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...Louisiana Territory, which he planned to make the hub of a New World empire. President Thomas Jefferson was so alarmed, he considered making an alliance with Britain to drive the French out. But when the French troops en route to occupying Louisiana died of yellow fever in Haiti, Napolon decided to cut his losses and sold the territory to the U.S. for the bargain price of $15 million. By 1861, however, Napolon's nephew Napolon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing...
Akpan broke onto the national soccer scene last winter as part of the United States’ U-20 team for the CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament in Panama. There, he helped to earn his team a bid to the FIFA U-20 World Cup, scoring a remarkable hat trick against Haiti...
...cannot guarantee universal education or universal health care access to all Dominicans or to Haitians, but it is not guaranteed in Haiti, either,” he said. “The tendency is to blame the Dominican Republic for something that affects both countries...
...will probably talk about Dominican Republic’s recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands of Haitians to squalid conditions within the burgeoning sugar, banana, and coffee plantations of the emergent Dominican Republic...
...Relations between the two countries have been strained for over two hundred years. When Haiti won its independence in 1804, it quickly began a conquest of the Dominican Republic, holding parts of the nation to its east until 1844. In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo instituted a program of ethnic cleansing in which his soldiers rounded up and killed more than 25,000 Haitians and black Dominicans along the countries’ border by shooting them, hacking them up with machetes, or marching them into the sea. The river separating the two countries, Rio Massacre, is now named...