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4.19- The History of Haiti

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The Duvallier Era

During the duvalier era, the hard pressed rural population had to either move to the cities in search of work or seasonally migrate over to the dominican republic factory farms. Something like four fifths of the educated professionals their families abandoned haiti during the duvallier era. And this is not good if you're trying to maintain some kind of stable and functioning economy d this is to say nothing of the now tens of thousands of rural and urban poor who also fled the country,. becoming the so called boat people that americans saw on the evening news allot in the 19 seventies and eighties. And what is now called the hatian diaspera. By the time baby

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