The United States has been the overwhelmingly dominant influence in Haiti’s political and economic development over the past century. The US military occupied Haiti from 1915-34.

In Maniche, a commune in southern Haiti, rice production is rebounding after years of decline linked to trade policies ...

The Trump administration is using Haiti's "widespread" gang violence, along with the State Department's recent decision to ...

President Trump’s remarks last week about Haiti and African countries ignited a firestorm, but they accurately reflect the attitudes that have long shaped U.S. policy toward Haiti.

The United States’ relationship with Haiti has been troubled for hundreds of years and is really one of the causes of — not of the earthquake itself, which would have devastated any place, but ...

A short film about 1990s Haitian refugees in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay aims to engage younger Haitian Americans with their ...

Dessalines Day is a point of pride in Haiti, a time to commemorate the revolutionary hero who defeated Napoleon’s troops, abolished slavery and in 1804 established the first free Black republic.

American policy decisions are vital to understanding Haiti’s political instability, and why it remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. By Chris Cameron In September 1994, the ...

An original sin from the era of revolution continues to color U.S. policy toward Haiti. Jan. 28, 2023, 8:23 AM EST. By Nayyera Haq, MSNBC Columnist.

On a recent episode of The View, Sunny Hostin slammed U.S. policy amid the Haiti migrant crisis, sharing at the table that it has, “always been corrupt.”. Thousands of Haitian migrants have ...

U.S. policy toward Haiti is in flux, amid chronic crises in the ravaged Caribbean nation and increasing domestic political pressure on the Biden administration to deliver a diplomatic breakthrough.

U.S. policy in Haiti has been inconsistent at best, observers and insiders say, swinging from maintaining order at gunpoint to decades of propping up repressive, reviled leaders through political ...