I’m from South Africa, a country that this channel recently labelled a failed state and I have to say sometimes I look at Haiti to remember that things could be worse, but also as a warning at how far we could fall from our already tough situation. Praying for the people of Haiti that one day they’ll sort out their issues and live in prosperity and peace
@toyotaprius79 in all fairness most states who blame the west for modern day issues are just scapegoating the west for their own corrupt politicians but it's clear Haiti has been seriously wronged by the international community and we do have a collective responsibility to help them
SA is a failed state, mfwethu. Haiti looks like any township in SA. The only reason its failed state doesn't look like Haiti is because the private sector is keeping it afloat. And we all know who runs the private sector, don't we?
I think most countries with national parks do, I don’t think it’s like an environmentalist group it sounds like they’re in charge of guarding protected areas from poachers and unregulated businesses like lumber and mining. Could be wrong, but it’s not unusual
@@rampage241 oh for sure, it’s not typical for them to be so powerful, I just meant a lot of countries have armed wings of their environmental agencies or something similar of it
As a suggestion, when you talk about murders, kidnappings, etc. you should also show those values as a ratio of the population, for example, 80 murders for every 100.000 inhabitants. Just to get a clear view of how the situation compares to other countries with bigger populations.
and broadcast it to your OWN government because nobody else cares. we are all kn charge of our OWN lives and nations. we are not to have anything to do with and give money to every crap hole in the world
@@frederickhargro5153 Haiti is too unstable for anyone to financially invest in, even before the chaos the government was too corrupt for any proper infrastructure development, similar to how little to none of the money giving for the earthquakes actually made it to rebuilding. It needs to be fully rebuilt from the ground up, but as long as the people keep choosing corrupt officials, the nation will never truly recover.
their own fault, if it's not just another fake psy-op, which it seems like it is. but it's up to them to fix it NOT the US or any other nation. if they can't fix it then oh well, that's the circle of life.
This is well-researched and accurate. Missing a few key details, but that happens when trying to condense Haitian history and current events into a 10 minute video. Good job.
@509LM Right. There had been pressure for him to resign 5 months before he was assassinated. And Claude Joseph was the last "legitimate" PM (depending upon who you ask), but following the assassination, he was pushed aside in favor of Ariel Henry by the US and other foreign powers.
@@genius11433 The political crisis existed way before the president died. His election was highly contested and never accepted by a huge part of the political class and population. In addition to that, his term in office was rocked by anti corruption protests over misuse of Petrocaribe funds by Moise and his predecessor from the same political party. Plus the gang issue was already started to surface as well. One major road that leads to the southern peninsula, RN2, in Martissant was closed by gangs. Also what they call now the G9 was used by previous administrations to suppress protests. Their leader Jimmy Cherizier is a former police officer.
This is why there is a large Haitian expatriate community in the USA. They're not interested ingoing back to a place where anarchy is literally the norm (think tribalism but much deadlier).
I don't blame them. A lot of questionable people, trying to hold them back from success. When the bad behavior and dishonesty goes unchecked for so long: Their society runs a deficit. And eventually, the bill collector shows up.
@@jontaedouglas7244 The Germans came to the American colonies in large numbers due to the effects of the Thirty Years War, which pretty much decimated what is now modern Germany. Interestingly, a large fraction of the Italians that immigrated to the USA came from southern Italy and Sicily in search of a better life; that's why Italian-American food is more related to southern Italian cuisine than the Italian cuisine you see in central and northern Italy today.
@@Sacto1654 exactly. And it was the same song. Americans at the time saw them as “dirty” “disease riddled” “violent” and those people went on to help industrialize the America we have just as migrant workers are doing for the agriculture sector today. So I don’t get why so many of us Americans are hung up on immigration when without it our population would be on par with Russia, Japan, and China
@@Aydin-Adamthey don’t want no one to know what’s actually going on. If you type in creole you’ll get all the information you need to know. You would’ve got the news directly from Haitians in Haiti raw unfiltered.
@@somethinglikethat2176 Thats what happened when the modders assassinated the legit devs team. Without proper knowledge of the source code, nor a simple server maintaining process.
I usually play on Greece for the large amounts of starting land with the little actual territory, it lets me stay as an uninteresting target for beginners.
Keep in mind, the great majority of haitis government were living in south Florida when their terms expired and they made NO ATTEMPTS at going back to haiti to establish governance. NONE
@@Alepfi5599 from meriam Websters website: a: absence of government b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority Anomie could be used to describe the situation in Haiti, but personally I think anarchy fits better
The situation in Haiti is indeed concerning, and it's important that it's being highlighted. It's great to see discussions and awareness about global issues like this. Understanding the complexities of Haiti's situation can lead to more informed conversations and, hopefully, actions that can support positive changes. It's a reminder of how interconnected our world is and the importance of global empathy and support. Let's hope for better days ahead for Haiti. 🌍✨
Great video as always. Thanks for the good work 👏. In Guy Philippe, Guy is not pronounced as Guy in English. In the French world its pronounced like (Gee) as in ghee😊
@@B3Band as a general rule, you pronounce names as the natives unless there is equivalent with different spelling in your tongue mate. Like Jane D'Arc becomes Joan of Arc or Guillome becomes William and Michel becomes Michael etc. If its the same spelling, pronounce as the natives that will avoid confusion. I was with a friend Yves in London and an attendant kept calling Aivess Aivess, we didn't know who she was calling, he's name is pronounced Eaves as in Adam and Eve. That made mispronounciation made us waste more than an hour because they thought he was absent.
My wife and I worked on an island in the Bahamas. In the next office were the RBDF (Bahamian Defense Force). They would regularly zoom off in a speedboat and arrest Haitians trying to sneak past in their sailboats packed with up to 100 people on board. They were carrying things to start a new life in the States; like a bottle of rum to sell. They were supposed to burn the sailboat and tow the dinghy(lifeboat) to shore and all food and drink was to be destroyed. Well we found a stash of rum and we managed to drink a bottle. It was the finest.
