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Haiti History, Present and Future
On 12th January 2010, at 1653hrs local time, Haiti was rocked by a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Reichter scale. The immediate event rocked a wide area with an epicenter near Lougane, approximately 16 miles from Haiti capital of Port Au Prince. Afterwards, shock waves spread in an area with radius of 50 miles were recorded (Farmer & Mukherjee, 2011). The Haiti government report estimates the total number of missing people and those whose bodies were discovered at above 300,000. In addition, more than 3 million people were displaced from their homes.
Various international agencies have discredited the government estimates as grossly overrated, placing the death tolls at between 100,000 and 160,000 (Varadarajan, 2010). Four years since the disaster, more than 1.5 million Haitians were still living in camps by the end of year 2013. This paper will explore Haiti’s history regarding its relations with foreign nations particularly France and the US, and how that history has manifested in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake to render the country incapable of containing the catastrophe four years later despite considerable international aid (Office of the Historian, U.S., 2014).
France colonized Haiti since 1660, and invested considerably in slave colonies and other property. The Haitian revolution of 12 years led to partial freedom of Haiti from France (Dionne, 2004). However, the French sent a consignment of warships and tanks to Haiti in 1825 to negotiate payments by Haiti to France in war reparations in 1825, totaling 150 million Francs ($21billion). In return, France promised to recognize the independence and sovereignty of Haiti. Obviously, the negotiations were not conducted on an obj...

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