Why Haiti is Dying & the DR is Booming

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[@josezuniga4814]

I feel like France doesn't get enough flak for its colonial history like Britain does. By far the former French colonies are some of the worst performing states in the modern day compared to former British and even Spanish colonies, and France continues practices of modern colonialism to this day.

[@fighter5583]

It's quite funny when you realize Britain's former colonies would grow to become stronger than itself.

[@ballgang367]

Algeria was pretty well ran but that's about it though

[@tytsuw2320]

yes because France didn't move into its colonies

[@PrimericanIdol]

Russia is helping the former French vassals of West Africa to finally decolonize and become truly independent.

[@PrimericanIdol]

​@@fighter5583Same with Spain and Portugal. Mexico and Brazil are much larger economies than their parent nation.

[@ziggamon]

I was deployed to Haiti in 2010 after the earthquake hit. That was the first time I've ever experienced pure anarchy, chaos, and complete poverty when we left the airport.

[@aidanhart9871]

A shame you couldn't go before the earthquake to see it was much the same 😅😅😅

[@Tethloach1]

A society that has had many challenges.

[@rustyshackleford3316]

You can't fix stupid.

[@CodexIndia1]

Well at least you got to experience the UN run children prostitution and help spread a cholera epidemic.

[@looseygoosey1349]

@@aidanhart9871 lmao that was brutal.

[@teodelfuego]

“On the brink of becoming a failed state.” On the brink? Sounds like the brink is in the rear view mirror at this point

[@skyyy4570]

ur 3 months too late bro

[@hotcauldron7918]

Makes no differences. They are already a failed state

[@jmorel42]

Definitely a confirmed failed state now

[@metalkixjr7582]

that is comedy gold

[@teodelfuego]

@@skyyy4570 my comment was based on the information in the video which was published three months before my comment. So, I’m not sure what you’re on about, but you do you

[@jeffbeland3280]

tl;dr: France is punishing Haiti for achieving independence through a slave revolt. France still doesn't want to talk about it.

[@alanalb1449]

France doesn't give a shot about them, the habitants of haiti are the problem

[@doudouelias7077]

Everything to you is France? America doesn't belong to France but to American ah ha do you get it?

[@nukfigrs6621]

based

[@EatSumMorChkin]

@@doudouelias7077 Tf are you saying

[@jenniferwilliams9548]

​@@doudouelias7077we have no clue what you're saying

[@redox6548]

The history of Haiti is just *'wait, it gets worse'* Truly unfortunate chain of events

[@TheSouthIsHot]

😆

[@therealmaiku]

Yea. It's really unfortunate that France and US decided to kidnap Africans and slave them in their colonies. Also unfurtonate that after just few time after freeing from them they came back robbing the country at gunpoint. And definitely unfortunate that when democracy was starting to work and they were claiming justice and restitution the US and France decided to support criminal groups to start a civil war.

[@mazvitaselemani]

I literally cringed at one point. It's absolutely disturbing just how unfortunate the state has been

[@spence6195]

Black people deserve a better world without them evil colonizers

[@derklebob8161]

Any country with black people in it is just 'wait, it gets worse'

[@anabelledagher]

as a dominican living in the dr, i thank you for doing this video and shine light on this topic, since i feel it has been poorly covered and not given the enough importance that it deserves

[@anabelledagher]

haitians need help and the domincan republic can only do so much. and we as neighbors, are suffering from this too.

[@ChaoticMadness97]

x2, im subscribed to see more international issues and other subjects on the channel, this was a nice suprise, BERY well explained. The best solution (IF POSSIBLE) that i see to Haiti, its to try and solve all their problems at same time, Economic, security, a MASSIVE reforestation, and proper building able to withstand both hurricanes AND earthquakes.

[@LongLivesteph]

You guys are making it worse tho

[@ConvictedRapistTrump]

Dominica and dominica republic are two different nations.@@LongLivesteph

[@AlaskusA]

@@anabelledagherim also Dominican, im from macoris

[@charlottecamila2859]

I'm Dominican, but I'll say this. Haiti is a beautiful country although it is not in its best place. Amazing beaches, mountains, and history. They have a beautiful rich culture with nice dances. Their food is actually amazing and the Haitians are a beautiful people too and you will see the most striking bone structures and exotic Black beauty you have ever seen. I truly hope God sheds his mercy and light on Haiti for the betterment, growth, and health of our island. After decades of suffering they deserve peace, unity, happiness, and brotherly love. God bless Haiti and I wish them many blessings, growth and progress! ❤🎉

[@AnimalLover2400]

Is Dominican beauty "exoticl Black beauty" as well, since MOST Dominicans are also of West African descent?

[@Americafat1]

it doesn't fucking matter how "beautiful" a culture is. there gonna eat themselves alive and than come for ur country

[@BichitaQ]

​@@AnimalLover2400 I can't tell if this is a genuine question, but the average Dominican and the average Haitian look much different. Dominicans are known to have notable European ancestry whereas Haitians, owing to the great difference in the number of Africans and Europeans in the country during colonial times, are much more racially homogeneous. There of course are dark Dominicans and light Haitians, but the majority of Haitians are very obviously more phenotypically black than Dominicans.

[@johnstudd4245]

God will not bless them as long as "Voodoo" religions are rampant.

[@charlottecamila2859]

​​@@AnimalLover2400 Well Haitians are 95% West African DNA and Dominicans are 75% Mixed race Mulattos/Mestizos with 16% being White and 11% Black. I think it's not hard to tell most of us apart.

[@quackwoofjav]

This video aged so well, as of today you can add " but wait! , there's more!"

[@deanl6613]

It would be interesting to see a comparison between all of the former French, British and Spanish colonies. At first glance, it seems like a LOT of former French colonies are failed states.

[@mattean1]

And the Dutch

[@airborne63]

The Haitians MASSACRED every French man, woman and child in 1804. I'm afraid that you'll have to blame the failure of Haiti on somebody else....or maybe BECAUSE there weren't any white folks, as there were in the DR??

[@raysteal3]

But i have been told the horrible it was the Spanish inquisition....

[@maxencepenel6202]

Like which ones ?

[@mike_oe]

Tunesia is reportedly the most democratic and least corrupt country in Africa...

[@Sethsters]

From 2016-2019 I led several teams on mission trips to Haiti every year. The last time I was there we got stopped by a roadblock of several armed men. We were concerned but we trusted our driver and interpreter, who we had known and worked with for years. He rolled down the window and said something to one of the men, and based on his body language they knew each other. They chatted like friends for a few seconds before the armed man started barking out orders to the others to clear the way for us to pass. The whole ordeal lasted just a minute or two. Afterwards we asked our driver what all that was about and he, in a roundabout way, confirmed it was a gang, but that he was a childhood friend of the the head guy’s younger brother so we had nothing to worry about as long as we were with him. A year later we get the heartbreaking news that our driver’s wife was shot and killed while shopping. I haven’t been back since and probably never will.

[@Toosii2times]

That’s wild

[@esquibelle]

Wow. RIP to that poor woman & her entire country 🙏

[@aljoschalong625]

You LED missions and didn't bother to learn at least some French? Oh my, how american.

[@donlagay8648]

@@aljoschalong625 Because he didnt dude. Generally people are chosen for specific conflict areas for their skill set. This is a case of too many video games. Prob a seal recon 69 zulu sniper.

[@donlagay8648]

@@Toosii2times Would be if it were true

[@camillepicard2338]

as a french person who likes to think i'm well versed in geopolitical stuff, i did not know half of this. i just realized we never ever talk about haiti in france. i guess they know what they did.

[@teoquero3628]

Of course they know 😂😂

[@lemmyjay2546]

They don’t talk about all the colonies they had in Africa and are still being exploited to this day?! Now why would they

[@camillepicard2338]

@@lemmyjay2546 No they do talk about Africa but they don't ever talk about Haiti

[@ferrari9530]

Haiti is just worse bad people

[@deeznutz8320]

Yeah the French got slaughtered babies were beheaded and then 200 years of absolutely nothing which is blamed on the people that were killed lol

[@darth_olomew]

I live in Ohio and there has been a huge influx of Haitian refugees. Many people are ignorant of why and find them to be a nuisance due to their driving habits. I would hate to go through what those people have been through and have this channel to thank for understanding their plight.

[@american5564]

The people in Ohio are the real victims then.

[@seancosgrove1]

I appreciate the mention of the Haitian aggression against the DR in the first half of the 19th century. Many historians when describing why Haiti is poor, they omit how after winning independence, they oppressed their neighbor.

[@SweetChicagoGator]

I was quite surprised that Haiti ruled DR for 22 years before finally being overcome and evicted !

[@tugolditocaribeno2922]

and did you appreciate historians mentioning the Parsley Massacre of more than 20,000 Haitians at the Massacre River of 1932 under the orders of U.S. backed Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo? or do you appreciate historians mentioning how the U.S. sugar cane factories dominated Haiti, taking ownership of all the sugar cane farms to enrich the U.S? wink wink LOL

[@jangregory169]

Please, do some research. You are right that Haiti did occupy DR (which they had no rights to) after their own liberation but remember that slavery was still present in DR...which means it was already an oppressed society (at least for black ppl) and it was the Haitians who abolished slavery for black people in DR during this occupation. So, please, tell me, who exactly was oppressed. ..better yet, don't

[@seancosgrove1]

@@jangregory169 Haiti continued to have forced labor for many decades after the slave revolt against the French. The idea that the Haitians selflessly occupied their neighbors on the East side of the island to "free" them is ridiculous. They taxed the average person heavily so they could steal the labor from another nation, turning everyone into slaves of the Haitian state. Maybe talk to a Dominican historian and see how they see it. The story of the oppressed becoming oppressors is not unique historically at all. Just don't pretend as if the Dominicans don't have legitimate grievances against the Haitian government.