The same Haiti wanted to colonize Dominican Republic, yet Dominican Republic is now the most prosperous country in carribbean & Haiti is almost a failed state.
Dominican republic the most prosperous country in the Caribbean🤣? How uneducated are you on the caribbean. 🇩🇴 although not in the same boat as haiti is far too crime ridden and impoverished to be the most prosperous. What a delusional joke
I propose that we force the entire Haitian community that lives outside of Haiti to go to Haiti to fight for their country. As a Dominican, I am tired that my country is the one that receives the most of Haiti's problems.
Especially if outside powers work to keep it a failed stated. Wasn't bill Clinton that admitted destruction of the Hatian rice culture to give Americans farmers a chance?
4:19 That basically what happens at the end of a Brain Drain scenario. The people who can do the job aren't able to. Because the bad people keep holding them back. Sometimes they aren't allowed to make a living at all. So, they just emigrate somewhere else.
Haitian American here and it’s just a storm that never ends and it’s turning into a typhoon as I watch from afar what is happening. I have family and friends in Haiti, my one grandmother cannot return to Haiti which she spent her life traveling from America to Haiti as the seasons changed because of how bad the situation is. Things are gonna get so bad and so many innocent people are gonna get hurt and it’s just so fucking tired
@@grandtheftavocado I was born here in the United States. My grandfather became a political refugee after the U.S backed Papa Doc who then started to violently make the political opposition disappear so he fled for his life and my grandmother followed. For that matter who are you to tell random civilians to go there and . . . “Help” in whatever that means
@@1threat03 there are only 2 international airports in the country, one in the capital which again is not safe enough and one in O-Cap which is the northern part of the country and nowhere near where she needs to go. So maybe do a bit of homework or ask questions before you just assume things
I don't know how Haiti can emerge from this situation. The gangs are too powerful to defeat without armed intervention, but foreign interventions in Haiti have historically been disasters. I think the solution may be somewhere in between. The international community needs to do their best to fund and support an official Haitian government while also giving them the power and ability to defeat the gangs.
The best outcome would be one of the factions actually want to clear house and make proper state institutions and the Haitian community lobbies other nations to help said faction. However, I don't think Haitian community has enough lobbying power and there is none of such faction in Haiti. Because of that, it will continue to be chaotic till we get such combination of factors.
@@fernandestime8797 I was able to travel to Haiti with my missionary group last year. I can tell you that the gangs are potent forces; some act at the will of corrupt politicians. There are entire areas of Port-au-Prince that are out of the control of what remains of the Haitian government. We had to communicate with gang members to pass through certain city zones. I can only compare the situation to insurgency warzones such as Afghanistan and Syria. The gangs are now more akin to paramilitary forces rather than traditional street gangs. It is terrible, and I encourage you to look more into the situation because it is one of the most tragic in the Western Hemisphere.
@@bscottb8you know perfectly well what being forced to pay reparations to wealthy slave plantation owners for Haiti's independence has brought. To call Hatis emancipation from slavery as ancient history speaks volumes of the level of your understanding, for your contempt and racist character.
Video forgot to mention why France forced Haiti to pay such a debt. It was because after independence there remained 4000 French citizens and the new gov decided to disappear them and since they didn't hide it the entire world found out and agreed to make Haiti pay for that crime.
As many of the comments have pointed out: Helping Haiti would be like tossing money onto a homeless drug addict with mental issues; the money won’t go where you think it will; it’s not about the money or giving him a home he won’t be able to maintain, but his underlying psychiatric and sociological issues. It’s a country where applying the “tossing money” policies may seem like solving something while keeping the illness uncured. Ideally it should be built up from its roots up not only economically but culturally, and that’s incredibly hard and incredibly costly. The US can’t even solve its “Chicagos” and “Los Angeles” problems and it’s in no position to lecture or solve other countries’ issues. It can only keep it from becoming a problem to others. Obviously basic needs need consideration, but there will be no cure that doesn’t come from Haitians’ own ideation. Democracy? The sole concept is based on structures that don’t exist on such a country (or others), that’s why it never worked (and it won’t work) and whatever you can impose that could mimic it, will merely create some covert corrupt tyrant who will “always win” via elections’ fraud (until he is toppled or killed, replaced by another corrupt honcho).
Uh, countries having issues doesn't suddenly mean it can't help other countries with far bigger issues. This is pure cope used to justify isolationism.
@stephenjenkins7971 And? Everytime America intervenes, everyone hates them for it including the country being intervened. Let them sort out their own problems.
Furthermore, this video has literally nothing to do with either the Dominican Republic or Haiti Dominican relations. Why would it be added. That's like if someone gave a brief 2 minute summary of Japanese history for an economics video and you saying "very convenient that they left out the imjin war"
So what is the actual aim of these gangs? Presumably they're not criminals hoping for profit, because you can't really make money from crime without a functioning society. So are they political factions, each supporting a different would-be leader? If so, who are these would-be leaders?
It should be thought of more as feudalism. A formal centralized government has no monopoly on force, therefore smaller-scale feudal lords (warlords if you prefer) fill the power vacuum. The line between a feudal government and an extortion racket is basically non-existent.
Organized crime isnt neccesarily seeking money, it also seeks power. As the other person said, the crime gangs are more equivalent to warlords, fighting for power and control.
The news sign behind you flickers. Make sure the camera is at an 60 hz multiplicative exposure. either 1/30, 1/60 or 1/120 or youll get flicker. If its too bright, use a darkening filter, if its too dark, add more studio lights.
