News Haiti Investment: Invade Haiti, Wall Street urged. The US obliged
In the drowsy hours of a December afternoon, eight United States Marines strolled into the headquarters of Haiti’s national bank and walked out with $500,000 in gold, packed in wooden boxes.
News Haiti Investment: Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation
We look in depth at “The Ransom,” a new series in The New York Times that details how France devastated Haiti's economy by forcing Haiti to pay massive reparations for the loss of slave labor ...
News Haiti Investment: How (and Why) We Calculated the Value of Haiti’s Payments to France
Last June, when we were well into our investigation into Haiti’s payments to their former French slave masters, our trail seemed to be diverging in a thousand directions. In 182 ...
News Haiti Investment: French Bank to Study Its Role in Haiti After Times Report
The C.I.C. bank siphoned millions in fees and interest from the island’s treasury in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an investigation found.
News Haiti Investment: How a French bank captured Haiti
Debt had smothered the country for more than a half-century. Despite ousting its colonial rulers in a war of independence, Haiti had been forced to pay the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars to its former French slave masters, a ransom for the freedom it had already won in battle
News Haiti Investment: World Bank, Haitians putting challenged nation on a more prosperous and resilient path | Opinion
There’s a well-known Haitian proverb, Se lè ou nan bezwen, ou konn ki moun ki zanmi ou. It means a true friend will always be ready to support you in the most difficult times. Haitians have suffered terrible misfortunes in recent years, and enormous challenges remain, but there are many good reasons for hope — and I’m grateful for the recent opportunity to travel to Haiti and pledge the World ...
News Haiti Investment: Haiti - North : Towards the revitalization of tourism
Luz Kurta Cassandra François the Minister of Tourism, Madam, carried out a mission in the North on December 30 and 31, 2021, in order to assess the actions necessary for the ...
