Why Haiti is Dying & the DR is Booming

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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! ❤🎉

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.