Haiti: A Troubled People

Haitian culture is Indian, African slave, French, Spanish colonists. After Haiti got independence, there were many political and economic turmoil. As the Haitian settled in the United States many people became doctors, teachers, social workers, and experts. There are Haitian success stories, but there are more stories about failures and despair for the fear of being banished and the racial discrimination they encounter. Through the field of social work, I would like to help these people build up in this country.

After independence, Haiti announced that any slave who arrives at the coast of Haiti will be free and free from becoming a white landlord. Haiti provided financial assistance to the struggle for independence in South America and support to Simon Bolivar (although he has finished slavery in a new and independent country, Bolivar is the European Since cooperation, Haiti has been under imperialism since independence. Because America invaded the puppet government. In 2003, former Haitian president Jean - Bertrand Aristide requested France to pay Haiti $ 21 billion (90 million Franc for Haiti) to win independence. A few months later in 2004, President Aristide was told abduction by the Central African Republic with the help of the United States, Canada, and the French government, forced to resign and was unable to return to Haiti.

In the 21st century, the United States has made efforts to make Haiti more unstable and maintain its influence and resources. After the first democratically elected president of Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, the United States imposed an embargo to prevent Haiti from receiving $ 200 million in aid with aid. Later, the United States funded the organization trying to overthrow the Haitian government. These violations are not unique to Haiti. In 1973, the Nixon administration aggressively committed to weakening the Chilean government headed by democratically elected El Salvador Agendé. The United States imposed economic sanctions on Chile and funded Justa in Chile that is likely to be the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan administration solicited, trained and funded opposition campaigns to oppress Nicaraguan's Left Sandino regime. Today we can see US financing countries such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The new Haitian government faces major economic challenges. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Two-thirds of the 8 million citizens of Haiti are in poverty. Half of that adult population does not have literacy ability. Only a quarter of children attend school. Since the brief rise in the 1970s, the Haitian economy has experienced a steady decline due to greedy government policy and perhaps good-will but destructive international sanctions.