For people blaming France: - Haitian did a genocide, killing their masters was justified, killing women, children and every europeans that had nothing to do with slavery wasn't. The debt was a good deal to get away with it. - The debt was big, because Haïti was during colonial time, a massive money machine. Haitians officials that signed the deal thought they could repaid the debt without difficulties once they get access to European markets again. Turn out, murdering the people who knew how to run the plantations and logistics wasn't a great idea. - Corruption and the lack of an efficient administration was a far bigger problem than the debt. - Afrer the debt was fully repaid (mostly to US banks btw) in 1947, Haiti didn't developed either. Is France blameless ? No Do Haïti, is responsible of itself ? Definitely yes, they are no children and are not under military occupation.
@@HgHg-yp6ftdebt that does not come without extortionate conditions and interest servicing. Don't forget the recent coup either coinciding with IMF loans
horse shit. did the americans have to pay reparations to GB after the revolution on the scale that haiti did? what about the algiers to France? Central africa to Belgium? Americans tarred and feathered british loyalists leaving them to suffer slowly and agonizingly. Not only this, reports of slaves murdering their masters have already been shown to be widely exaggerated, haiti couldnt pay back its debt properly because many countries feared recognizing a country formed by slave revolt would spread to theirs, and haiti didn't develop after paying their "debt" because all their resources were used to pay interest to their debtors. haiti never owed anyone a debt, the french just pointed a gun at them and said to pay it or else. Its extortion by empires and nothing less.
It never gets sorted out. They'll start to dig out of their last disaster then another earthquake will destroy 90% of the country again, in the past they've been able to retain a semi-functioning government as they try to recover, but they don't even have that anymore, Haiti has no functioning government anymore. This time may be the end for Haiti, the place is so cursed it would probably be for the best to evacuate the non-criminal civilian population to other countries and glass it forever.
It's curious how the Brazilian army spent years in Haiti and now the Brazilian media doesn't even mention the country. Lula is back in power and doesn't seem to care much about the country either.
My wife really is mad that I support The Dominican border wall. As a Hispanic Jew I'm more for my Hispanic brothers than I would ever be for my wife's birth country of haiti.
@@openlyracist8055 That's why the US just launched a massive bill to curb border migration and frontex's budged increased 100 fold? because they dont care about border security?
They killed all the French and whites in general, then they invaded their neighbor and acted like colonizers themself. The Dominicanos know very well what are Haitian’s true colors. There is nothing French in their legacy except their language and thus they can only blame themselves for their shitty situation and not France. Look at Martinique and Guadeloupe that have the highest standards of living in the region and then see if the problem is France or not.
Nah, as far as colonies go, Spanish? Get genocided. English? Get genocided. Belgian ? Same Dutch aya not good, plenty of the same as others. This kind of discourse is rubot talk mate. Or iranbot azeribot same thing. You're just doing their job fam.
Guys, maybe your add/ segments could be bit shorter. You can make it more ‘smart’ to the point, like your videos, instead of dragging those until viewer gets annoyed and stops it before it ends
I can't watch these from beginning to end. They do every video with the same formula which makes them repetitive. Sure we learn something but it's fucking JADED.
It's too far gone for that, it has no functioning government, it is literally in a worse position than Somalia or Afghanistan. About the only places on earth worse than Haiti right now are Gaza or the front lines in Ukraine. Basically it's the worst place on earth that isn't an active war zone, and even saying it isn't a war zone is a stretch.
It really doesnt, the gangs in Haiti dont exist under the same context that the Salvadorian ones did. In Haiti’s case, the gangs oftentimes cooperate with police
I'm from Florida and we have a very large Haitian community. Several of my friends are from there and told me what a living hell Haiti is. I'll never forget hearing how some of them had to literally eat mud cakes to stop from feeling ill with hunger. There's so much our government could easily do to help them and yet they still seem to ignore it.
Compared to the 20th or 19th century, this one has been a breeze, believe it or not could be A LOT worse. The 2010s were unusualy peaceful, what we are seeing now is the back to normal side of humanity.
@@Ozama1221 ever since we realized a guy with a pointy stick can take stuff from others it all went downhill. Hopefully we stop someday, I don't think we'll be alive to see it
Doesn't the nation/country have to be united for it to have a civil war? Dozens of gangs dividing territory and the government doing nothing is not really a civil wat.
Sure, but it never easy know people true intentions, "you can vote for monarchy, but that asume that will get you king Arthur pendragon instead of Vlad the Impaler"
Lol, I also thought of Bukele. But a strong man doesn’t have to be elected. It could even be one of the gang leaders. Just defeat all the other gangs and become a responsible leader.
Look at both parties and decades of American corporations not just the Clintons, they are apart of it but I roll my eyes when people point fingers at them and ignore the entirety of American influence in the country
The fact that the environmental agency has armed itself is crazy 😂 By the way is that really how you pronounce Haiti in English? I would think it would be more like Ha-i-ti, not Hey-ti (I'm not a native English speaker)
Just to point out the "probably" US and French backed coup in 2004 was right after the president started asking for some of the money Haiti had paid for their own freedom over the past 2 centuries back.
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I’m from South Africa, a country that this channel recently labelled a failed state and I have to say sometimes I look at Haiti to remember that things could be worse, but also as a warning at how far we could fall from our already tough situation. Praying for the people of Haiti that one day they’ll sort out their issues and live in prosperity and peace
Sorting out issues that Haiti inherited since its independence from France is the whole reason they had decades of interference in their Democracy
@toyotaprius79 in all fairness most states who blame the west for modern day issues are just scapegoating the west for their own corrupt politicians but it's clear Haiti has been seriously wronged by the international community and we do have a collective responsibility to help them
The ANC sure has done a good job in South Africa to make it feel like the rest of Africa.
@@lewis123417 Yeah, but there doesn't seem to be any possible plan that would result in stability being brought back.
SA is a failed state, mfwethu. Haiti looks like any township in SA.
The only reason its failed state doesn't look like Haiti is because the private sector is keeping it afloat. And we all know who runs the private sector, don't we?
Today I learn that Haiti has an environmental agency that has an armed wing...
