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Undated:Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called
Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba in
the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It occupies the western
three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti
In many ways, the hurricane season of 2008 was the cruelest ever experienced in
Haiti. Four storms--Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike--dumped heavy rains on the
impoverished nation. The rugged hillsides, stripped bare of 98% of their forest
cover thanks to deforestation, let flood waters rampage into large areas of the
country. Particularly hard-hit was
Gonaives, the fourth largest city. According to
reliefweb.org, the rains from 2008's four storms killed 793, left 310
missing, injured 593, destroyed 22,702 homes, and damaged another 84,625. About
800,000 people were affected--8% of Haiti's total population. The flood wiped
out 70% of Haiti's crops, resulting in dozens of deaths of children due to
malnutrition in the months following the storms. Damage was estimated at over $1
billion, the costliest natural disaster in Haitian history. The damage amounted
to over 5% of the country's
$17 billion GDP, a
staggering blow for a nation so poor.
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/haiti.asp
In many ways, the hurricane season of 2008 was the cruelest ever experienced in
Haiti. Four storms--Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike--dumped heavy rains on the
impoverished nation. The rugged hillsides, stripped bare of 98% of their forest
cover thanks to deforestation, let flood waters rampage into large areas of the
country. Particularly hard-hit was
Gonaives, the fourth largest city. According to
reliefweb.org, the rains from 2008's four storms killed 793, left 310
missing, injured 593, destroyed 22,702 homes, and damaged another 84,625. About
800,000 people were affected--8% of Haiti's total population. The flood wiped
out 70% of Haiti's crops, resulting in dozens of deaths of children due to
malnutrition in the months following the storms. Damage was estimated at over $1
billion, the costliest natural disaster in Haitian history. The damage amounted
to over 5% of the country's
$17 billion GDP, a
staggering blow for a nation so poor.
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/haiti.asp
December 17: Trump’s claim that a
Clinton-backed Haiti factory ‘amounted to a massive sweatshop’ ...
Trump’s attack against the Clintons’ involvement with a factory in Haiti has
emerged as a new talking point in recent weeks. We previously awarded
Four Pinocchios to a claim from Trump’s supporters and a surrogate about the
Clintons’ role in Haiti, so we wanted to check out this new talking point.
In 2011, the U.S. government entered into an agreement for an economic recovery
project with the government of Haiti, the Inter-American Development Bank and
Sae-A Trading Co., a South Korean garment manufacturing company. The IHRC
approved the project, called Caracol Industrial Park. It included a power plant
and a Sae-A garment factory, built on 600 acres of farmland, and officials said
it would
create tens of thousands of jobs.
The Clintons were enthusiastic supporters of the project. They connected Haitian
government officials with Sae-A. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top
aide Cheryl Mills lobbied South Korean officials and hosted Sae-A executives to
press for the project,
The Washington Post reported. Bill Clinton appeared at a contract-signing
ceremony with Sae-A and laid the first stone when construction began. The
Clintons attended the ribbon-cutting in October 2012.
The decision ends a period of limbo Haitians have been under since May, when the
administration announced it would extend Haitians’ TPS for six more months but
strongly implied that Haitians should “get their affairs in order” and plan to
leave when the six months were up.
November 21: Haitian immigrants on Tuesday
decried a U.S. decision to end a program that granted 59,000 Haitians temporary
visas after the 2010 earthquake, saying they would be sent back to a country
that has yet to recover from that disaster and others since.
The administration of former President Barack Obama extended the program several
times, finding that conditions in Haiti were too dire to send the beneficiaries
home. President Donald Trump’s administration, after previously granting a
six-month extension, announced on Monday that it would end TPS for Haiti in July
2019.
December 5: Tijuana's Haitian migrants seen
as models for caravan members
Since more than 6,000 Central American migrants arrived to Tijuana this
November, the city’s residents and politicians have lauded the Haitian community
as an example of how to assimilate to life in Mexico.
