Haïti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince. Haitian Creole and French are the official languages.

Haiti's regional, historical, and ethno-linguistic position is unique for several reasons. It was the first independent nation in Latin America and the first black-led republic in the world when it gained independence as part of a successful slave revolution in 1804. Despite having common cultural links with its Hispano-Caribbean neighbors, Haiti is the only predominantly Francophone independent nation in the Americas. economy The main natural resources of Haiti are bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, limestone, gold, marl and hydropower. However, mineral resources are limited to small deposits. Only the bauxite has been commercially exploited on a significant scale [28].However, agriculture employs the bulk of the workforce with more than two-thirds of the population of working age. The farms are, above all, subsistence farms, of limited size, where coffee, cocoa, sisal, cotton, mangoes are the main exports. The population explosion and lack of competitiveness against imported products have considerably weakened the sector, whose production is increasingly for the domestic market with products such as corn, rice, fruit.The capital, Port-au-Prince, concentrating the majority of industrial activities in the country: the main products are electronic components, textiles and baseballs. The main trading partners of the Republic of Haiti is the United States to 85.2%, Canada 2.2%, France 1.5% and Germany at 1%.

On January 12, 2010, an earthquake fell upon this little island of the Greater Antilles, one of the poorest in the world. Although the exact number was difficult to determine, an