@@momytik fr, attacks on fossil fuel infastructure will start to hapåpen and more millions die due to that industry
I think most countries with national parks do, I don’t think it’s like an environmentalist group it sounds like they’re in charge of guarding protected areas from poachers and unregulated businesses like lumber and mining. Could be wrong, but it’s not unusual
@@Catmint309the difference here is that Haiti doesn't have an army so the armed environmental agency has relatively huge power militarily.
@@rampage241 oh for sure, it’s not typical for them to be so powerful, I just meant a lot of countries have armed wings of their environmental agencies or something similar of it
It’s like the American Park Rangers for national parks.
As a suggestion, when you talk about murders, kidnappings, etc. you should also show those values as a ratio of the population, for example, 80 murders for every 100.000 inhabitants. Just to get a clear view of how the situation compares to other countries with bigger populations.
and broadcast it to your OWN government because nobody else cares. we are all kn charge of our OWN lives and nations. we are not to have anything to do with and give money to every crap hole in the world
The problems of Haiti are so vast and overwhelming, nothing short of divine intervention can help them.
People are in Despair. All they are jobs so they can survive and be independent. They just want to be able to work.
@@frederickhargro5153 Haiti is too unstable for anyone to financially invest in, even before the chaos the government was too corrupt for any proper infrastructure development, similar to how little to none of the money giving for the earthquakes actually made it to rebuilding.
It needs to be fully rebuilt from the ground up, but as long as the people keep choosing corrupt officials, the nation will never truly recover.
Interventions never solve anything they just leave power vaccums behind
@@Joel-wx7zk this is why they are doing a revolt against the system that America has istalled since they invaded in the 1900s
@@frederickhargro5153last I checked, foreign investment is illegal is Haiti, and has been since independent.
Another reminder that worse is always possible.
As Haiti consistently demonstrates.
@@mfmf100demonstrates what? Have y’all been to Mexico or Ecuador??? Do y’all know how many countries have slums? India ? Pakistan? Etc ?
their own fault, if it's not just another fake psy-op, which it seems like it is. but it's up to them to fix it NOT the US or any other nation. if they can't fix it then oh well, that's the circle of life.
This is well-researched and accurate. Missing a few key details, but that happens when trying to condense Haitian history and current events into a 10 minute video. Good job.
One correction I’d make is that the current crisis did not start in 2021 with Jovenel’s assassination.
@509LM Right. There had been pressure for him to resign 5 months before he was assassinated. And Claude Joseph was the last "legitimate" PM (depending upon who you ask), but following the assassination, he was pushed aside in favor of Ariel Henry by the US and other foreign powers.
should also be noted that Guy Philippe has denied any CIA backing or involvement in the 2004 coup.
@@509LMCan you please explain? I would like to know more. What was the start of the crisis, if not the assassination of the president?
@@genius11433 The political crisis existed way before the president died. His election was highly contested and never accepted by a huge part of the political class and population. In addition to that, his term in office was rocked by anti corruption protests over misuse of Petrocaribe funds by Moise and his predecessor from the same political party. Plus the gang issue was already started to surface as well. One major road that leads to the southern peninsula, RN2, in Martissant was closed by gangs. Also what they call now the G9 was used by previous administrations to suppress protests. Their leader Jimmy Cherizier is a former police officer.
Let me get this straight: Haiti’s equivalent to national park rangers have evolved into a paramilitary force.
Just normal subsaharan things
@@TomorrowWeLive "The literal price of freedom" according to propagandist/"comedian" John Leibowitz.
@@TomorrowWeLiveonly that haiti is technically in North America ...and not in Africa...just like other carribean countries
This is why there is a large Haitian expatriate community in the USA. They're not interested ingoing back to a place where anarchy is literally the norm (think tribalism but much deadlier).
I don't blame them. A lot of questionable people, trying to hold them back from success.
When the bad behavior and dishonesty goes unchecked for so long: Their society runs a deficit. And eventually, the bill collector shows up.
We don’t want them here
The same for Poles, Germans, Irish, and Italians when they immigrated here when their nations were in turnoil
@@jontaedouglas7244 The Germans came to the American colonies in large numbers due to the effects of the Thirty Years War, which pretty much decimated what is now modern Germany. Interestingly, a large fraction of the Italians that immigrated to the USA came from southern Italy and Sicily in search of a better life; that's why Italian-American food is more related to southern Italian cuisine than the Italian cuisine you see in central and northern Italy today.
@@Sacto1654 exactly. And it was the same song. Americans at the time saw them as “dirty” “disease riddled” “violent” and those people went on to help industrialize the America we have just as migrant workers are doing for the agriculture sector today. So I don’t get why so many of us Americans are hung up on immigration when without it our population would be on par with Russia, Japan, and China
Thank you . This was most likely the first report explaining whats going on in Haiti that is understandable
And also unbiased. Hard to find on TH-cam.
@@Aydin-Adamthey don’t want no one to know what’s actually going on. If you type in creole you’ll get all the information you need to know. You would’ve got the news directly from Haitians in Haiti raw unfiltered.
As a Mexican I hope things in Haiti can get better 🙏
The Dominican Republic might want to strengthen their border security if a civil war in Haiti is about to pop off
They already are with building a border wall
we have over 12,000 soldiers at the border right now. they are sending more every month.
We're building a wall too.
Haitians and Dominicans want nothing to do with each other ON THE ISLAND.
DR is building a wall currently
It's a wonder all Haiti players haven't ragequit by this point already.
Idk why people play on those servers. Too difficult to be fun.
@@somethinglikethat2176
Thats what happened when the modders assassinated the legit devs team. Without proper knowledge of the source code, nor a simple server maintaining process.
France, the UN and the US definitely have, and they were the only players.
Haiti players?
You mean the US and France?
I usually play on Greece for the large amounts of starting land with the little actual territory, it lets me stay as an uninteresting target for beginners.
