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[ad_1] As President of Haiti, he was intended to be a figurehead for the mulatto ruling class. Pierrot’s most pressing duty as the new president was to check the incursions of the Dominicans, who were harassing the Haitian troops along…
[ad_1] President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the slum priest, resigned today under intense pressure from the United States and the threat of an invasion of the capital by armed insurgents, fleeing by jet at dawn under heavy American guard. – President Bush…
[ad_1] In early 1930, President Hoover appointed a bipartisan commission headed by W. Cameron Forbes, formerly the Governor General of the Philippines, to investigate conditions in Haiti and the reason for ongoing minor rebellions in Haiti. After several weeks in…
[ad_1] Here’s an interview made on February 18th 2004, Aristide’s last Interview, at the Palais National, before being ousted, he talks about the situation before the “military coup” and the situation of the country with hints on political interference. Notice…
[ad_1] The group of Dominican independence fighters was Called “La Trinitaria” (“The Trinity”), this organization was composed of Spanish Creoles, mulattoes, and blacks, they were led by Juan Pablo Duarte, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella. Independence was…
[ad_1] After the departure of the Duvalier regime in 1986, the color of the flag reverted to the Blue and Red. According to a few sources, the people requested the return of the red and blue flag. On February 25…
[ad_1] Between 1964 and 1986, the family dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Dessalines’ black and red design. They included the national coat of arms, but altered the flags in its trophy to black…
[ad_1] News of the murder soon reached the American Navy ships anchored in the city’s harbor. President Woodrow Wilson, who was wary about the turn of events in Haiti, and especially the possibility that Bobo would take power, ordered American…
[ad_1] Sam fled to the French embassy, where he received asylum. The rebels’ mulatto leaders broke into the embassy and found Sam. They dragged him out and beat him senseless then threw his limp body over the embassy’s iron fence…
[ad_1] Born 4 March 1859 in Ouanminthe, Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam’s presidency was marked by mounting chaos and violence that resulted in the occupation of the country by U.S. Marines. Sam was proclaimed president when his predecessor, Joseph Davilmar Théodore,…