[@indiomoustafa2047]

Nah bro, only white people can be oppressive.

[@JC05]

Im from Antigua and Barbuda, currently in Guyana, I wasnt aware that our country were sending people over to Haiti, let alone the magnitude of the situation the countrys been in ever since 2021. I hope peace and prosperity can be met within Haiti one day

[@joe-pm4ls]

Better leave before Venezuela decides to take Esequibo and your stuck there.

[@menna7927]

​@@joe-pm4lsIf Venezuela does any moves, the US military will blast Maduro's ass straight to the moon.

[@AwesomeHairo]

Misuse of commas.

[@PreppyRblxAestheticEdits]

@@AwesomeHairook?

[@alexanderdantonio8999]

@joe-pm4ls 😂. Venezuela isn't going to do anything cause there's oil and the US is boots on the ground. Maduro will get the Noriega treatment from our military very fast. He already knows this...fafo.

[@roamingmompreneur792]

I’m Dominican and this is the best video I’ve seen on the topic by far!

[@theshadowking3198]

😂

[@801leggy]

That's because y'all hate to hear the real truth.

[@x-ray3443]

@@801leggy cope mald seath

[@Cerxts]

@@801leggy Which is??

[@tamara_diamonds422]

@@801leggy. So what’s the truth? Enlighten us.

[@sean87arnaout]

As an American, that knows some Dominicans that they have all worked very hard to make their country, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 a very beautiful, nice, and peaceful country to live and work in. Dominicans keep up the great work.

[@teoquero3628]

Thanks brother, greetings from Punta Cana Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

[@sean87arnaout]

@@teoquero3628 😊❤️🇩🇴

[@Satvik_Insaan]

Americans gave freedom to haiti with france and its amazing that Haiti do not even have oil.

[@jeffreydweeks]

Corruption, Corruption over and over. The millions of dollars in aid that has been stolen is insane.

[@letsreasonthisout2898]

Hillary Clinton's brother made millions on US aid to Haiti. Look it up.

[@myownfashionclosetllc5108]

Those million of dollars Haiti never seen. The information is out there so if you guys truly want to know, the information is there. Asked Clinton and his wife for the money that supposed to help rebuild Haiti. Yes, they do have corrupt politicians who are only working for their pockets, but so are the people who take part of the corruption. Clinton also destroy our rice production so he could sell his rice in the country. Talking about corruption, you will be surprised some key people who are involved in destroying the country. America is not innocent in what is going on in Haiti, and so are some other countries. For example, if someone is doing something where the law is prohibited, and I get involved in that, I am at wrong as much as that person. To what level? That's a different story.

[@pepito3461]

Funny that people think rep dom is different than Haiti on this point

[@debbymorey7691]

UN needs to help build infrastructure and stop throwing money at them , only to disappear with each disposed president. The wall looks great, take note Biden.

[@hcrat2262]

Ask French, USA and beyond why? No matter what they will never control Haiti. Yes, they us alot of bad things. But Haiti will rise again despite that well designed plot for daring to abolish slavery. They keep up stealing from us for the longest and yet they blame it on us.

[@gusefalito6137]

As a Dominican living abroad, thank you for covering the histories of both nations with scrutiny and not shying away from their imperfections. I didn't know about the conspiracy with Aristide. It definitely helps me see the situation in Haiti differently. Thank you.

[@nonyaluvnlyfe6494]

DR sounds nice but it's not all that. When I visited La Romana and a few other places I turned around...

[@morenocesarp]

you visited the wrong side of la romana, la romana has casa de campo and it soroundings arguably one of the richest places in the americas. @@nonyaluvnlyfe6494

[@mixtapemania6769]

@@nonyaluvnlyfe6494 Im haitian, the thing is, Haiti compared to ANY country in the americas makes that country look "very nice", even if it's also a 3rd world country with an even higher murder rate. The problem is, the standard of living in Haiti is much lower overall

[@Jean-vp1yr]

@@nonyaluvnlyfe6494 there’s still a lot of poverty in DR, I know what you’re talking about cuz I’ve been to La Romana multiple times, but the thing is, overall the country has grown in such a way no other country in the Americas has, DR was one of the poorest countries in Latin America just 35-40 years ago, now its HDI is slightly higher than giant countries like Brazil as of 2023, all of this was achieved in some few decades, if this trend continues, I can’t even imagine what DR will be like in some 50 years from now, hopefully they won’t mess up like Venezuela or Argentina which were expected to be fully developed by this time and then they went backwards.

[@shiny_teddiursa]

@@Jean-vp1yryeah the DR might actually become fully developed before bigger Latam countries like Colombia & Venezuela, hopefully they keep it up. Also Latam as a whole should strive to become developed or near it by 2050

[@thewaterborotrashguy1002]

I was in Haiti with the Marines in 2004 and again with the Army in 2010. Haiti could be a beautiful country. The beaches and water are beautiful. I hope they get their stuff together.

[@pragma5282]

Dominican Republic was a spanish province where everyone , black or white, enjoyed spanish citizenship, while Haiti was a french slave colony. Many of the governance structures that existed under spanish rule were preserved after Dominican Republic got its independence, while Haiti has been in chaos and wars with their former colonizers since then.

[@guzelataroach4450]

Japan lost millions of men and got entire coties nuked yet they buily themself up to the 3rd biggest economy

[@kevdes2564]

As a Haitian still living in Port-au-Prince, you have my thanks for this very insightful review of our history. I wish I could say that things are getting better but that is absolutly not the case. I love my country so much and it's sad that you can't see yourself optimisticly within a year or 2. This spiral may never end.

[@DarkLobster69]

The spiral will end eventually my friend, you just have to believe things will be better. I wish you and your country much fortune in the coming years.

[@swampghost72]

I hope the best for you and your country my friend..Haiti could be a great place..

[@TheSangson]

@@DarkLobster69 Yeah, just believing has always worked great

[@TheSangson]

Dude, you got internet access...make friends literally anywhere else in the world and get out of there

[@nhatho1723]

@@TheSangsonbut harder to get out than internet access lol

[@latoyatangelo]

I’m from The Bahamas and can’t thank you enough for this video. The entire history of Haiti is so sad.

[@cocunotcracca]

no its not .haiti has good history

[@grandtheftavocado]

They killed all the white people and then built the only country they could

[@globalreviews6657]

France and USA made them pay over 21 Billion dollars for their independence and US soldiers stole their gold… If France gives back the money things might change in Haiti….

[@xShadowChrisx]

@@FelixAnt I guess if you want a history of lessons full of what not to do?

[@justapotato4231]

@cocunotcracca someone didn't watch the video lol

[@vMufasa]

i've actually always wondered this, thanks for the video

[@azhurelpigeon]

Haiti quite literally has the most tragic history of any country in the world. It genuinely hurts to hear how many innocent people are hurt by so many things that they couldn’t control

[@CBatista1234]

Haitians have controlled Haiti for 220 years. They have created all their suffering.

[@nineexists6621]

I mean, I wouldnt say most tragic, I think that goes to china since it has historically had the absolute worst luck ever, their ancient wars consistently had hundreds of thousands of deaths, and in the modern era they were oppressed, forced into drug addiction, tortured and experimented on, and then suffered due to idiotic choices under mao zedong and the ccp

[@1111e4]

I grew up with my Haitian dad never really talking about Haiti and what was going on. This video shows what my family in Haiti is really going through. This is just, horrible.

[@jonb3150]

Look mate, I had to shatter your precious sad thoughts, but Haiti is messed because of Haitians, not because of the French or the American or deforestation. Absolutely laughable and your family would be much better off cleaning out their own country instead of blaming it on someone else.

[@levitoussaint865]

same always wondered why the older i get the more i understand when i do my own research.

[@jayvonnoelsmith8445]

Yup

[@JC_Cali]

Solidarity and sympathy to you and yours!

[@HashknightGaming]

I would say they can come up here to America but the right wing nuts will probably be just a dangerous.

[@bundesautobahn7]

There was a satellite photo showing the contrasts of the island of Hispaniola. Haiti looked completely barren, the Dominican Republic looked alive and its forests green. Sometimes pictures speak a thousand words.

[@dixiedawgs8946]

yea, looks like they cut ALL trees down ? their side just looks like dirt :(

[@alexaliaga2390]

@@dixiedawgs8946 very desperate situation

[@KITTYGALOREXXX]

The trees, shrubs and all forms of vegetation, after drying are used for fuel. Cooking gas and electricity are very expensive and there availability is unreliable. When you live in Haiti you have to be completely self sufficient and it's off grid.

[@yasinfrei]

Thanks to France

[@Senriam]

@@acmhfmggruthat is not an accurate statement at all.

[@johnhernandez1235]

What a detailed and unbelievable history. Thanks for such a thorough overview.