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@@momytik China breaking apart in a Bill Wurst video
Kenya help
I guess Port-Au-Prince will be the closest we get to a real-life GTA San Andreas
Thats not fair, GTA San Andreas is like a first world country in comparison
San Andreas is more peaceful than what Port-Au-Prince is at the moment...
Just like bideo game 🤪
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131you are DEAD WRONG!!!💀💀💀 XD.
More like far cry
This is becoming a bigger problem regionally as more Haitian refugees have been arriving in Jamaica, Bahamas & elsewhere in the region more & more
So also Cuba if there a civil war
In DR we already have millions, you will use to it ;D
We received approximately 14,000 Haitians here currently in Springfield, Ohio, USA.
It’s not Haiti in Jamaica
Haitians stop in Jamaica to go to Florida and Jamaicans are importing drugs into haiti
Guard UP DR!
Keep in mind, the great majority of haitis government were living in south Florida when their terms expired and they made NO ATTEMPTS at going back to haiti to establish governance. NONE
Lebanon: "Man, my economy is crashing, there are armed clashes and to top it all off I don't have a president!"
Haiti: "Hold my beer."
Lebanon is worst because the whole country is a war zone. The only war zone in haiti is the capital city!!!
There is a substantial Lebanese community in Haiti, ironically
@@moderatecanucksome of the wealthiest people in the country are Syrians and Lebanese actually
Funny because Haitians of Lebanese decent are arming the gangs
I dont know if civil war is the right term, that kind of assumes theres a functioning government. I think anarchy is better personally
You don't know what anarchy means than. You are talking about anomie.
@@Alepfi5599 from meriam Websters website:
a: absence of government
b : a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority
Anomie could be used to describe the situation in Haiti, but personally I think anarchy fits better
Misuse of a comma.
@@AwesomeHairo ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sue me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
So, a war being fought by people of the same state wouldn't fit the term of a civil war? Are you actually serious?
Everyone knows its a mess, but very few real solutions.
The situation in Haiti is indeed concerning, and it's important that it's being highlighted. It's great to see discussions and awareness about global issues like this. Understanding the complexities of Haiti's situation can lead to more informed conversations and, hopefully, actions that can support positive changes. It's a reminder of how interconnected our world is and the importance of global empathy and support. Let's hope for better days ahead for Haiti. 🌍✨
Great video as always. Thanks for the good work 👏. In Guy Philippe, Guy is not pronounced as Guy in English. In the French world its pronounced like (Gee) as in ghee😊
We are speaking English though. There are plenty of foreign names that get "converted" when speaking English. This is a common one.
Just like names from English speaking countries are often "converted" when visiting or living in other countries.
@@B3Band as a general rule, you pronounce names as the natives unless there is equivalent with different spelling in your tongue mate. Like Jane D'Arc becomes Joan of Arc or Guillome becomes William and Michel becomes Michael etc. If its the same spelling, pronounce as the natives that will avoid confusion. I was with a friend Yves in London and an attendant kept calling Aivess Aivess, we didn't know who she was calling, he's name is pronounced Eaves as in Adam and Eve. That made mispronounciation made us waste more than an hour because they thought he was absent.
My wife and I worked on an island in the Bahamas. In the next office were the RBDF (Bahamian Defense Force). They would regularly zoom off in a speedboat and arrest Haitians trying to sneak past in their sailboats packed with up to 100 people on board. They were carrying things to start a new life in the States; like a bottle of rum to sell. They were supposed to burn the sailboat and tow the dinghy(lifeboat) to shore and all food and drink was to be destroyed. Well we found a stash of rum and we managed to drink a bottle. It was the finest.
Gangs strive where the state is absent.
Mafia is privatized local government.
The gangs are sponsored by the government
@@jesseberg3271 lol, mafia can't win against everybody, but gangs can win against no state, capitalism debunked
Since the 1950s, Haiti has been on civil war continuously!😂
Great video. I hope things in Haiti improve.
The same Haiti wanted to colonize Dominican Republic, yet Dominican Republic is now the most prosperous country in carribbean & Haiti is almost a failed state.
bec Haiti is now colonized by the US.
How ironic. The DC would make a much better usage of the other half of the island.
no haiti is definitely a failed state, not almost ☠️
Ironic, because DR is not even good and is plagued by corruption and political incompetence
Dominican republic the most prosperous country in the Caribbean🤣? How uneducated are you on the caribbean. 🇩🇴 although not in the same boat as haiti is far too crime ridden and impoverished to be the most prosperous. What a delusional joke
Love your work, TLDR. Always extremely comprehensive, providing loads of context and not afraid of going deep.
I propose that we force the entire Haitian community that lives outside of Haiti to go to Haiti to fight for their country. As a Dominican, I am tired that my country is the one that receives the most of Haiti's problems.
Would Haitians even notice if they had a civil war?
no
Its like daily life for them…
"A rebel leader is calling for armed revolution."
Well as long as he's not super hot I'm sure no one will listen OH MY GOD HE'S A YOUNG DENZEL
lmao what
It's an old pic
@@fernandestime8797 God, I hate when they do that.
Come on now. Was there ever a time where the situation in Haiti was not critical?
Yes, under French rule.
@@Adam-326Was pretty critical time for the slaves considering French rule resulted in a very bloody revolution
@@oohforf6375 Who cares about them? The country was fine and relatively stable.
@Adam-326 Ah yes. So stable that the slaves staged a revolt. Whatever you said colonizer
@@Adam-326"Who cares about them", said the french soldier before he got publicly hanged
"Heading" ????
I just kinda assumed they've been in a state of constant civil war since 1957.
No Haiti never be like that only place the gangs can go is only In the capital
When has it not? It’s been a failed state for decades
Especially if outside powers work to keep it a failed stated. Wasn't bill Clinton that admitted destruction of the Hatian rice culture to give Americans farmers a chance?
Haiti needs a nayib bukele
4:05
It's called "Bwa Kale."
I've seen a bit of it over social media. And I don't blame them.
4:19
That basically what happens at the end of a Brain Drain scenario.
