Haiti
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| Location | Caribbean Sea |
| Type | nation state |
| Caribbean country; shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. The poorest country in North America, Haiti has faced natural disasters, economic crises and political instablity for many years. | |
Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It is the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribbean. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
History
Clinton foundation
Child trafficking
In January 2010, after a big earthquake, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive confirmed child and organ trafficking:
CNN (Christiane Amanpour): "About the children.... tens of thousands of them, maybe hundreds of thousands, have been separated from their families. Many of them families dead, families lost, families moved out. What is being done to corral these children, to register them, to make sure no further harm comes to them?"
PM Jean-Max Bellerive: "It's one of the biggest problem that we have. And this morning, uh, during the coordination meeting in the international community, [I] address[ed] the question of the adoption, because I have a lot of petitions for that. But they have to be very ... cautious, because there is a lot of trafficking in that."
CNN: "Illegal child trafficking."
PM: "Yeah. Uh, even if, uh, it seems to be legal. But a lot of organizations, they come and say 'There were children on the streets. We are going to bring them to the states.' And we have already reports of lot of trafficking, even of organ trafficking. "
CNN: "Of organ trafficking? Now?"
PM: "Now. Already."
CNN: "Of the victims of the earthquake? Do you know that for sure?"
PM: "Yeah, I know that for sure. And it was discussed in Montreal during the conference."
CNN: "And do you know for sure that children are being trafficked?"
PM: "Now there is, uh, children trafficking for children and adult person also because they need all type of organs."
CNN: "No, but I mean live children. Are they being trafficked?"
PM: "Now, the report I Recieved, [Yes]"[1]
2021
After rejecting the COVID vaccine, Haiti's President, Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021.
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