[@Elsith01]

I have family in the DR, and I visit about once a year. I guess in this context, the DR is doing well, but traveling there outside the resort is very annoying and frustrating, especially with the police stopping you for no reason and letting you go if you pay them off. You can't walk down the street without someone trying to scam you or lure you to some establishment, which isn't so bad as a restaurant, but when you try and leave, they ask for large tips by saying, "Oh, you can give me enough to make my family happy, or I can go out for a drink!" or some nonsense with a stupid smile on their face, thinking they're being charming. If you rent a car, just be careful with the police, because they will stop you whether or not you're breaking the law, you will get stopped either way. Also, ignore the locals who try to flag you down to park somewhere, even if you have no intention of stopping. If you're a tourist without family in the DR, just stick to the resorts; if you have family who are not affluent, you have to tolerate a lot of BS, not from the family, but having to travel through the areas where they live. During my last visit I decided to just rent a place where the wealthier residents live and invited a couple of family members to stay over. I specifically went to a wealthy residential area, not a wealthy tourist area, because you will experience frustrating nonsense there as well. Oh boy, I am in a bad mood; I typed up more than I intended. Ha!

[@Oofu]

Yeah, that's what I don't get about most videos that talk about DR, as a Dominican myself. They always compare Haiti and DR as "poor" and "rich" respectively, but it never really feels like that whenever I go. Like sure, comparatively, DR is "rich," but we still have a long ways to go. 😅 Don't get it wrong, I love DR for my neighbors, culture, music, etc.. but past that, excluding places for tourists, it gets a little grey and honestly, a bit scary.

[@Ravenstormx_]

As a Haitian this is the best foreign video I’ve seen on Haitian history and Haiti-Dominican relations. Extremists on both sides are usually the loudest and give their respective people a bad rep. Also love seeing the comments filled with Dominicans expressing empathy and interest in the tragic history of a naturally beautiful nation. I wish people exposed the unity and empathy of both nations and the unbiased history. I’m proud of our neighbors for achieving all that they did to grow and make their country prosperous. Hoping to see the same for Haiti in my lifetime 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 ❤️

[@sonnymartinez3051]

The Dominican Republic is the best potential partner of a stable and functional Haiti. if Haiti was a relatively safe, stable, with the basic infrastructure for trade, commerce and tourism, trust me that Haiti would be filled with Dominicans going there for tourism or business. I would love to visit Tortuga Island, Gonaive, Les Cayes, and Jeremie, as a Dominican, but it is simply way too difficult due to the lack of basic infrastructure. i am sure many other Dominicans have an interest in knowing Haiti other than Port-Au-prince or the border towns.

[@Ravenstormx_]

@@sonnymartinez3051 oh I’m sure of it! Me as a Haitian it’s too dangerous to visit my own parents hometowns so I feel you 🥲

[@freeman0048]

​@@sonnymartinez3051The sad situation is the risk reward for DR government or any government to provide any support is too great. The DR plan is obviously to build the wall, stay their distance and let the inevitable happen. After the dust settles, go pick up the scraps.

[@sonnymartinez3051]

Honestly, what is can the DR do? Haiti is an asymmetrically different nation from Dominicans, so an integration is out of the questions and will only lead to more problems. The best that Dominicans can do really is safeguarding and protecting their nation and territory from the chaos that governs the neighboring nation. DR has already helped out Haiti with real tangible aid more than all the countries of the world put together, and still continue to bear a heavy burden with Haitians.

[@freeman0048]

@@sonnymartinez3051 agreed. I would say that's the only option

[@jlfern2882]

Haiti is in far worse conditions that we can imagine, as many of their children are kidnapped, many men are killed, and the population suffers from disease outbreaks without a healthcare system. I truly feel for my neighbors and wish they recover from the terrible fate they've had.

[@Challffz]

Yeah it's such a terrible fate it's not like they had anything to do with it. It just sorta happened, must have been the wind.

[@paratame105]

@@Challffz I take it you haven't watched the video? The analysis has thoroughly concluded that it was mainly France's and the US's fault

[@petrabridgemohan7006]

From trinidad in cribbean.this has. Been infirmstive....but also d eleohant in d room is reparation and gpod ethival nstive leadershp

[@Challffz]

@@paratame105 It's one-hundred percent white people's fault that blacks can't figure out civilization no matter where they live, yup! Agreed!

[@walterrutherford8321]

Now there is a people who are owed reparations! The country was forced to buy themselves out of French slavery long after slavery had ended! 😡

[@RenaQueenLion]

Brilliantly researched video. Well Done.

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Interesting comparison. Thanks for the analysis.

[@ArchonLicht]

Honestly, giving a bunch of money to the corrupt mafia-like "government" of Haiti doesn't seem like a very good idea. It would make more sense to invest in specific infrastructure and education projects than just giving money.

[@hughjass1976]

Giving money to these places is never a good idea. Because the problem isn't lack of money, it's greed. Why feed your people when you can siphon off money to build yourself another palace?

[@YourKingJDG]

I usually don’t agree with not paying individually but I agree in this scenario.

[@MrPaytonw34]

It’s not up to you if it’s a good idea it’s what owed to them. And the French and American government didn’t have any problem with the guy right up until he asked for that money. so he must not have been too bad. If you wanna call the Haitian government Mafia style, you better be calling the United States the same thing because that’s exactly how they act.

[@geth7112]

​@MrPaytonw34 See, you're not wrong with calling the US governmen mafia. The differences is tho the US government is an effective mafia. Haitian government has proven not to be. It's also just concerns made by many , to just giving an unelected President money which would legitimacy him.

[@dcl97]

That's not going to work either. Fundamentally Haitians just love electing strong men, and "Haiti First" style politicians who not coincidentally always end up being authoritarian autocrats who try to turn themselves into eternal presidents. Haiti produces nothing of value and has no significant natural resources. It's a failed country with no realistic way forward.

[@davemccage7918]

I’ve been to Haiti at the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s privately owned beach. If you go just beyond the visitor area in the tree line there is a massive fence that looks like it belongs in Jurassic Park to keep the locals away from the tourists. When you’re in Jamaica, or any other Caribbean island, you just walk around the city along with the native inhabitants like any normal country. It was weird to such a drastic difference between the island nations.

[@UrbanCommentBot]

I've been there as well. I spoke to local workers there that said the island was a pleasant free getaway for Haitians, but now they can't go there. They are very unhappy about it but feel powerless against parasitic foreign occupation.

[@naekosl3059]

@@UrbanCommentBot It's not "foreign occuption" for a private property to erect a fence to keep violent or looting trespassers out. If that fence was removed, rampant looting would occur.

[@UrbanCommentBot]

Hm, although I was being a bit dramatic with that term to over empathize with the feelings of the people, I feel like you had to ignore parts of my comment to make that response. And that's fine. Thanks for your perspective.

[@MrLlama-je8de]

@@naekosl3059 you mean looting from the previous inhabitants of Haiti by (presumably) the ancestors of the tourists. I’m not calling for violence against the descendants of slave owners, but there’s a reason the people in Haiti are struggling

[@henryballing8164]

The cruise line could just stop going there if it's so bad for Haiti. I doubt that would help the country at all though

[@colin8696908]

Destroys their own ecosystem: "France made me do it" What a joke.

[@amaurysu3190]

Not exactly what they are saying. The truth is their revolution was a threat to all white colonial powers that had years profiting. Even though men agree with the freedom af all men, the colonizers and capitalists were not so forgiving for decline in profits in their world affairs. They had to be made an example that later revolutions to follow would fear being placed under such condition. They arent dumb, the conditions and education just dont meet what you are blessed to get for free. Nation so in debt to banks and World powers it had been conditioned to play victim for charity that government sell out for. Sad how you guys live in a boxed reality and cant see reality of who does what to who. World games see farther in effect then schooled on textbook kids who can cold heartedly be convinced any people would bring this upon themselves. The profit potential was so good even the US extorted and trafficked for self and corporate interests. It's a shame you understand so little. They may have different color but their race is no other then yours as men, that you benefit of "freedom" due to their inspiring for revolution. The double standard is real too. 😢

[@pickler_pickler]

Lot of words to mask the fact that they destroyed their country because blacks aren't fit for governing

[@rhearamjohn4792]

It's really sad to see a fellow caribbean island with conditions like this...makes you realise how fortunate you are

[@justtheilluminativ282]

Video ideas for the Modern Conflicts series: - Mexican Drug War - Somali Civil War - Cabo Delgado Insurgency - Yugoslav Wars - Bougainville Separatist Crisis - The Indo-Pakistani Wars/Kashmir - Ugandan Bush War - Rwandan Genocide - The Two Congo Wars - South African Border War - Angolan Civil War - Sri Lankan Civil War - Nepalese Civil War - Central African Republic’s Civil War - Rise of Boko Haram - Rise of Abu Sayyaf/Piracy in the Sulu Sea - Ambazonia Separatist Crisis - Azawad Crisis/War in the Sahel - Algerian Civil War - Decline of Venezuela - Salvadoran Civil War - Guatemalan Civil War - Decline of El Salvador - Liberian Civil War - Sierra Leonean Civil War - Colombian Conflict - Ivorian Civil War - Western Sahara - West Papua Crisis - South China Sea Dispute - Shining Path Insurgency in Peru - Rhodesian Bush War - Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea - Sino-Vietnamese Skirmishes After 1979 - The Two Sudanese Civil Wars

[@leoX11]

World is definitely fucked up

[@harryroadman1089]

Guyana Venezuela conflict?

