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Article: Haiti, Relations with
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HAITI, RELATIONS WITH
HAITI, RELATIONS WITH.
Relations between the United States and Haiti, the two oldest republics in the Western Hemisphere, have often been troubled. For most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, race played a key role in the contact between the two nations. During the last several decades, other issues
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immigration, security, and narcotics trafficking
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have dominated their relationship.
In 1804, following years of rebellion against their French masters, Haitians were able to declare the independence of their island nation (which also encompassed the present-day nation of the Dominican Republic until 1844). Despite profitable trade relations ...