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I Jove Haiti, and I am trying to show the world some of its beauty and itsits quality.

Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas, whose legacies still reverberate.

When Haiti refused to declare war on Germany after the United States did, we dissolved the Haitian legislature.

United States effectively made colonies of Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and several other countries.

Thanks to the printing press, detailed news of Haiti and later conquests spread swiftly.

As we identify with the helpless earthlings, Wells wanted us also to sympathize with the natives on Haiti in 1493, or on Australia in 1788, or in the upper Amazon jungle in the 1990s.

Columbus and his men returned to Haiti in 1493, they demanded food, gold, spun cotton-whatever the Indians had that they wanted, including sex with their women.

On Haiti the colonists made the Indians mine gold for them, raise Spanish food, and even carry them everywhere they went.

As soon as the 1493 expedition got to the Caribbean, before it even reached Haiti, Columbus was rewarding his lieutenants with native women to rape.

On Haiti, sex slaves were one more perquisite that the Spaniards enjoyed.

Predictably, Haiti then became the site of the first large-scale slave revolt, when blacks and Indians banded together in 1519.

The seeds of that five-century battle were sown in Haiti between 1493 and 1500.

In 1499, when Columbus finally found gold on Haiti in significant amounts, Spain became the envy of Europe.

On his final voyage Columbus shipwrecked on Jamaica, and the Arawaks there kept him and his crew of more than a hundred alive for a whole year until Spaniards from Haiti rescued them.

Our young nation got its first chance to help in the 1790s, when Haiti revolted against France, Whether a president owned slaves seems to have determined his policy toward the second independent nation in the hemisphere.