[@chipscreamjuche9962]

They have a claim ​@@harryroadman1089

[@Maryland_Kulak]

Why are you so obsessed with war?

[@krishthakar6661]

Add Ukrainian Orange Revolution , Revolution of Dignity and Yeltsin Black October

[@kevinsbikingadventures278]

I know a woman whose parents are from Haiti and who has been to both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I've only been to the Dominican Republic. One thing that I found odd that she said is that both countries seem to have drastically different environments and just "feel different." Your video explained a bit about why she felt that way, especially concerning deforestation.

[@Xenlacasa45]

Haiti is dry like and mountainous while the DR is green forested rains more.

[@claudium6769]

Haiti is a black majority country and RD is not. That's why one has gangs, drugs, crimes and the other one not.

[@kekeke8988]

@@Xenlacasa45 Stated to be false in this very video. In fact, Haiti gets more rainfall.

[@arielperez797]

yea i went to the DR/Haiti border a few years ago and you can see the difference. the haitian side becomes like a desert instantly. you can almost see a natural border because of the difference in foliage.

[@Dannyfr33sh]

My grandfather RIP when I used to visit Dominican Rep as a little boy says Haiti is cursed because the majority of people do voodoo. And DR is a Christian nation that’s is why

[@juicymelodic]

Interesting fact: Napoleon has sent polish army to quell the rebellion in exchange for liberating Poland from Prussian, Austrian and Russian occupation. When they saw what is going on, they joined the Haitians instead and helped them liberate from French.

[@beverlyisidore8672]

Thanks for educating me about Haiti history.

[@patriciaR004]

In the Dominican Republic, the government pours millions into funding forestation projects to schools and different organizations so they can go out and plant thousands of trees. There are always commercials on radio and TV about the importance of planting trees and taking care of our flora and fauna. There's seasons where you can not fish, hunt, or you'll be in a lot of trouble with authorities out there.

[@hesedagape6122]

Haiti has not had authorities for years

[@Slayer-33]

This is 100% true, been seeing this effort since I was a child. Even in my brief stints while visiting DR you heard about these efforts.

[@Lady_Angela1]

That is very wise.

[@Lunaxklk]

yeah also when you are about to graduate from the State University (UASD) they include in your bill a fee for a tree to be planted.

[@murph1329]

I went to Punta Cana a few years ago. Amazing place. Y'all do an outstanding job. Keep it up.

[@BDCF100]

I remember flying from Miami to Trinidad Is. about a dozen years ago and going directly over the border between Haiti and the DR. The pilot mentioned what we were about to cross and to "look at the difference in the two countries." Haiti looked like a barren desolate landscape and the DR a lush green land.

[@nanounepha2600]

Well, you only saw about 10% -15% of Haiti. The 90%-85% is picturesque.

[@jeffersonjohns6397]

The first country to break away from slavery…. 🤔

[@jeffersonjohns6397]

@@nanounepha2600. Not even remotely accurate at this point in time. The “picturesque” landscape has been destroyed by the Haitians.

[@cuatro336]

​@@nanounepha2600 not anymore

[@joseluisolivares7573]

That right ,DOMINICAN REPUBLIC populations takes care for forest and Rivers and GOD blessing every day our nation

[@keyblade408]

As a dominican I hoping nothing this tragic happends to my homeland.

[@lethalxxlori]

this is probably one of the most informative and interesting videos i’ve ever seen on a country’s history. Thanks for making me a more informed person! and I hope the US and France realize what they’ve done.

[@oscarpatxot659]

As a Dominican, this has to be the best non biased analysis I have seen on youtube. Well done.

[@mariealphonse7613]

Your government killed 37000 Haitian people and are sending guns and munitions to destabilized Haiti ... Did you missed that part of your story !?

[@emmasarlanis]

Wanna talk about your invasion of DR for 22yrs and the Moca massacres😂

[@emmasarlanis]

Also pretty stupid to believe the DR is arming Haiti so the they can use the same weapon against the DR😂 pretty counter productive😂 it's your own Haitians from Florida sending in those weapons the elite that fled Haiti and the thugs too😂

[@oscarpatxot659]

@@emmasarlanis not enough time in an hour to explain every historical event, how about the trujillo era? The Mirabal sisters? And many other things. The subject of this video is explained wonderfully. Maybe he can go in depth in another one on these events you mentioned. I would happily watch as well.

[@alexcrock7942]

​@@oscarpatxot659Lmao the victims😢

[@Izzy_B241]

Just being a French colony puts any country at a massive disadvantage

[@jelly4frog498]

haha funny france bad 😐

[@amaze_z1953]

​@@ronlacker326???

[@MausWulf]

@@ronlacker326?

[@SmokestackOG]

​@ronlacker326 then why is rawanda , Jamaica , Atlanta, tulsa Oklahoma, booming then?

[@sjm8510]

Large parts of North America and Vietnam used to be French colonies, all doing great today, only the black colonies are in total disarray, all of them.

[@angelperez-rm6vf]

The construction of buildings, bridges, roads, schools, public companies and other infrastructure, during the Trujillo dictatorship, differentiate the dictatorship in Haiti.

[@ednafernandes9017]

Don't blame DR for wanting anything to do with Haiti!

[@chloemagloire3053]

As a Haitian, watching this and realizing the true impact of all these major events we’ve gone through gives me an overwhelming feeling of sadness. I was only 4 years old when Aristide went into exile, to this day I had no idea it was because he was the first to ask for reparations. I thank you so much for retelling the whole story in such a thorough and unbiased way, videos like yours that help spreading awareness keep me a bit more hopeful for my country’s future. Haïti’s many complex issues are just the result of a very unfortunate butterfly effect

[@MrWood-qd6kr]

I would bet it’s because of the Voodoo. Unfortunately, Haiti paid a demonic price for its freedom

[@bougieproletariat]

The reason America doesn't like socialism is because socialist countries can't be exploited, that's why they have an embargo on Cuba, out of resentment.

[@peterbabickoncan6192]

When I look at the footage of Haiti, I can't believe that it is an island in the Caribbean Sea. It looks like I am looking at the landscape and the people living in difficult conditions in Africa, during the 1980s concert, LIVE AID to AFRICA, which I watched as a child I saw footage of hurt childrens. I myself grew up in the communist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the republic's huge debts led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. All the newly formed countries on the territory of the former republic inherited the financial debt to the World Bank, Russia, USA, UK, France. Despite the civil war in the area of ​​Croatia, Bosnia, which suffered a nationalist bloody attack by the Serbian population in these republics. Despite suffering and years of war, we are still paying the debt we created during the communist regime. However, two new countries are doing relatively well and these countries are Slovenia and Croatia. I hope that your leaders who ruled with a hard and bloody hand did not kill intellectual and educated people in all these decades. Without education there is no progress for society and the state of such a society is soulless. If you have smart and educated citizens, the leaders cannot trick them. By regulating systems and society, dictators make their people stupid, and teach them that others (other countries) are to blame for all the problems in their own country.

[@naekosl3059]

@@peterbabickoncan6192 They are Africans but living in a different place. As for Africa itself, many governments remain in existence because of the billions of dollars of free money (not loans) given to them by Western nations and Japan in order for their governments to pay workers and maintain infrastructure. Without that money, a number of African governments would fall as they cannot collect enough taxes to keep on going. Thus Africa is artificially orderly and civilized by the appearance of governments. WIthout the external support, Africa, despite the abundance of natural resources and land and water, would devolve to appear like Haiti. Even Anthony Bourdain in his travel videos across parts of Africa showed that they couldn't even maintain knowledge and technology at the 1850's level. Actually, math and science was quite advanced by the 1850's. I wonder how many Americans could even maintain that level of society if SHTF.

[@AK-jt7kh]

As someone from the US, I'm so sorry for what our government has done to your country and your people. Maybe your country's path to freedom is a slow one, but it has already passed many milestones. If we were to zoom out by another 100 years, maybe we would see a brand new Haïti that is hard to imagine right now. Hope is never lost, and I thinking the Haitians are strong, brave, and not easily defeated.

[@EminencePhront]

I read about this disparity back in 2006. Back then DR was still described as being "poor". It's amazing how much progress has been made on their side in that time.

[@boulderbash19700209]

Around that time, I read a book "Why Nations Fail" that put the contrast between Haiti and Dominican Republic as one of their topic examples.

[@paisan8766]

It’s not when you consider the US & France’s actions against Haiti since ~mid-1800s. It’s literally clear cause & effect up thru the 2004 ousting of the best leader Haiti’s had.

[@nvelsen1975]

@@paisan8766 There's always a racist desperate to blame western countries instead of the actual cause.... You should feel ashamed, racist.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@paisan8766 Well obviously your corrupt government at the time accepted these terms without first telling France to drop dead. Your leaders were obviously bribed to accept the deal as they didn't give a fuck about anyone else but themselves. France was in no position to invade Haiti in 1870 when the Germans kicked their ass so bad. I would imagine had the leadership of Haiti at the time had approached the Germans for weapons (like the Boers did), they would have given France a bloody nose if they even thought of invading the place. But no, as long as those lighter skinned elites got their cut, why should they give a damn about anything else?

[@daslynnter9841]

​@@paisan8766yea, crazy how much active destabilization by two world leaders can keep a small island nation destabilized.

