r/haiti

Haitians across the U.S., especially those in the Northeast like NY and NJ, what are the main reasons you wouldn’t move to Florida, if any?

For Haitians currently living in Florida,especially in Miami, what are the main reasons you’ve chosen to stay, and have you ever considered relocating? If so, where and why?

I'd like to read more in Creole and I've been looking for Dèzafi by Frankétienne, but I can't find it anywhere in Creole. Does anyone know if it's available in PDF anywhere or if I can buy it somewhere in the U.S.

If you know of any other places to find books or anything in Creole, I would also appreciate it.

Mèsi anpil

Apparently the gangs just tried to use reddit to crowdsource their kidnapping attempts but you shut it down fast! If only the PNH was that reactive!

I was watching a spaceship launch from Florida this morning. It was Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, launching their New Glenn rocket to deliver satellites into space. The booster—the reusable half of the rocket—landed back on Earth about 7 minutes after liftoff. It’s insane how much money these private space companies bring into the US economy just because they have such a massive dominance over high-tech reusability.

About two minutes after liftoff, the booster separated and began its journey back. It dropped through the sky at thousands of miles per hour, used its air brakes to stay steady, and then fired its engines one last time to slow down for a perfect landing back on Earth just seven minutes after it started.

LAUNCH VIDEO:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXT8ceZDRdK/
BOOSTER RETURN:

https://www.instagram.com/nasaspaceflight_ig/reel/DXT95bVjeSX/

It got me thinking: every country has an "unfair advantage" they use to build wealth. Since we aren’t launching rockets (yet), what is Haiti’s actual competitive edge in the global market? Or what could it be?

As Haitians we have to come to terms with the fact that no one is coming to save us.

The only way is forward and to do that there’s got to be clarity in what Haiti lacks and what we need to advocate for.

We have fragments of institutions, we lack institutional legitimacy, security environment, social trust, informal economy integration.

We desperately need, administrative reinforcements across all 146 communes, mandatory civic services (public schools, clinics, markets), agricultural revitalization (selective to be competitive with the broader markets but also to ensure sovereignty over food supply), we need bureaucratic standardization, infrastructure first state building & vertical industrial development.

We also need to shift our tax burden away from customs revenue, it taxes trade rather than productivity, encourages smuggling, creates rent-seeking incentives & port capture while also limiting domestic fiscal sovereignty, moving towards a broader domestic tax base & reduced reliance on import duties, this is one of the first, key and biggest wins we could have.

All of this would be subject once again to building up our army as well as our national police as institutions themselves, we need the necessary enforcement capacity but also the credibility layer that makes taxation and compliance overall possible.

Feel free to discuss in the comments, let me know what you think

Le commandement sud des États‑Unis a annoncé le 19 avril 2026 une frappe contre un bateau accusé de transporter de la drogue en mer des Caraïbes, tuant trois personnes. Cette opération s’inscrit dans la campagne lancée par l’administration Trump depuis septembre visant les navires de narcotrafic en Amérique latine.

Au moins 54 embarcations ont été ciblées et 181 personnes tuées selon les bilans communiqués. Les frappes se poursuivent malgré la guerre en Iran, illustrant la stratégie américaine contre le « narcoterrorisme ». L’armée n’a pas fourni de preuves que les bateaux transportaient effectivement des stupéfiants, selon CBS News

Les attaques interviennent dans un contexte de forte présence militaire américaine dans la région. En janvier, l’ex‑président vénézuélien Nicolás Maduro a été capturé et transféré à New York pour répondre à des accusations de trafic de drogue. La légalité de ces frappes est contestée par plusieurs observateurs.