The people who can do the job aren't able to. Because the bad people keep holding them back.
Sometimes they aren't allowed to make a living at all. So, they just emigrate somewhere else.
Excellent reporting on this complex situation. Thanks.
Haitian American here and it’s just a storm that never ends and it’s turning into a typhoon as I watch from afar what is happening. I have family and friends in Haiti, my one grandmother cannot return to Haiti which she spent her life traveling from America to Haiti as the seasons changed because of how bad the situation is. Things are gonna get so bad and so many innocent people are gonna get hurt and it’s just so fucking tired
You should go back there and help your homeland
@@grandtheftavocado I was born here in the United States. My grandfather became a political refugee after the U.S backed Papa Doc who then started to violently make the political opposition disappear so he fled for his life and my grandmother followed.
For that matter who are you to tell random civilians to go there and . . . “Help” in whatever that means
@@StephySon So you’d rather live in a country created by whites than a country created by your ancestors?
Bro only way your mom can’t travel back is if she going to the capital bc only the capital bad everywhere else bad
@@1threat03 there are only 2 international airports in the country, one in the capital which again is not safe enough and one in O-Cap which is the northern part of the country and nowhere near where she needs to go. So maybe do a bit of homework or ask questions before you just assume things
Oh yes Voudouman. I have heard of him. He is a real life Superhero who uses Voudou in Haitian Gotham. They say he is a Haitian Batman.
I don't know how Haiti can emerge from this situation. The gangs are too powerful to defeat without armed intervention, but foreign interventions in Haiti have historically been disasters. I think the solution may be somewhere in between. The international community needs to do their best to fund and support an official Haitian government while also giving them the power and ability to defeat the gangs.
The best outcome would be one of the factions actually want to clear house and make proper state institutions and the Haitian community lobbies other nations to help said faction. However, I don't think Haitian community has enough lobbying power and there is none of such faction in Haiti. Because of that, it will continue to be chaotic till we get such combination of factors.
The gangs are very weak. This all a manipulation
Nah just let natural selection sort it all out
@@fernandestime8797 I was able to travel to Haiti with my missionary group last year. I can tell you that the gangs are potent forces; some act at the will of corrupt politicians. There are entire areas of Port-au-Prince that are out of the control of what remains of the Haitian government. We had to communicate with gang members to pass through certain city zones. I can only compare the situation to insurgency warzones such as Afghanistan and Syria. The gangs are now more akin to paramilitary forces rather than traditional street gangs. It is terrible, and I encourage you to look more into the situation because it is one of the most tragic in the Western Hemisphere.
@@roborob347cap bro
Failed state doing failed state things.
While blaming it all on ancient history. Alas, the French, the French....
Failed state or US & French coups and corruption?
@@bscottb8you know perfectly well what being forced to pay reparations to wealthy slave plantation owners for Haiti's independence has brought. To call Hatis emancipation from slavery as ancient history speaks volumes of the level of your understanding, for your contempt and racist character.
Coming soon to a developed country near you
@@toyotaprius79you can only blame white people for so long, my dude.
Video forgot to mention why France forced Haiti to pay such a debt. It was because after independence there remained 4000 French citizens and the new gov decided to disappear them and since they didn't hide it the entire world found out and agreed to make Haiti pay for that crime.
Didn’t know that. Good comment
Yet France has done way worst to Haiti prior to that, nobody made them pay.
Well as a invading nation, after A RACE FIGHT nail and tooth, it’s pretty stupid those French ppl stayed…. Go home
intro volume is fucking perfect now, love it
Realistically, how can the national community fix Haiti? It seems like it’s pretty over to me.
Wow this place is insane, those poor people, I don’t understand how anything is functioning at all, like utilities, infrastructure, collecting taxes 😳
As many of the comments have pointed out: Helping Haiti would be like tossing money onto a homeless drug addict with mental issues; the money won’t go where you think it will; it’s not about the money or giving him a home he won’t be able to maintain, but his underlying psychiatric and sociological issues.
It’s a country where applying the “tossing money” policies may seem like solving something while keeping the illness uncured. Ideally it should be built up from its roots up not only economically but culturally, and that’s incredibly hard and incredibly costly. The US can’t even solve its “Chicagos” and “Los Angeles” problems and it’s in no position to lecture or solve other countries’ issues. It can only keep it from becoming a problem to others.
Obviously basic needs need consideration, but there will be no cure that doesn’t come from Haitians’ own ideation. Democracy? The sole concept is based on structures that don’t exist on such a country (or others), that’s why it never worked (and it won’t work) and whatever you can impose that could mimic it, will merely create some covert corrupt tyrant who will “always win” via elections’ fraud (until he is toppled or killed, replaced by another corrupt honcho).
Brk stfu u talking nonsense
Uh, countries having issues doesn't suddenly mean it can't help other countries with far bigger issues. This is pure cope used to justify isolationism.
@@stephenjenkins7971 You didn't read my comment then. Or don't understand text.
@stephenjenkins7971 And? Everytime America intervenes, everyone hates them for it including the country being intervened. Let them sort out their own problems.
Haiti will always be like this, it’s been like this for 200 years and will continue 🤦🏻♂️ sad
Before I even watched this I guessed there were 3 possible outcomes!
Africans ruining everyt😂
My country used to be like Haiti, except that we have no natural resources, no plan or at times look like we got no hope.
How convenient how you left out the part when Haiti invaded DR for 22 years
Is this a war against DR? No? Then that's irrelevant to the current crisis
it doesnt fit their narrative
The Dominican Republic did not exist at that point, it was a Spanish colony.
Furthermore, this video has literally nothing to do with either the Dominican Republic or Haiti Dominican relations. Why would it be added.
That's like if someone gave a brief 2 minute summary of Japanese history for an economics video and you saying "very convenient that they left out the imjin war"
I'm Dominican and even I don't think it makes sense to bring that up on this specific video. It's just not relevant for what is being explained.