[@raenaj4749]

This was extremely informative

[@batissta44]

As an American of Dominican ancestry I find this video informative and eye opening.

[@Angelfyre.]

I stopped to think why DR didn’t intervene in Haiti or why they didn’t just annex the region once it collapsed fully, and it’s quite clear why they did neither. It would cost DR a lot of time, money, & man power to annex the region and bring stability back. Some Haitians probably don’t want to be apart of the DR inciting rebellious guerrilla warfare sorta like what’s seen in Israel/Palestine. So from the DRs perspective building a wall and wanting nothing to do with their failed neighbor is the easiest most cost effective way to deal with the problem.

[@thesunflowchannel1995]

We need to build a wall 🇺🇸

[@MargeeRD]

That’s right

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Haiti is a cesspool which cannot be fixed. The ONLY thing the DR can do is isolate as much as possible from the rot that is its neighbor.

[@Eldeibi84]

DR is better off than Haiti by a lot, but DR is still a poor country overall, getting somewhat better every year but still poor. It would be suicide for DR to absorb Haiti. Imagine assimilating 12 M of the poorest people in the world, it would turn DR in the poorest country in the Americas. Not even Mexico or Brazil economies can absorb 12 M poor people.

[@user-pd7ki5qs5i]

Plus the video also said that Haiti invaded and occupied the DR for 20 years after they received independence. Dominicans see the Haitians as the invaders and occupiers.

[@jeanmorel7203]

I am dominican, and I learned things in these videos that I had never heard before. Great work 👏 👍

[@JehsuBenIsrael]

Why do Dominicans hate Haitians and black ppl in general?

[@anonymouspsychedelicsuser8109]

Me no black papi

[@Cuppachoccy]

@@tjones44236😐

[@judeironheart7252]

protejan esa frontera, hermano

[@sageex3931]

There are a few different issues at play with Haiti, but the short answer is a complicated history of colonialism, slavery, and racial tensions that were uniquely damaging to the nascent Haitian state. Whereas Haiti was the second independent nation in the Americas, the nations who secured independence after Haiti did so in much different paths. The United States secured independence with the help and recognition of France and Spain, and most of the colonial administration pre-independence remained in control after independence. While there were certainly adjustments, the leaders and power bases before and after American independence were largely the same. Other prominent breakaway factions accomplished the same: Simon Bolivar and his independence campaign exploited numerous existing administrators with sympathies towards independence, Brazil was de facto independent and at one point the actual seat of power for the Portuguese monarchy (who fled Europe during the Peninsular War), and the Dominican Republic had a number of issues on their path to independence but enjoyed protection by the United States during the last stages of independence. Haiti enjoyed none of this. The Haitian revolution was led in first stages by Toussaint Louverture, who was a freed slave and had little experience or political connections to rely on. He was tricked into meeting with the French under pretense of negotiations, at which point he was arrested in 1802 and died less than a year later in a French prison. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, another freed slave, largely took control of the Haitian revolutionary forces and established an independent Haiti in 1804, before being assassinated in 1806. Prior to his assassination, Dessalines ordered a mass killing of French citizens residing in Haiti, with at least 3,000 French executed and many thousands more fleeing to the United States. There were several consequences of this mass-killing, and of the general political disorder of both Loverture and Dessalines being removed from power in hostile manners in short period. The first is that the new state of Haiti was, rather uniquely for the various colonial nations that would pop up in the coming years, almost entirely devoid of Europeans. Some were spared, mostly Polish residents who had supported the revolution, but those not killed had fled. This was quite damaging as the remaining residents were largely former slaves who lacked the same education as the white citizens and the racial tension was worsened by these acts. Further, the mass execution and tales of the residents who fled to the United States inflamed the slaveowners of the South and created a paranoia about a potential mass slave revolt and mass killings of white southerners as happened in Haiti -- such paranoia continued well into the United States Civil War, with Confederates and Confederate sympathizers warning of "the horrors of St. Domingo" in the early years. This led to policy of isolation, began in 1804 by President Thomas Jefferson, and Haiti would not be officially recognized as an independent nation by the United States until *1862.* While all of this was damaging enough, the isolation also opened the door for diplomatic extortion of the Haitians. In 1825, the French government sent numerous warships to Haiti demanding the former colony pay an indemnity of 150 million francs for the property lost in the revolution (that is to say *the slaves who had revolted against them*) in exchange for diplomatic recognition. To pay the indemnity, the Haitians had to take out exorbitant loans, sometimes at interest as high as 18 per cent per annum, and as a consequence of having no international recognition were obligated to take these loans *from the French* (and later the United States) as no other countries would treat with them. It is estimated that by the late 1800s, some *eighty percent* of the total Haitian revenues were being diverted into French indemnity payments, and the French during this period maintained control over the entire Haitian treasury, which they forced to be located in Paris until the official government debts were paid back in *1893.* But while the French indemnity was repaid, this was still only *part* of the issues facing Haiti. The other issue was that even after fears of a slave revolt were quelled, the United States remained belligerent at best towards the Haitians. Andrew Johnson in 1868 had plans made for an annexation of Haiti by the United States, and in 1890 the United States sent a fleet of warships to Haiti in an attempt to pressure the Haitians to "lease" a port to the United States. Newly elected president Florvil Hyppolite refused the demands, which angered the United States (and led to them insisting that the warships sent to Haiti were merely for *peaceful negotiation,* not for any threat of violence.) Haiti's troubles continued when the Germans in 1897 demanded a pardon for German national Emile Luders, along with a formal apology, an indemnity, and a host of other embarrassing demands, backed by yet another fleet of warships. This became an issue as the United States viewed the Luders affair as a sign German influence had grown too strong in Haiti. Political instability during the following years eventually prompted US businesses to lobby the government to intervene in Haiti, an intervention that was granted by Woodrow Wilson in 1915. American marines occupied Haiti and established a military regime with a puppet government. The changes brought about by the American occupation were extreme. Where the Haitian constitution had previously banned all foreign nationals from holding property, the US occupation transferred control of all customs houses, banks, and treasuries (along with associated financial and administrative institutions) to the United States. About 40% of the Haitian wealth was seized by the United States and used to pay off loans to American banks that had been used prior to pay the French indemnity. The United States had final say over all expenditures by the Haitians, and was granted by treaty control over all foreign relations and economic affairs for ten years, later extended to twenty. When the Haitian legislature refused to ratify the new constitution being forced on them in 1917, the United States occupying forces dissolved the legislature and did not allow a new legislature to meet until 1929. At this point, prominent black Americans began protesting, with W.E.B. duBois and the NAACP decrying the conditions in Haiti. The United States occupation had effectively reversed older racial politics and granted rights to the mulatto class while suppressing the Afro-Carib classes that comprised the majority of the Haitians. Conditions continued to deteriorate as the US puppet regime began a forced labor policy in Haiti, requiring Haitian citizens to work on various "economic" projects without compensation and resulting in a large number of deaths from overwork. These deaths also were joined with the large numbers killed by US forces during revolts against the occupation. Finally in 1933, the situation had become so untenable that the United States began withdrawing from Haiti and returned control back to the Haitians. However, the United States continued to enforce the treaty stipulations that gave them financial control until debts were repaid, which was maintained until the final payments in 1947. During this final stage, the portion of Haitian revenues going to foreign debt payments still accounted for 20% the total. While the occupation did result in some infrastructure and economic reforms, the end result was not that glowing either: Haiti's education system was essentially dismantled, replacing prior comprehensive education with a strict vocational system that only taught agricultural practices and siphoning even more money from Haitian institutions in those set up by the United States. Segregation had been imported from the American South and enforced in Haiti, and altogether somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000 Haitians died during the occupation. So to give a condensed answer: a combination of French and United States hostility toward Haiti, and extortionate policy toward the island, effectively deprived Haiti of almost 125 years of economic development that they only began to recover from in 1934 (after the occupation ended) or later in 1947 (when the last of the indemnity-related debts were paid). While the colony was rich and fairly well situated, the indemnities siphoned almost all of this wealth into the hands of French and American banks while keeping the new country from actually investing its wealth.

[@BobBobbingsworth]

Giving $20 billion to gangsters would not help them and won't happen even if it would help. Leave them alone and let them figure it out.

[@amaurysu3190]

The gangsters are what the media calls the political groups. That's like media saying terrorists when their funded by foreign agendas to destabilize. They do it in Africa, South America, Papua, and so on. Those who enjoy certain freedoms as you are programmed not to know the actual horrors your taxes fund to impose upon other nations for resources and influence.

[@Puppetlesss]

I love how Dr is doing !!! I’m Dominican and we did a lot for our country ! It shouldn’t be taken away like that ! My heart goes to hati it is sad to see our Nextdoor brothers and sisters suffer like this !!! Prayers to hati!

[@forrcaho]

I really like the way you used the modern Citibank logo when explaining their predatory actions in Haiti. Yup, it's those exact same bastards.

[@fhowland]

Overly simplistic nonsense

[@angie_a1435]

​@@fhowlandShading light on the exploitation of a nation is of course nonsense. How dare they bring it up, we should all pretend it didn't happen and ask Haitians to suck it and adult up. Who cares if with such a debilitating history moving forward complicated.

