Anacaona was born in Yaguana (now Léogâne) the flourishing capital of Xaragua in 1474. –
 She and Yuisa (who was from Loiza which is now known as Puerto Rico) were the two only females Taino Caciques. She was a member of a family of chiefs including her brother Bohechío who was Chief of Xaragua. She was married to Caonabo who was chief of Maguana (in Dominican Rep.). He and her brother were among the top 5 caciques. Queen Anacaona was an adept ruler, warrior, and diplomat who at first had friendly relations with the Conquistadors. The relationship soured, they betrayed her and accused her husband of attacking a Spanish settlement in Northern Haiti then shipped him off to Spain (he died during the trip). Governor Nicola De Ovando felt threatened by Anacaona’s stance and as a result she died a gruesome death.
She has become one of the first Haitian heroes and is regarded as Haiti’s founder.
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Anacaona te fèt nan Yaguana (kounye a Léogâne) kapital Xaragua nan 1474.
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 Li menm ak Yuisa (ki moun ki te soti nan Loiza sa yo rele Puerto Rico jodi a) yo te de sèlman fanm ki te chèf Taino. Anacaona te manm nan yon fanmi chèf, frè li te réle Bohechío, li te Chèf Xaragua. Li te marye ak Caonabo ki te chèf nan Maguana (Repiblik Dominikèn jodi a.). Li menm ak frè li te nan mitan 5 premye kasik yo. Rèn la te yon chèf abil, yon sòlda vanyan, ak diplomat ki te gen bon relasyon ak konkeran Panyòl yo. Relasyon an te vinn gate, yo trayi li, yo akize mari li nan yon zafè atak yon koloni Panyòl nan Nò Ayiti. Pou tèt sa, yo déside aréte frè li pou yo voye’l ale Espay (li tou mouri nan vwayaj la). Gouvènè Nicola De Ovando te santi li menase devan Anacaona, kòm rezilta, li touye li yon fason vreman orib.
Li vin youn nan premye ewoyin ayisyen e li konsidere kòm fondatè peyi Ayiti.
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Source/Soùs:Nouvelliste/Wiki
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On Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at exactly 4:53 pm Haiti was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter Scale. The main shock lasted about 30 seconds, and was followed by several aftershocks in the following weeks, including 8 within the next 2 hours with a magnitude going as high as 5.9 A tsunami was also reported in a small fishing town.
This crumbled Haiti’s already fragile economy, destroyed the infrastructures for the population’s basic needs, hospitals, hotels, cellphone towers, houses, buildings and last but not least, hundreds of thousands of humans’ lives were lost, haitian natives and foreigners. Many family were broken, parentless children. It left people with a lot of psychological damage and physical damage: mental health issues, depression, amputees, etc.

In front of that misfortune, social classes disappeared that day, instead “WE STOOD UNITED” we saw unity among the haitian people and lots of support from the whole world. “L’UNION FAIT LA FORCE” is the motto and the words on Haiti’s coat of arms and on that day It was alive!

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