THE MAKING AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HAITI

Haiti is the world’s oldest black republic and the second-oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States. Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movement of many Latin American countries and securing a promise from the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain.

Haiti is the only African Republic in the Caribbean, and it was the Spanish, the French, and the British that made it what it is to day. The African people from Africa were slaves when they entered Haiti as plantation workers, and in those great days of their lives, they were treated badly. Their blood and sweat was left on the land and about one million people had to be sacrificed to make Haiti – Haiti. Now they live freely and poorly of what their ancestors had to endure. Once upon a time Haiti was the richest country in the Caribbean. They flourished in many ways. They were able to grow their own food and they made money from that, but they were always unfortunate in many ways, and their rulers made it that way.

The people of Haiti are still poor and they are longing for some one to love them and some one to take care of them and hold them tightly in their arms. That is their great wish! Bless them!