Regrettably, that unfortunate country has always been troubled, even in the best of times.
I'm sure the Dominican Republic ain't liking this
They should act as a temporary refuge before sending those fleeing to Sweden, Germany and France
@@ouya_expert Or the U.S
Of course and that's why they're fending themselves by building a border wall.
@@ouya_expertI hope you're joking...
They have white effect 😂
Seems like that’s going to be like that everywhere soon.
So what is the actual aim of these gangs? Presumably they're not criminals hoping for profit, because you can't really make money from crime without a functioning society. So are they political factions, each supporting a different would-be leader? If so, who are these would-be leaders?
Nothing....those gangs are just bored asf with nothing productive to do with their lives so they wanna destroy everyone else's with their selfishness.
It should be thought of more as feudalism. A formal centralized government has no monopoly on force, therefore smaller-scale feudal lords (warlords if you prefer) fill the power vacuum. The line between a feudal government and an extortion racket is basically non-existent.
Organized crime isnt neccesarily seeking money, it also seeks power. As the other person said, the crime gangs are more equivalent to warlords, fighting for power and control.
They are dying over blocks of a broken city, it’s sad
Well actually you can make money in Haiti if you kidnap people and extort them their last coin
you should make a video on the rare-earth minerals found in Wyoming and how this affects the US and Chinese positions
It might be Celerium, just like what Raul Menendez used to help create Cordis Die and pit the US and China against each other in COD Black Ops 2.
The news sign behind you flickers. Make sure the camera is at an 60 hz multiplicative exposure. either 1/30, 1/60 or 1/120 or youll get flicker. If its too bright, use a darkening filter, if its too dark, add more studio lights.
Wouldn't they need a 50Hz multiple?
They should also stop using a pro mist filter. It makes me wanna check my eyes for gunk
You people are such snobs ultra lmao, based and camerapilled
@@linusfotografSo that's what that is. It certainly doesn't help.
Haiti just cant get a break
For people blaming France:
- Haitian did a genocide, killing their masters was justified, killing women, children and every europeans that had nothing to do with slavery wasn't. The debt was a good deal to get away with it.
- The debt was big, because Haïti was during colonial time, a massive money machine.
Haitians officials that signed the deal thought they could repaid the debt without difficulties once they get access to European markets again.
Turn out, murdering the people who knew how to run the plantations and logistics wasn't a great idea.
- Corruption and the lack of an efficient administration was a far bigger problem than the debt.
- Afrer the debt was fully repaid (mostly to US banks btw) in 1947, Haiti didn't developed either.
Is France blameless ? No
Do Haïti, is responsible of itself ? Definitely yes, they are no children and are not under military occupation.
Yep, 100% on target.Also Haiti has received over 13 billion dollars of foreign aid in the last 10-12 years alone.
@@HgHg-yp6ftdebt that does not come without extortionate conditions and interest servicing. Don't forget the recent coup either coinciding with IMF loans
@@HgHg-yp6ftwhere do you think the money is now
horse shit. did the americans have to pay reparations to GB after the revolution on the scale that haiti did? what about the algiers to France? Central africa to Belgium? Americans tarred and feathered british loyalists leaving them to suffer slowly and agonizingly. Not only this, reports of slaves murdering their masters have already been shown to be widely exaggerated, haiti couldnt pay back its debt properly because many countries feared recognizing a country formed by slave revolt would spread to theirs, and haiti didn't develop after paying their "debt" because all their resources were used to pay interest to their debtors. haiti never owed anyone a debt, the french just pointed a gun at them and said to pay it or else. Its extortion by empires and nothing less.
@@dVector13 Pleure plus fort on ne t'entend pas en France 😂😂
Haiti has been a chaotic hell throughout its history. It cannot become a normal country.
Calling for revolution when no one is in charge, wtf does that even mean.
Whoever wins, they lose.
I hope the current chaos in Haiti gets sorted out soon.
It never gets sorted out. They'll start to dig out of their last disaster then another earthquake will destroy 90% of the country again, in the past they've been able to retain a semi-functioning government as they try to recover, but they don't even have that anymore, Haiti has no functioning government anymore. This time may be the end for Haiti, the place is so cursed it would probably be for the best to evacuate the non-criminal civilian population to other countries and glass it forever.
It's curious how the Brazilian army spent years in Haiti and now the Brazilian media doesn't even mention the country. Lula is back in power and doesn't seem to care much about the country either.
I know all that about Haiti what I didnt know is that Haiti has an armed environmental agency😅Greta and the green movement should fund these people
The Haiti PVP only server be wildin lately. Haiti mains are playing on tarkov difficulty
😑dude I grew up with this lingo but to put it here is just crazy lmao gg no re
My wife really is mad that I support The Dominican border wall. As a Hispanic Jew I'm more for my Hispanic brothers than I would ever be for my wife's birth country of haiti.
Its in the DR’s interests to keep their population safe so good for them
@@Juan-qu4oj Funny the USA and Europe don't like the idea of border security, but the rest of us do.
@@openlyracist8055 That's why the US just launched a massive bill to curb border migration and frontex's budged increased 100 fold? because they dont care about border security?
Gracias hermano 🙏.
It seems like the only solution for Haiti is to become another El Salvador even though we know it's problems
Being a French colony is one of the worst things that could possibly happen to a country.
They killed all the French and whites in general, then they invaded their neighbor and acted like colonizers themself. The Dominicanos know very well what are Haitian’s true colors. There is nothing French in their legacy except their language and thus they can only blame themselves for their shitty situation and not France. Look at Martinique and Guadeloupe that have the highest standards of living in the region and then see if the problem is France or not.
Nah, as far as colonies go, Spanish? Get genocided. English? Get genocided. Belgian ? Same Dutch aya not good, plenty of the same as others. This kind of discourse is rubot talk mate. Or iranbot azeribot same thing. You're just doing their job fam.