[@Nik-fz3fi]

@@fhowlandaww little banker is mad his employer got called out 😂

[@TheAlexberry]

I was a part of a humanitarian mission to South America in 2022. Every other country we stopped in we went into port or anchored right off shore. In Haiti we had to stay far offshore and do circles due to the gangs potentially targeting our ship. Also, hundreds of Haitians tried to get to our ship via makeshift rafts to escape the country. We were accompanied by American coast guard ships that had to cut off the rafts and help them back to shore. When we set up or medical site on shore it was guarded by a detachment of Marines and fenced in. There was a big desperate crowd who could have overrun the site. We had a plan in place in which if the site was started to get overrun we would drop everything and run to the transport boats. We only provided care for a day when one of cranes bringing up our people on a transport ship snapped and dumped everyone into the water. Everyone survived, and we noped out of there before anything worse happened.

[@gracequach6769]

Zoinks!

[@user-ww5qw8jd3b]

It's so damn hard

[@axileastilemaxoy137]

δεν έχεις καμιά πιθανότητα να σώσεις αυτούς τούς ανθρώπους διότι δεν μπορούν να εκπολιτιστουν, βλ. και όλες τις χώρες της Αφρικής..

[@quintyss1290]

Wow, I had no idea things were that desperate, and it breaks my heart. Love to all of you angels who tried to help.

[@Lun602]

I’m Dominican and I would love to share this with my family in Spanish if such video as this detailed is around .

[@dougules]

It is possible to turn on auto-generated subtitles if that helps.

[@Airstotlewrites]

Fantastic video

[@DCONightingale]

I grew up next door to a Haitian family. During the summer, a few of their relatives would come stay with them, one of them being a boy around my age. We became great friends over the next few years, until my neighbors moved and I never saw him again. Then the 2010 earthquake happened and I wondered if he’s okay. Wherever he is, I pray he and his family are safe and hopefully living somewhere in better condition than their homeland.

[@NineCylinderDiesel]

Honestly, he was probably eaten by his fellow countrymen

[@caseypenk]

Imagine taking a flight to DR but your flight gets diverted to Haiti ☠️

[@mnm5165]

Blame the French for that

[@VivaLaGEOLANDIA]

@@mnm5165 It's the *KFC people* to blame

[@bababababababa6124]

I pray French people who are flying to New York have their flight diverted there to see the damage they did inshallah If you want to make yourself mad, scroll down to the depths of these comments and see what the incels down there are saying about Haiti, it’ll make you sad.

[@peterjones5243]

​@@mnm5165Is the pilot French?

[@tombo416]

@@peterjones5243don’t play dumb bro you know who’s fault this is

[@hectorpena5194]

Great job 👍

[@mermarseo]

I visited the DR 20 years ago on my honeymoon. It was a natural wonder, just beautiful. I remember all the lovely celebrity homes. It was hard to understand how the island had such different countries on it. We didn't visit Haiti, but have fond memories of the Dominican Republic.

[@piobmhor8529]

It’s even better today. The Dominicans are lovely friendly people, the by-product of increasing prosperity and employment. Although I was there for work, I took time to tour around. You are right, it is a natural wonder.

[@javiazar]

It's not hard to understand. One side has been run by Haitians, and the other side by Dominicans. It's like failing to understand why Japan is awesome and Ethiopia sucks... It's the people. It's always the people.

[@ugandalorian495]

@@piobmhor8529just don’t try and go too towards other places that aren’t tourist

[@mohammadhmaidan1217]

@@javiazar the people play a role thats for sure but to a certain degree the people in charge hold a much more significant role in where society is headed. Now I don't know much about Haiti but I do know much about Iraq's, Lebanon's, Lybia's, and Egypt's history where in every single country since WW1 the west especially the US, UK, and France always supported tyrants that the people don't want over actual good leaders who wanted whats best for the country and the people. literally every single time a good leader emerges the superpowers would wage direct and indirect warfare just to place a tyrant in his place and this continual degradation in leadership supported by the west will ultimately create the society that is often looked down upon as "uncivilized". unfortunate.

[@ZoeBando]

Haiti is just as beautiful.

[@alexistaverasparra3842]

As a dominican, THANK YOU Joseph. There are a few mistakes here and there, but this is by far the most fair and unbiased video I’ve ever seen on this topic done by an American. I appreciate how you disproved the myth that Haiti is poor solely because of the debt it had to pay to France. And thank you for not blaming DR for Haiti’s problems, something international media falsely claims all the time.

[@cesarT921]

Polymater's video is also very objective. You will like it as it is also very balanced

[@trinistar1930]

Exactly 💯 they like to blame DR as if we have anything to do with haiti lacking in everything as a failed country . They did this to themselves , they assassinated their own president and still have none , they are ran by gangs and are multiplying like 🪳🪳🪳🐀. To top it all off , they worship SATAN .

[@Tonilategola]

France needs to address thier colonial history, or it will be done for them

[@stevenkidd6761]

​@@TonilategolaVietnam anyone?

[@yo2trader539]

Just curious, why doesn't DR just invade/occupy Haiti? I presume Dominicans would know far more how Haiti operates than Kenyans.

[@user-ul6dc4qc4j]

My buddy from the DR showed me a satellite picture of Hispaniola & you can see the border from space. Forest on DR side, grasslands on the Haitian side.

[@CB-jz7bo]

This video was amazing

[@cambyses1529]

I lived in DR for about a year, we did a day trip to Haiti. This was almost 20 years ago. The difference between the two was extraordinary. Trees on one side, near desert on the other, houses on one side, hovels on the other. And I remember while the ordinary people were clearly mired in abject poverty with whole families of children literally sharing one person's clothes between them - hanging around in the background were well dressed (and clearly dodgy) young men on motorbikes watching everything. I'm not sure when Haiti wasn't in really bad way.

[@CountYulith]

Sheer human greed and lack of any foresight for the future is why the Haitian side is so heavily deforested. In 1923 over 60% of Haiti's land was forested. In 2006, less than 2% of the land was forested, even worse today I am sure. They violated that land like the trees were goods in a supermarket and they just looted it until there was nothing left.

[@godofthisshit]

@@CountYulith Forced poverty drive people to desperation. Paying reparations for slavers, with what should've been your closest ally(the U.S) backing it is disgusting.

[@jacobjames5536]

@@godofthisshitThe US loved slavery and kept it for longer than Haiti. Haiti has been by itself and attacked since day 1 by the French and other western colonial/imperial powers. This current intervention is meant to set up a new puppet government in Haiti so that the US can continue to rob Haiti. The Haitians would be better off with the gangs/warlords organizing a new government than what’s set come from outside forces.

[@gracequach6769]

@@godofthisshit Unfortunately, lack of foresight is lack of foresight no matter how much your situation sucks, and trees won't feel sorry for you and grow faster

[@godofthisshit]

@@gracequach6769 I disagree. If someone runs out of $500 is a lot different than if someone runs out of $500 million. $500 must be spent to survive, $500 million isn't required for one person to survive.

[@dannytaveras1521]

I m a Dominico-American in the Dominican Republic. Also, a soldier. A lot of people think we hate each other, but we don't, many Haitians in DR. Many welcome, studying and working very hard. Others are not, like criminals and and gang members. Thanks for sharing the knowledge 👍.

[@emanueldelacruz1101]

We just want them to go back to Haiti. No resentment here

[@ytpr9420]

That’s interesting. I must say every Haitian I know claims that the Dominicans and Haitians do not get along.

[@Tanner2real]

​@ytpr9420 exactly same with me

[@user-lp2ug7yk6d]

false i lived in D.R for 4 years and dominicans treats haitians like lower class citizens even worse and dominicans is not as smart as haitians but dominicans are very cruel toeards haitians

[@pablovf]

After reading La Fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa I had the feeling Dominicans despised their island brothers. Glad to know that isn't always the case.

[@giannidcenzo]

Sharp. Very informative

[@JC_Cali]

One of the most detailed, informative, fair, and honest videos about Haiti's history on the internet. I never knew that Haiti literally conquered it's neighbor for a minute that explains so much - but damn does France own so much of the blame - and the bulk of reparations (with its ally, the USA)

[@nicollecespedes1299]

Very descriptive! As born and raised in Dominican Republic, no even in school, teached us so much about the history of both countries. Thank you

[@Ranguvar13]

2:54 “injure more than $12,000” 💀

[@Mayakran]

@@Ranguvar13”twelve thousand others.”

[@treasurethetime2463]

Native born people from most countries are some of the most ignorant people in the world about their own country’s history. That’s why talking to them is usually a waste of time if you want to learn history.

[@johnvan6803]

Taught -- not "teached!"

[@sageex3931]

Yep

[@odea8505]

As a Haitian, I'm impressed with this documentary. Job well done sir.

[@michaelwang6125]

I actually support the respiration request by Haiti for France to payback but... Given the instability and risk of corruption (in term of the billions being misused) I think it would be better for it to be 10-15 billion (not 21) (with adjustable inflation year by year) to be pay back and over *next 20 years* instead of 1 time payment*. Long term stability is what Haiti needs and not relaying on a sudden of a jackpot income to resolve its economic need. e.g Many nation had in the past opt to invade their neighboring island/nations as a way to stabilize/centralize their domestic control ... edit: some nation are still doing it today instead of spending the effort to resolve the problem & cultural improvement. *Payment can also be made directly such as construction of hospital, school -etc which can create the condition of making it more appealing for France citizens to accept the terms. While the target is for this to create a positive circle (reversing the negative circle created from the debt crisis) 33:08 Cross Finger this video by @RealLifeLore don't get mass flagged by Little Pinks //Taiwanese Canadian :)

[@bobjohnson1633]

Money doesn't matter at all. Money is just a medium of trade that is representative of labor. If they don't work, the money will be meaningless because there will b nothing to buy, and the few things available to buy will just be ultra expensive

[@michaelmeyers3664]

Why don't Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Oprah go and take care of their people??? Building a wall is racist!!

