1861. Demonstration of force by the squadron of Gutiérrez de Rubalcava in the bay
of Port-au-Prince in 1861.
The Spaniards who came, at the call of some Dominicans, to annex the country
neighbor held the Haitian government responsible for taking arms of José
Maria Cabral and sent seven warships to the harbor of Port-au-Prince.
President President Geffrard, who was helping the Dominican patriots and had
protested the annexation, was forced to accept a humiliating commitment and
costly: to stay out of the colony’s business; to refuse any assistance to
Dominican revolutionaries and to pay the sum of $200,000 to Spain as
compensation for the property destroyed in past invasions.
Let us recall that the Spanish had already tried to blackmail the government of
Jean Pierre Boyer.
2005. Massacre at Cité Soleil by MINUSTAH helmets:
Qualified by the UN as a “security operation” (Press Release
PIO/PR/148/2005), this massacre was carried out before dawn by at least four hundred
Peacekeepers mounted forty armored tanks and protected by two helicopters.
Cité Soleil, the largest slum in Port-au-Prince, was described as a repair of
bandits by the Haitian bourgeoisie (gathered within group 184), because the
majority of its inhabitants still remained attached to the Lavalas movement.
2018. Beginning of three days of chaos in Haiti:
Following the announcement of an increase in fuel prices (Gasoline would go from
224 to 309 gourdes, an increase of 38%; the diesel from 179 to 264 gourdes,
is an increase of 47%; and kerosene would be sold at 262 Gourdes for 173
the day before, an increase of 51%), the Haitian population became angry
and manifested violently. Less than 24 hours after the announcement, the government
to withdraw the increase measure and Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant and
his government was forced to resign on 14 July.