Canada did fine
Quebec wasn’t ruled by France since 1760 and from the UK from 1760-1865
England did fine too... For being a french colony I mean, of course as a colonizer they were among the worst.
2:45 Minecraft Glass Break sound effect
The number of trolls in the comments is concerning.
its expected on a channel like this and on videos like these. lots of 14 year old edgelords
Guys, maybe your add/ segments could be bit shorter. You can make it more ‘smart’ to the point, like your videos,
instead of dragging those until viewer gets annoyed and stops it before it ends
I can't watch these from beginning to end. They do every video with the same formula which makes them repetitive. Sure we learn something but it's fucking JADED.
“The EPA, but they’re armed to the teeth”
Sounds good in theory, not so good in practice
Jimmy BBQ 4 President
Haiti needs to go the way of El Salvador.
It's too far gone for that, it has no functioning government, it is literally in a worse position than Somalia or Afghanistan. About the only places on earth worse than Haiti right now are Gaza or the front lines in Ukraine. Basically it's the worst place on earth that isn't an active war zone, and even saying it isn't a war zone is a stretch.
It really doesnt, the gangs in Haiti dont exist under the same context that the Salvadorian ones did. In Haiti’s case, the gangs oftentimes cooperate with police
So you’re saying Haiti needs a “cool dictator”?
@@StephySon yes.
@@epikpapers1984 how about no. We’ve had dictators before
The lesson of Haiti - Dr William Pierce
I'm from Florida and we have a very large Haitian community. Several of my friends are from there and told me what a living hell Haiti is. I'll never forget hearing how some of them had to literally eat mud cakes to stop from feeling ill with hunger. There's so much our government could easily do to help them and yet they still seem to ignore it.
not everything is our problem, we've got a lot of issues of our own that need solving
Why do Americans have a savior complex? We're 33 trillion in debt, we need to solve our own problems.
To what end? to be called colonizers again? to set up the country for success only for it to fall to pot, AGAIN?
Everyone begs America to solve their stupid problems, only to use them as a scapegoat afterwards
As a Haitian, it's not up to US to help us, and it's better if they don't.
Haiti is so broken even the people I talk to who blame the US for Haiti's problems have been real quiet.
This truly marks a decade defined by wars.
Compared to the 20th or 19th century, this one has been a breeze, believe it or not could be A LOT worse. The 2010s were unusualy peaceful, what we are seeing now is the back to normal side of humanity.
@@rafael_lanawhy is war "normal" for us humans. Why can't peace be normal??
@@Ozama1221 ever since we realized a guy with a pointy stick can take stuff from others it all went downhill. Hopefully we stop someday, I don't think we'll be alive to see it
@@Ozama1221 Because war is "normal" for nature to begin with. Humans just have brains, so they upped the ante.
But Conan O’Brien told me it’s safe and a great tourist spot
Where is barbacue?
Doesn't the nation/country have to be united for it to have a civil war?
Dozens of gangs dividing territory and the government doing nothing is not really a civil wat.
Haiti needs a leader like bukele to root out the country's misery.
And the question is : will they elect somebody like him?
Sure, but it never easy know people true intentions, "you can vote for monarchy, but that asume that will get you king Arthur pendragon instead of Vlad the Impaler"
Lol, I also thought of Bukele. But a strong man doesn’t have to be elected. It could even be one of the gang leaders. Just defeat all the other gangs and become a responsible leader.
responsible leader...after wiping out everyone?@@TheBooban
I think every nation should take the Bukele approach.
I'm taking control of the country by myself
All I know is this isn’t an American problem so we should stay out of it
It is. All those migrants. But US totally sucks at nation building. Totally. Don’t have the guts to do what needs to be done.
It is, your government sends weapon to DR ports and then they are sent to Haiti
It is a human problem. Do you even consider for once that people outside the US are humans too?
Is it not an American problem? where guns are coming
@@shadowfighter8861 yeah but why should we stick our noses in everyone’s business? They wanted to run their country. So let them.
It's Haiti.
It makes sense why Kenya wanted to send troops now
You didn't mention the honourable work of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti.
Look at both parties and decades of American corporations not just the Clintons, they are apart of it but I roll my eyes when people point fingers at them and ignore the entirety of American influence in the country
Oh right they kidnapped a bunch of kids I forgot about that
Plus, Clinton absolutely destroyed the Haitian agricultural industry by flooding Haiti with cheap American grain.
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Is there actually any proof of this? Or is this just Qanon BS?
@@stephenjenkins7971 not everything is qanon. Also I don’t know but given everything else the Clinton’s have done it wouldn’t supprise me
Cool 👍
Poor Haiti 😢❤
Wait a slave colony was forced to pay with debt for emancipating themselves from their slavers. Thats just unreal.
It might have something to do with the genocide of whites and the seizure of their property.
Open history books ans shut your mouth ...
The fact that the environmental agency has armed itself is crazy 😂
By the way is that really how you pronounce Haiti in English? I would think it would be more like Ha-i-ti, not Hey-ti (I'm not a native English speaker)
Bruh news been talking bout this for a decade straight. Eventually I guess😂
The place is already horrible and now they will make it worse?
It appears that any bold man with a certain set of skills may now carve out his own personal fief in this fallen land
Not me but some people may
The Taliban
Would anyone notice the difference if there was civil war?
Average former French colony 😅
Haiti can’t get a break can they
Imagine making a country to pay for wanting independence…
Imagine actually paying once the oppressors are gone
Well, they needed their money back. It’s fair.
@@andycockrum1212They would’ve come back for round 2
as Indonesian, we can relate
but unfortunately Haiti didn't have the luxury to play both side during cold war because it's too close to USA
@@לעזאזלעםגוביידן למה שמך ״לעזאזל אם ג׳ו ביידן״? למה בעברית?
Just to point out the "probably" US and French backed coup in 2004 was right after the president started asking for some of the money Haiti had paid for their own freedom over the past 2 centuries back.