[@user-dv3kq3rm4h]

@@michaelwang6125 I agree, to deter corruption, maybe the money could be put into a neutral account and the money going directly to build the infrastructure of the country. These purchases could be overseen by the UN. Sounds a bit colonial or like policing but at least it would ensure the country's' infrastructure is slowly rebuilt.

[@GreoGreo]

@@tedundercarriage8183 Who hurt you? 😂😂

[@bethc5905]

Very good documentary

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

So... haiti is basically a sub-saharan african country in the middle of the americas, in the caribeans

[@sauronthegreat5799]

The blacks were brought there by the French as slaves to work the sugar plantations. The carib Indians who were the indigenous peoples were wiped out.

[@benm38]

Yes…. But…. There’s so much else 😅

[@Brandon-kg9ue]

Yea basically said lets go back to stone age

[@MFnDahk]

​@@benm38 no, there's really not..

[@djstackademikz]

@@Brandon-kg9ue na

[@technoguyx]

The Haiti-República Dominicana conflict is one that's rarely talked about in mainstream media, myself I had no idea about it until I met a Dominican colleague last year who told me the entire history, territorial claims etc. So it's great to see quality content about this topic in this channel. Keep up the great work

[@WarrenFearchild]

They claim DR belong to them😂😂💀Dominicans were created in the island, they were brought in the late 1700s 100-200 years after the creation of the dominican people

[@LaSombraa]

DR will take over the entire island one day lol

[@cavebabybezerkers]

​@@LaSombraaThey will get 👏

[@cavebabybezerkers]

​@@LaSombraaDR is enemy to every single black nation on planet earth 🌏

[@deac19201]

same here im dominican , thanks for the attention!

[@lurekayaklrf]

Every week there’s literally another reason my ‘fuck France’ tattoo is the most truthful bit of ink on my body.

[@celsovazquez7175]

One of the major reasons the Dominican Republic thrived and Haiti did not was that the French once they exploited Haiti they left and completely forgot Haiti to this day. In the other hand, today Spain is the Dominican Republic's third largest foreign investor (after the United States and Canada). When the European powers left Haiti became lawless and The Dominicans with trial and error build a Democratic/Republic country that attracted Investors from all over the world. You have to give Dominicans a lot of credit, after Spain left the got invaded by Haiti and were able to later reclaim their country and thrive as a nation.

[@JapeCity]

British: "We're the most heartless colonial force" French: "Hold my croissant"

[@jpb2366]

what France did is nothing surprising. It's called "war reparations". A very very commun war negotiation. People just feel bad because "black people sad"

[@Domhnall1989]

Haiti has been independent for over 300 years

[@helenachase5627]

Well said, and with humour

[@CabbageYe]

​@@Domhnall1989it's easier to blame colonialism 🤭

[@mradventurer8104]

@@Domhnall1989 since 1808 but you are right that is along time: 216 years!

[@josuealexanderolaverrianie3169]

As a Dominican I thank you for bringing awarenes to this topic! Stay strong my fellow Haitians, there's still hope for a brighter future.

[@lelnin]

The only hope is for DR to reconquer their land and establish isla Hispañola.

[@allydr90]

​@@lelnin I don't think Haitians or Dominicans want that any time soon.

[@albertoalvarez893]

@@lelnin Nope

[@Rfpenab]

@@lelninhell nah

[@AngelicaEstherxo]

@@lelninHaitians wont want that. There’s a big use of voodoo which will be a problem. If they didn’t do that, we would be happily united.

[@peterschaeffer]

Haiti's debt was in Francs. Converted to dollars it was trivial. Vast amounts of foreign aid has gone into Haiti and gone down the drain.

[@johnmoran4469]

Good video well done.

[@USMC49er]

The Dominican Republic has a huge tourist economy that has existed for decades, which Haiti never had at the same level. Punta Cana is one of the biggest resorts in the Caribbean and that was founded by a New York entrepreneur and a Dominican entrepreneur back in the late 60s. DR was also heavily featured in Jurassic Park, so Hollywood added yet more value to the nation back in the 90s. While DR caught lightning in a bottle with all the support, shame that Haiti got struck by lightning twice in the past decade with the Earthquake and gang wars. The DR is still a pretty impoverished country as my mom was born and immigrated from there when she turned 18. Many places still don't have regular plumbing or even paved roads.

[@arh1234]

I think it's a little chicken vs egg. Haiti has been too dangerous for even aid workers for most of my life; not so the DR

[@skillet9141]

My mother left La Romana at around 20. Still knows almost nothing in English. 😅

[@edelyncordero]

As a Dominican born, raised and currently living in the country, I can only say that we have worked very hard to make our lives better. We are nowhere near a second or first world quality of life level, but we are trying, and pushing, and working very hard. We deserve to have a government that cares for us, a good healthcare system and education, and we continue to strive to achieve that.

[@MrMAIRENEE]

Exactly, they put things like if were easy for us.

[@jpb2366]

This video is a bit "black people biais" where anything bad happening to blacks is because of oppression and anything good happening to white (Dominican being white is very subjective) is because of luck and privilege. Classic. Nothing about the massacres of Haitians whites are one of the main reason for their catastrophic history for the next 300 years. Why you think France was mad?

[@oneshotrobb7272]

Wtf do you think that has to do with your nations culpability in this situation?

[@edelyncordero]

@@oneshotrobb7272 the way the Dominican republic is portrayed in the video makes is seem as if we have had an easy ride. And also, I wanted to point out that every country is responsible for their own growth, so there's that sweetie.

[@edelyncordero]

Plus, if we are making a comparison between two countries, it's only fair that people who are actually involved in the matter and living in one of those countries, are allowed to provide their own pov.

[@julioc5227]

Excellent video

[@brucelee5576]

Vietnam and Haiti both were French colonies to won their freedom but today one countries had one of the fastest growing economy and the other is about to collapse.

[@klocugh12]

Great video as usual. Small correction: feedback loop crashing Haiti's economy is also a POSITIVE feedback loop. Positive/negative feedback does not refer to whether effects are positive or negative. It refers to whether effects of loop balance out to equilibrium (negative feedback) or spiral out of control to even bigger effects in the future (positive feedback).

[@atashgallagher5139]

Negative feedback means that a decrease leads to a decrease. Positive feedback means that an increase leads to an increase. Basically if the output of a process decreases that process its a negative feedback loop. Whereas if the product of a process leads to an increase in that process its a positive feedback loop. Positive feedback would be like global warming melting ice that's trapping methane causing more global warming causing more ice melting releasing more methane and so on. A negative feedback loop would be the outcome of trees growing shading the ground leading to fewer trees growing in that spot.

[@klocugh12]

@@atashgallagher5139 negative feedback decreases output if output deviates upwards of equilibrium, if output is below equilibrium, it will increase back towards it. Point is NOT whether output increases/decreases in general, but whether it spirals out of control from equilibrium or does it return to it. Think a ball in the bottom of the valley. Give it a shove. It will roll a little upwards, stop, roll downwards and a little back and forth, but eventually due to friction, oscillation will die down and ball will be sitting in the bottom again. Positive feedback would be ball on top of the hill. Give it a shove. It will roll down from the top in direction you gave it a shove even further, even faster.

[@mabru9816]

@@atashgallagher5139 Negative feedback loop is a process of checks and balances. Positive feedback is entropy allowing to build without being able to stop it. If more energy into a system slows that system down in a way that is beneficial, it's a negative feedback loop. If more energy into a system speeds that system up in a way that spirals out of control, it is a positive feed back loop. An input that leads to a decrease or an input that leads to an increase. What @klocugh12 is saying is correct.

[@obtuseangler768]

@klocugh12 ...whatever are you going on about!? You might have fooled 182 people that you have a clue what you're talking about but the first reply here is correct whereas you are totally incorrect. You could barely misunderstand feedback loops more if you actually tried🤓

[@klocugh12]

@@obtuseangler768 if you can't follow a simple example, commonly given on control theory courses, and even in research papers, you have some learning to do. You were incorrect in the first reply indeed. What is decreased by negative feedback loop is NOT always the output of process, but DEVIATION from equilibrium. Another, simpler example: a process with negative feedback loop, and equilibrium at 1, perturbed downwards to 0.8, will INCREASE output back to 1* and NOT decrease it as you claimed. Likewise, in such conditions a positive feedback loop would FURTHER decrease output and NOT increase it, again, unlike what you said in first comment. *This will hardly ever be instantaneous in real world processes due to all kinds of factors that can collectively (but not necessarily accurately) be named inertia. But after said inertia is overcome, it will indeed happen.

