my experience had been the harder working haitians were the ones who struggled to get here....that is dated to be honest.
i ran ships to Haiti from 87 till the murdering priest took over
had offices in Petionville and Miragoane and Gonaives and San Marc and Petit Goave...did some business in Jeremy and Jacmel
food staples mostly and cement
Haiti is a lost cause, depopulate and start over is their only chance lest someone discovers the world’s largest “fill in the blank resource” deposit there
the Haitian people are not so violent really but things just tend to boil up and it’s all of a sudden thunderdome
I see though that US style hip hop thuggery has permeated the slums now there much like in Kingston
which can’t be good.
> Haiti is a lost cause
Its a shame, too because they are really good people. After Aristide no one is going to invest there so that some Hugo Chavas wannabe can just come in and take it.
> US style hip hop thuggery has permeated the slums
The Haitians that I know are in the mountains, north of Jacmel. Subsistance farmers, mostly. My wife calls them “rednecks”. They don’t care too much for the city people.