Haitiball/History

== Istwa (History) ==
Like any major Caribbean country, Haitiball was born as a Tainoball that sailed from South America though canoe to Hispaniola, The Tainoballs bulit 5 caciquedoms, or chiefdoms all over the island clay, with only 2 being on today Haitian territory.
=== Rule of Espay (1490's to 1697) ===
In 1492, an unknown visitor known as Spanish Empireball landed on Hispaniolan clay and founded "La-Navidad" (predicted to be modern-day Cap-Haïtienball). It was known if Haitiball was the first place to be discovered by Spainball, but it was at an early time.
But a century later, the Caribbean would be a hotspot for Pirates. "free real estate" These pirates, working for Kingdom of Franceball settled a french colony in Northern Haiti. It wasn't official until Kingdom of Franceball finally came to the 1697 "Treaty of Ryswick" came to be splitting Hispanola into two clays.
 Franceball was more brutal than Spain, Haiti was abused by his own mother very badly than Spain has. Franceball had relied on her child Saint-Domingueball to be forced to farm and grow sugar cane, cotton, and coffee beans along with more exports all with no sleep 24/7, having dumped a lot of slaves onto its clay. Under these conditions, Haiti's clay started to decline from rich to really poor.
The class system in Saint-Domingueball. Rich families were white consisting of settlers and children from Franceball who lived fancy lives in Hispaniola. In the middle of the pyramid, there were 8balls who were free to be as long as they were of mixed race. All down below were 8balls who were the majority of the island. All these other groups hated each other for their life differences.
The Haitian Revolution was caused by Franceball facing it's own revolution in revolution, many enslaved 8balls gathered in a Voodoo ritual one night and planned how they will take out their slavers. The next day the colony went into anarchy from 1791 to 1804. By 1793, famous generals Toussaint Louverture, 	Alexandre Pétionm, Dutty Boukman, and Henri Christophe manage to free all the 8balls. But, now Saint-Domingueball would face a new problem. UKball had declared war on Franceball and sent ships to invade the island in the opportunity to colonize Saint-Domingueball and extract the colony's wealth, but Saint-Domingueball did not want to be slaves of the British, so they were forced to fight with the French. Napoleon, the new ruler of Franceball, wanted to restore slavery, so both sides were fighting again. It was known the general Napoleon had sent Poles to support the French against the local rebels in exchange for liberating the Polish homeland from foreign occupiers. But when they got there, they were stunned and were reminded of the partition of their homeland. In response, the Poles started helping the Haitians which contributed to Haitian independence which is why they have honored the title of "white negros".
By 1801, Saint-Domingueball declared autonomy. Henri Christophe burnt down the capital to sabotage the French. Sadly his comrade Toussaint Louverture was captured by French troops, sent in exile, and died in prison. Loverture will always remain a hero to the Haitians. Beating Franceball in his battle it proclaimed independence on January 1, 1804.
The insanity of the revolt had displaced many Haitiballs and Frenchballs who fled to Cubaball and Louisianaball's clay to seek labour and better lives. The population was known as Haitians, with the word "Haiti" being in native Taino for "land of mountains". Jean-Jacques Dessalines, another revolutionary took control of the countryball. Haitiball was independent of its abusive mother Franceball. Under Dessalines, Haitiball became the most 8ball influenced country in the Caribbean after kicking the Frenchballs off the island. The French portrays it as genocide. Franceball never made a huge presence again... for now.....
Haitiball would have been a wealthy country if it weren't for Franceball unfortunately years later, pissed by Haiti's decision for independence. France demanded Haiti to pay 150 million francs for "loosing property", that being the slaves who teamed on them. Franceball knew Haitiball couldn't afford (or want) to pay a heavy price, which is why France threatened them with gunboats. Haitiball was forced to apply. As said, Haiti couldn't afford it, so it got a wooden axe and chopped down as many trees to fill in the price. Barely any trading either, as most of the planet did not want a black nation to succeed. From 1925 to 1934, it gathered all the money and tress for this. This is another reason the people of Haiti despised Franceball as this was the root of their poverty and finical problems. Years back, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated just 2 years after proclaiming himself Haitian emperor. The political divide between former revolutionaries Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion broke the country into two. The empire even lost claim to Spanish Santo Domingoball. One ruled the State of Haitiball (later Kingdom of Haitiball) and the other with the authoritarian republic.
 Kingdom of Haitiball was more aggressive and willing to free other nations (like Venezuelaball, Colombiaball, and Greeceball) by sending troops and aid. It was wanting to trade and allowed citizens to redistribute land in the constitution. Kingdom of Haitiball allowed Europeans to contribute to the rapidly developing Haitian economy. (Some of them were Germanballs investing in tea). Kingdom of Haitiball started to decline because Henri used heavy labor to get the job done, which is pure irony to the country. Eventually, he was left by everyone he trusted and committed suicide. The Republic was less authoritarian and redistributed lands to the poor majority from the rich. It also helped Simon. The president, Alexandre Pétion, would have died from yellow fever and his trusted friend Jean-Pierre Boyer took over. Eventually the north and South reunited.