[@michaelmayhem350]

I'm lived in the RD since 2010 so I wanted to clarify some points the RD has gone out of it's way to help Haitians who come to the DR to easily obtain a government ID (cédula) so they can live & work in RD. 75% of births in public hospitals are hatian. The wall is primarily due to the fact that on the RD side of the the island is a protected forest which Haitians frequently invade to cut down trees. The RD won't send troops to Haiti to help restore order because #1 Haiti previously ruled the RD as you covered but additionally Trujillo attempted to exterminate all Haitians (not sure why you excluded this from your video). #3 there's no interest in the RD to help Haiti so any president who tries would be committing political suicide.

[@Dominicano809_]

💯

[@modestoca25]

The Haitians need to quell the rabbit-like birth rates...That's part of the poverty problem

[@Tank175]

Although most things are true, DR also revoked the right to a passport a in the later half of the 2010s and the fact that disaster refugees have been classified as migrants and that there anti-Haitian protests shows that there is still a deep divide.

[@michaelmayhem350]

@@Tank175 they were classified as migrants, given a cédula and permitted to stay and work. Ie the "refugees" were integrated into society as opposed to the refugee camps you see in most countries. & yeah there are ant-hatian protests, it's to be expected when the majority of the of tax money goes to supporting Haitians over dominicans. Not to mention the recent Haitian bullshit with them damming the river that drifts temporarily into Haiti. What the domican military should do is just divert the river so it doesn't flow into Haiti since Haiti insists on building the illegal dam.

[@mariotheundying]

@@Tank175 well if we keep this up then there would be more Haitians than Dominicans in dr and that's no good

[@ixsandsxi7938]

Leave the country alone to do what it wants and build a big, secure border along the DR. The Developed World is living in debt and people are hurting there with their own problems. People need to learn to look after themselves.

[@TheDragonSeer]

Yes. The US needs to end its protective policies over Latin American and Caribbean countries and let them do whatever they want.

[@gsdistribution7417]

Thanks. I am domincan and Haiti Is a very strange country to us. Their culture, language etc

[@chrisbrossette]

I have not been back to Haiti in several years. The last trip was to bring a young Haitian back to the US for a college degree. He went back after finishing his degree, married his girlfriend and had a child. He has not been able to accomplish much due to the political environment with the gangs. We will not go back even though we used to fly in into Port-au-Prince and drive ourselves across the island without any major worries. We have friends on the island, in Haiti and the DR, who are struggling to survive. What ‘government’ is there makes it hard to help. I was in Jacmel after the earthquake and remember the sights of buildings pancaked. The horror of the loss of life could hardly be imagined. One day, I pray the island finds peace.

[@soniacanalla900]

Do this person with his family have a way to get out?

[@chrisbrossette]

@@soniacanalla900 Unfortunately they do not. They have contacts in Florida Haitian Community that have been trying to get them and others out of the country legally but that is a challenge with their non-existent government, the corruption of public officials, and the limited access to the US Embassy.

[@gatsbyreality9986]

i keep seeing the influx of haitian immigrants into mexico, and i as a mexican person wanted to find out more about what’s been going on with haiti. My god, can this country and people just get a break!!!!! nothing but interventions, disasters, and ,isfortunes. I send blessings to the unfortunate people from haiti.

[@Assata_Shakur]

Do you live in Mexico.. Or the U.S.?

[@gatsbyreality9986]

@@Assata_Shakuri live in USA, but travel to mexico often to visit family.

[@RolyBelle]

thank you for your blessings

[@hermanajoseph4578]

Amazing video

[@lgmxgrmx2088]

I always was under the impression the Dominicans deeply hated Haitians but from what I read in this comment section it's not totally true. Given the fact the History said that Haiti succesfully invaded the DR once and tried again 14 other times. The narative that they invaded them for their own good to free them from slavery and prevent futur return of the Europeans will never be valid because apparently slavery wasn't as brutal on the DR side than it was on Haitis side. Nobody likes to be invaded what ever the intention was, even if apparently when it was succesful it was a request from a large group of Dominicans back then. And I don't need to be Haitian or Dominican to know these Facts. I did live in both countries for a while so I had time to learn about their history. The DR is miles ahead of Haiti but I seriously don't think the DR had ever have the US and Frances boots on their neck like Haiti had, but mainly the US. Wheter it's invading the country murdering any person who dares to say something and expose their dead boies in the sun to strike fear in the rest of the population. Or havig to pay France reperation for property loss (the slaves). Along the way the US bought the debt from France. They finished paying more than 100 years later. And yes after finishing paying they could have started developing but then they had to pay the money they had to borrow from the US to pay the Frances debt. Yeah that doen't make much since but the US forced them to borrow money from their Banks to pay the US again, which they probaly still haven't finished to repay yet. Or dumping toxic waste in one of their main bays. Keeping an evil leader in power, Mass shooting ordered by the CIA to avoid the election of a Presidential candidate that US didn't like, or commercial and international restriction like not alowing the Haitian goverment to arm the police but allowing massive shipments of weapons in the country destined the the gangs. Or Mr Clinton just ordering the country to stop producing their own food and buy food directly and exclusively from his home State instead. Which in the long term made them almost totally dependant of importing food from the US and DR. Or the US dismantling the Haitian army. Or kidnaping their elected leader and put him in a plane at gun point to an African country. Or sending Mr. Clinton to do what ever he did with the money for the reconstruction of the major cities that were totally destroyed in the 2010s earthquake, money that the amrican people donated. We are talking about billions here but only 2 plywood sheet houses were built and less than 10% of the actual money was given to the Haitian people. Or recently the last Haitian President was assasinated in his home by a group of colombian mercenaries hired by a US security company and payed with the money that came from a Bank on the US soil. Adding to that a prime Minister placed 2 days before the assassination of the President and was heavily supported by the american goverment. Every single time something horrible happened in this country, one way or an other tou would find the US mot too far, there is plenty more other horrible things that could be said. But what do I know, maybe the Haitians got in this situation on their own, they shouldn't stay with a victim mentality and find a way to get out of there and fast.

[@axolotl1777]

They always want to call us dominicans racist without knowing the full story

[@kylebrothers5910]

I am/ was a US Marine. I was deployed to Haiti as a very young man and it was my first experience in another country. Haiti then back in 2003 doesn't look any different than what Haiti looks like in this video in 2023. I will quote Roudolf Bandings WW1 account, " Rubbish doesn't require and explanation it always looks the same...." While I was there the same problems and happenings were prevalent. Trash is just heaped into the streets, the gangs were ruthless, usually they can't even bury their dead then and used to in some areas put a corpse on a pile of trash and pigs would eat them. I as a young man felt very sorry for the people of this nation. I wish for the best of folks that live in Haiti and it is only the people there that can get their country on its feet, asking the world to intervene may not be the answer they seek.

[@bscottb8]

Don't expect much in a country with an average IQ of 67.

[@als3022]

Correct, no matter how much the outside world funnels into Haiti, if it doesn't help itself it is just throwing money away. They have to change it themselves.

[@jesss428]

I totally agree

[@francoisgrimard5816]

Having lived in Haiti for many years as a foreigner in the “good years”, my heart breaks for the country’s kind and hard working citizens 😔

[@mick-berry5331]

I feel the same, having lived in Haiti at the beginning of the 1980s. 😢

[@lefantomer]

@@mick-berry5331 I visited Haiti twice about 40 years ago to supervise some work at a textile factory. Despite the poverty the people were welcoming and courteous, I used public transportation without fear and stayed at a wonderful hotel in the hills. It is so sad to see what has happened to that country and I am so sorry for its people.

[@xTROLLINGx]

And thanks to this video we can now blame the french.

[@trekk2063]

Nope, not paying a penny to old issues that happened well before my birth

[@yolandacroes5491]

So why did the Haitians have to pay for things that happened a century before their birth?

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures/maps enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. What's preventing the gang violence from spilling over into Dominican republic -???😳

[@amaurysu3190]

The fact that any violence is met with equal or more force, and that may threaten innocent families already residing on Dominican soil.

[@koriifaloju2051]

You hit many key issues on the head Well done

[@lauraromos3456]

Reparation won't fix anything in Haiti if there's not law and order implemented before they get that money. As a Dominican 🇩🇴 I hope the best for Haiti 🇭🇹.

[@quintusantell2912]

Kind of a bad spot for them then considering reparations is partly to blame for Haiti's continued poverty.

[@DarthVader1977]

Reparations*

[@DarthVader1977]

@@quintusantell2912 Always full of excuses. It's always someone else's fault.

[@ILikeMyPrivacytbt]

Haiti should ask Africa for reparations, it was Africa through the trans-Saharan slave trade that sold slaves to Europe.

[@omgbuffy2276]

​@@ILikeMyPrivacytbtno they should ask the French. They were forced to pay for their freedom from slavery until the earthquake.

[@hollerinwoman]

I appreciate all the work that you put into making this video about Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I discovered quite a bit I didn't know. The French double debt is particularly tragic in my opinion. It seems that NO country who came through Haiti actually helped them at all, but damaged them so they had trouble helping themselves.

[@mistybabe5489]

real sad especially since they helped train bolivar and his forces who went on the free their countries from spain.

[@jb5nf]

​@@mistybabe5489Bolivar went to officer's training school in Spain. Haiti did provide arms.

[@alessandrorossi1294]

Every country has it hard, no excuse

[@wenmoonson]

True, but the Clinton Foundation DID HELP...themselves to global earthquake aid money.

[@iLLWiLLx21]

The gangs and corrupt politicians make it difficult for other countries to help. He mentioned that in the last few minutes