Most Haitians do not have access to loans of any sort.

15-20 % of Haitians practice Protestantism.

He also didn't practice voodoo, but, like most Haitians he was Catholic.

In the United States, a similar practice began in the early 1980s with Haitians and Cubans detained at Guantanamo Bay, and other groups such as Chinese in jails and detention centres on the mainland.

The UN is urging Haitians on both sides to stop the violence.

In the end in spite of his international and local rebel backers, and in spite of appealing to young Haitians to follow him, Phillippe won less than 1 % of the vote, demonstrating that he was no popular hero and was only the leader of a false, mercenary rebel group.

Soon after, clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia were also reported among Haitians recently entering the United States and hemophiliacs, among female sexual partners of AIDS patients, and among blood transfusion recipients with no obvious risk factors.

He placed in these positions well-educated Haitians, who were disproportionately from the light-skinned elite, as gens de couleur were most likely to have been educated.

In 1936, 3 missionaries began to work among these Haitians who had been converted under Baptist ministry while they were working in Cuban sugar cane fields.

Large-scale emigration, principally to the United States, and Canada ( predominantly to Quebec, with other areas of the country )-but also to Cuba, other areas of Europe and the Americas such as France ( with French Guiana ), Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Ireland ; and Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and other Caribbean neighbors-has created what Haitians refer to as the Eleventh Department or the Diaspora.

The causes of riots by local Blacks against cases of police brutality by the Miami Police Department and competition with Cubans, Haitians and other Latinos.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

It also had the forty-fourth most Peruvians in the US, at 1. 26 % ( tied with North Plainfield, New Jersey ,) while it had the forty-fifth highest percentage of Haitians ( tied with Leisure City ), at 3. 6 % of all residents.

It also had the fifty-sixth most Haitians in the US, at 2. 50 % ( tied with five other areas in the US, including Plantation and Taft, FL ,) while it had the twentieth highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 2. 20 % of all residents.

It also had the thirty-second most Jamaicans in the US, at 4. 10 % ( tied with Tamarac and Royal Palm Beach ), while it had the fifty-fourth highest percentage of Haitians, at 2. 70 % of all residents ( tied with Jewett City, Connecticut, Georgetown, Delaware and Elizabeth, NJ ).

while Haitians had the thirty-fifth highest percentage, with 5. 20 % of the population.

It also has a very diversified Hispanic population with Cubans, Dominicans, and the more recent groups, such as South Americans and Central Americans, Haitians, Asian Indians, Koreans and Arabs.

He was one of the first Americans to visit Haiti with an open mind, and published " The Wisdom of the Haitians ," which, before the Civil War, was one of the few American works to take a positive view of Haitian independence.

Tommy makes alliance with Umberto Robina's Cubans against Auntie Poulet's Haitians, even though he is at the same time hypnotized by Poulet's voodoo into helping the Haitians.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have migrated to the Dominican Republic, with some estimates speaking of 800, 000 Haitians in the country, while some put the Haitian – born population as high as one million.

More recently the state has been flooded with Mexican nationals, Haitians and Euro-American hoteliers / tourists.

These maroons some of whom intermarried with the Taino creating a new race of children called ' marabout ', passed down their aspects of Taino culture unto other Haitians today.

All of this, along with the help of many who wanted to be rid of the Haitians who ruled over Dominicans led to the proclamation of independence on February 27, 1844 ( Dominican War of Independence ).

The Haitians remained frequent opponents and it was not until 1932 that their run of defeats was broken with a 4-1 home win in Port-au-Prince.

Such general arguments for a duty to rescue also explain why after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Haitians were digging family members, friends, and perfect strangers out of the rubble with their bare hands and carrying injured persons to whatever medical care was available.

Due to its border location, Jimaní became part of the strategic plans of Dictator Rafael L. Trujillo Molina for " Dominicanization " of all the region of the border with Haiti, which resulted in the genocide of thousands of Haitians by Trujillo's agents known as the Parsley Massacre.

The majority of the jimanisenses prefers to seek medical attention in the Regional University Hospital Jaime Mota of Barahona, due to that beds are almost always filled at full capacity by Haitians, especially with women crossing the border to give birth ( as well as in Dajabón ).

However, a Catholic Relief Services ( CRS ) rapid assessment of seed supply and demand for the 5 most common food security crops found that the Haitians had enough seed and recommended that imported seeds should be introduced only on a small scale.

In the film, he is depicted as a practitioner of Vodou ( voodoo ), but in reality Gaetjens, like most Haitians, grew up as a Catholic.

During Senate hearings in 1921, the commandant of the Marine Corps reported that, in the twenty months of active resistance, 2 250 Haitians had been killed.

Most Haitians continued to resent the loss of sovereignty.

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

Trujillo, determined to expand his influence over all of Hispaniola, in October 1937 ordered the indiscriminate butchery by the Dominican army of an estimated 15, 000 to 20, 000 Haitians on the Dominican side of the Massacre River.

The injection of international hurricane relief funds into an already corrupt system boosted graft to levels that disillusioned all Haitians.

An estimated 30, 000 Haitians were killed by his government.

An estimated 3 000 – 5 000 Haitians were killed during the period of military rule.

The United States Coast Guard interdicted ( in many cases, rescued ) a total of 41 342 Haitians during 1991 and 1992.

In the spring of 2008, Haitians demonstrated against rising food prices.

A million Haitians were left homeless, and hundreds of thousands are starving.

About 80-85 % of Haitians are of predominantly West African descent.

Though Haitians place a high value on education, few can afford to send their children to secondary school.

Remittances sent by Haitians living abroad are important in paying educational costs.

About one of every six Haitians live abroad.

Two-fifths of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country's widespread deforestation.

Although many Haitians make their living through subsistence farming, Haiti also has an agricultural export sector.

The government controls oil and gas prices, to an extent insulating Haitians from international price fluctuations.

By 2000, the cooperatives had crumbled and Haitians had collectively lost more than US $ 200 million in savings.

Radio still remains the primary information medium for most Haitians.

This differs from U. S. immigration policy applied to refugees of other Caribbean nations, notably Haitians.