In 1821 the rest of Spanish Santo Domingoball gained independence as Spanish Haitiball. With nothing to do, Spanish Haitiball was to join Haitiball, even if Spanish Haitiball wanted to join Gran Colombiaball. This is how Hispanola was united with Jean-Pierre Boyer in charge. But as said, Haiti paid an unfair debt with weakened the economy. Hispanolaball suffered an earthquake in 1842 and Boyer fled. In 1848 Dominican Republicball seceded from Haiti causing a lot of long-lasting tension between the two countries forever to come. Dominican Republicball was very ungrateful about it and always talks about the invasion to demoralize its brother, but in reality, the United Hispanola banned slavery from the other side of the island the Spanish left behind. Relations improved with the two in the 1860s.
 USAball also took Navassa Islandball using the Guano Islands Act in 1856. Haitiball was angry at this. This makes Haiti the Argentinaball of Navassa Islandball and USAball like UKball, LOL.
=== Occupation; MURICA FUCK YEAH! (1914-1934) ===
 Haitiball would experience a lot of political corruption and discrimination from the outside world. USAball was worried Haiti "would side with German Empireball" who was at war due to influence from the German minority. USA had stole many dollars from the national bank of Haiti which Haiti needed to pay to France, and next year, had marines dock by and troops land in Port-au-Princeball and occupied the nation. USAball introduced apartheid laws against the Haitian people (believe me, they literally did) and forced the population into slave labour. Also, Germans were deported from Haitiball and any barely ever came back. USAball elected puppets (that were the mixed-race minority) to kill and execute political prisoners. Anyone to put themselves in open rebellion would be shot in action, or burnt alive. These war crimes against Haitians. And oh boy, there were a lot of rioters.
Even after WW1 discontinued, USAball continued to occupy Haiti and wrongfully changed the constitution that give land ownership back to the rich. After USAball and its sad slave Haitiball defeated the remaining rebels, the people went back to their horrible conditions. America did improve a small bit, like giving Haiti a telephone, improving farming, and constructing buildings. The Americans finally left in 1934, but the damage had been done with a calculated 50,000 deaths on western Hispanola. A party known as the Haitian Communist Party had risen up by Jacques Roumain. Sténio Vincent, the American elected president, had to put the Communists down. Vincent's failure to respond against the Parsley Massacre (killings of Haitiballs by Evil racist Dominican Republicball) lead to protesters ravaging the countryball's capital. Vincent ended up stepping down as president 4 years later.
=== Post-Occupation and Corruption (1934-1959) ===
 Haitiball joined WW2 very late. But as a cause, it became a founding member od the UNball (*sarsatic cheering*), Yayyyyyy.
=== Duvalier's Regime (1957-1986) ===
After a election, François Duvalier ruled Haiti. However, he was a very corrupt leader who ruined the chance of fixing the country. (WIP)
After more political chaos Haitiball also can into the 1974 World Cup, but lost to Italyball with 3-1, Polandball with 7-0, and then Argentinaball with 4-1.
=== Modern times ===
In 1991, 1995, and 2004, USAball backed coups on Haitiball, except it got help by Polandball and Argentinaball in 1995.
It participated in the Miss Universe 2016 competition in Philippinesball with Raquel Pélissier, and got first runner-up just behind his mother Franceball's candidate Iris Mittenaere. They finally elected a new President on November 20, 2016. Recently, it is suffering from riots caused by an increase in gas prices, which caused Jack Lafontant to resign and leave the country without a prime minister.
The last legitimate president, Jovenel Moïse, was a corrupt drug trafficker, which was no surprise why he didn't do much about Colombiaball using his country to continue the illegal drug trade. By the end of his presidency, he illegally changed the constitution to stay in power. And when Moïse refused to leave as president after his presidential term expired, people were uproaring for democracy, causing murders and gang killings to happen. One night, gunmen entered his house. Without any police officers to be there, they assassinated him. And like that, Moise was assassinated on 7 July 2021 bringing a huge uproar to the country. A source had stated a Colombian man Duberney Capador, not alone, taken a flight to Haiti to assassinate the president. But also, Claude Joseph had stepped into acting for president but had been arrested and accused of killing Moise in Jamaicaball. Could it also been USAball, or Dominican Republicball? Who?
More unrest had followed, and with certain mafia hangs trying to take advantage of the country, and the government had nearly collapsed, like if Haiti was Anarchy to begin with. this brought UNball to discuss their intervention which still angers parts of the population. Some Haitian kidnapping gang had kidnapped some Christian missionaries tf they come for? Haiti is 90% Christian, dumbasses. The gang wants the FBI to send it 17 million dollars to free them. Days later Ariel Henry took in power, however, there is a controversy/conspiracy that Ariel might have helped Capador in the assassination. Oh, and there are recent protests about working-class conditions which (as usual) are met brutally by the police force. When will Haiti find peace?