh meat found that the, you know, the founding mit the end. it's one thing that keeps us going. in 18 o 4, he became the 1st black republic in the world. so far, so good. oh,

but it came with a price, a crippling one. first i so license. nobody wanted to do business with a new nation. the new black republic was cut off because nomics surrounded by the colonies of powerful nations using slave labor, who feared their slaves could also be built. katy was the 1st black republic recently enough for some of its powerful neighbors to refuse to even trade with a new nation. because you know, racism and from republican revolutionary france demanded ab pay for its independence. having loss of lucrative source of sugar from salt reprobation. a staggering sum of 150000000 francs and go over the next century . have you pay the equivalent of between $20.13 us dollars

with a massive debt. how much of a chance did the young republic even have after independence? haiti suffers from the burden of preparations from isolation, but also from poor government. a series of bad government's leaders added to the country's misery. i believe that there is such a thing as a new partner, new stick, and ultimately did for you mental convergence of interest between the huge and the rulers and the international community. the interest of the hero shows and the interest of the for empowers is not necessarily the same, but the ultimate consequence of the converge. unfortunately, convergence is that it is definitely meant also because so both domestic and international factors have led to the devastating status quo. and hating a symbol for that is successfully,

the densely populated neighborhood of popular pulse is now in near complete control of gang nearby as the frontal hospital center. in november 2023 heavily armed gang storm, the hospital and threatening to people inside. it's the environment of a really, our people are trying to it to survive and, and where violence is completely a normalized right now. the godaddy in works at the international crisis group, a non governmental organization committed to conflict resolution. you recently traveled to haiti the security situation, rapid se deteriorated in july 2021. back then hades, presidents of a native maurice was killed by columbia. in most scenario, it's unclear who paid the last time a haitian president was killed, was in 1915 that the assess of nations opened the chapter for an intervention which still impacts heavy today. that's the same. yeah. us marines landed and part of

officially us forces were there to restore order. but washington also wanted to block european powers on the island from tapping into haiti's resources. so we owed some money to the us backs and the instability, you know, he gave a free text with united states to move in with the marines. and the 1st thing they did was going to the central bank of he take the reserve of the central bank, put it on the boat, and set it back to new york to see the back. and that's the way it was. us troops stayed for 19 years, but their footprints are still visible today. what happened with the occupation was the centralization of power info press. and the most important element to was the creation of a centralized army, which became very much the options are of politics for very long time. you know,

have the us occupation back locally, leads and trained local security forces. those forces with later back various machines, including the brutal dictatorship of francois pod, talked about he and his son, baby talk. this led to a situation where hastens became suspicious of power. and up until today, there is a vacuum of power with haiti, edging closer to failed states that was a symbol for that, the national palace, the official residents of the president, was destroyed in haiti's, devastating earthquake and 2010. the ruins were even then removed and the palace never rebuilt. dep doctor rebuild rebuild but nothing has happened. there were construction that was published never materialized money. it was one. ready one year was stolen and again, foreign influence plate, it's parts maybe with good intentions, but again with a bad outcome for foreign powers. wanted to bypass corrupt officials and gave the 8

direct me to n g o. the dispute became, you know, kind of a very weak structure then people were working in the state just started moving into the end, yours. so when you evans, yours everywhere, no one controls the government loses its its essence. and once you have that, there is no, you know, so we moved from very this poor degrees. the reason that i was looking for anything, all of this lead to the situation today. no president, no functioning parliament, just the acting prime minister, the only with no real power. one of the worst crisis haiti has ever seen. that's why all the has, once again, turn to the international community and ask the un for help. yet another international player. resume one more, let me show you. this is for the initial 4 customers. and i the

last time that the united nations intervened and heavy things went horribly wrong. this is haiti's main water service. the occupant needs with it. and this is precisely where the last un mission took a devastating turn in 2010 un peacekeepers mainly from the pipe sets up camps here. just above the stream, flowing into the out. people need to river a few days later, close by suddenly the 1st called the right cases appeared. investigations later found that the un soldiers had unintentionally released infected sewage into the stream flowing into active. we'll need to river, leading to a color outbreak that costs 10000 nights and spread across the country. the and there was never really any type of restitution for doing that. so there is a very bad base in the, you know, in the,

in, in, for that kind of intervention. the un mission that was supposed to bring stability and security to haiti. that's the country in 2017. so what does all of this mean for today? how's the world abandon heavy for good? and our haitians even flat, about not quite in 2022, the prime minister called for a new international security mission to come to haiti's to crack down and gang violence as long as kenya has offered to lead a new u. n. back from move to national mission that could soon deploy to haiti. yeah, a lot of it now please give me a good one more moment. but allow me to allow me is that if, if there's a shed is enforcing cause of us to let's see the community

a physical address of the c. so the, the for the last is still unclear. the idea is to send just a small group of highly trained police steps to restore order and secure a key infrastructure such as a country's main airport. so yes, now the international communities, realizing that it must change the way it has acted in the way it has and intended to help the thought to gain control some 80 percent of culture punks. they are well armed and know the terrain. even if international forces are welcomed at 1st, that could change quickly. so there might be fog be cheap portfolio intervention. but i think that should be. busy may be very short lived if it is not

a very effective intervention. in other words, it may well come to. but if they kept this stop each ball into fairly quickly, i think they put pollution will turn against the 4 haitians. the new mission raises once again, the question, will it bring improvement or damage the country in the long run? a question with no answer yet, but hastens habit resilient past to cling onto the the wall is this a little as it was going up is on the trucks it because it goes to this year. the news that vehicle is good. one of the best of luck on that one, you know, while you a lot of multiple quick shows, but the said, you saw the 80 clearly will face

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