User:Joujoute/Sandbox

The year 2004, Haiti was at war with itself at that time and a complete revolt was about to take place. The Haitian government was in shambles and completely dismantled. The president at that time Jean-Bertrand Aristide was just ousted. Organized crime and rates skyrocketed and people were going hungry. Cite Soleil, Haiti’s largest slum, had become one of the most dangerous place in Port-Au-Prince. It was just immersed in violence and ruled by armed gangs. Armed gangs just terrorized local civilians and ran out local police. They inflicted all sorts of inhumane acts imaginable: rape, murder, and kidnappings. Haiti at that time became an icon that the media portrayed as a country of hopeless people. A never ending story of struggle and poverty-stricken people. These images also brought upon devastation to the entire Diaspora community of Haiti because it had become a place that no longer resembled the country that they knew and loved, but a place that they now feared to go back to every time they turned on the TV or turned the pages in their local news paper. In spite of all this, the media did not proclaim the causalities taken place, but rather pronounce the events themselves.