2000s to 2010s · Africanspan

Six of the ten fastest growing economies are African and the poverty holds

Growth of 5.7 percent a year, and access to capital still decided by which family you were born into.

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2000s · Africandecade

The word prehistory decides in advance whose past counts

The line falls where writing begins, and it puts most of Africa on the wrong side of it.

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2000 to 2005 · Diasporaspan

Haitian youth in Boston clinics stop after one session

A review of 252 charts found treatment ending before it had properly begun.

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2000 to 2005 · Diasporaspan

Haitian children in Boston had been apart from a parent for years

Clinicians logged separations averaging nearly four years, double what other groups showed.

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January to July 2000 · Diasporaspan

A group founded on a message board lasts a single year

The Coalition of Haitians for the Advancement of Haiti met in Tampa and was gone by the summer.

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3 April 2000 · Haitian

Jean Dominique is shot dead on his way in to work

The man who first broadcast the news in Kreyol, killed in his own station yard.

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21 May 2000 · Haitian

The count stops at four names and Lavalas takes the senate

Discarding more than a million ballots turned a certain victory into a disputed one.

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June 2000 · Haitianmonth known

The head of the electoral council flees after a palace summons

Leon Manus said he was told the cities would burn, and left for the Dominican Republic.

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2000 · Diasporayear only

Buck-Morss argues every reading European knew about Haiti2 sources

News was censored in France after 1803 but ran in Britain, the United States and Poland.

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around 2000 · Haitianapproximate

Sixty five percent of Haitians live below the poverty line

In the countryside it is 81 percent, and one child in eight dies before turning five.

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26 November 2000 · Haitian

Aristide takes ninety-two percent of a vote nobody contested

A boycott produces figures that look like unanimity and prove nothing about consent.

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2001 to 2012 · Haitianspan

Children born in Haitian cities under autocracy grow up shorter

The height gap runs at about 0.14 to 0.18 standard deviations, comparable to the gap between boys and girls.

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2001 to 2010 · Indigenousspan

Stone tools settle what pottery could not about Huecoid identity

Fashion moves in ceramics. Knapping technique is taught hand to hand and travels badly.

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2001 · Haitianyear only

Haiti as a piece of West Africa run aground in the Antilles

Latin America inherited Iberia. Haiti inherited the Slave Coast and the Jacobins.

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2001 · Datasetyear only

A historian puts a number on the disputed participation

Less than a fraction of one percent of twelve million people, by Drescher's estimate.

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17 December 2001 · Haitian

Thirty men in pickup trucks storm the national palace

Aristide was at home in Tabarre, and by evening the opposition headquarters had burned.

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2002 · Haitianyear only

A documentary lets Haitian masisi describe serving Ezili

Of Men and Gods screened in twelve countries and took a prize in New York the year after.

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2003 to 2013 · Indigenousspan

The Taino chiefdom is a filing system and the islands do not fit it

Curet and Torres show a label invented for sorting sites had begun describing them instead.

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2003 · Diasporayear only

Nobody can count how many Haitians are online

One estimate put thirty thousand users inside Haiti, another put a hundred thousand.

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3 April 2003 · Haitian

The state recognises the religion that organised the revolution

Two centuries of constitutions had called Haiti Catholic and meant it legally.

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April 2003 · Diasporamonth known

Ashcroft rules that a Haitian asylum seeker stays locked up

David Joseph had won bail from a panel of judges. The attorney general took it back.

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2004 · Caribbeanyear only

A migration law makes cane workers people in transit

Two words in the Dominican constitution were redefined and a population lost its papers.

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2004 · Haitianyear only

Bel Air is declared a red zone and the aid stops coming

The label kept relief organisations out without armed escort for years afterwards.

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January 2004 · Caribbeanmonth known

Aristide tells CARICOM in Kingston that the opposition is weak

He accepted confidence-building measures a month before he lost the presidency.

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February 2004 · Haitianmonth known

Powell telephones a Haitian businessman to restrain the rebels

The same network that financed 1991 was found behind the second removal of Aristide.

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February 2004 · Haitianmonth known

Aristide leaves accusing Washington of carrying him away

A second presidency ends with foreign troops arriving and the president on a plane out.

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29 February 2004 · Haitian

Aristide leaves on an American plane for the second time

In 1991 the army removed him. In 2004 there was no army left to do it.

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29 February 2004 · Haitian

The rebels take Gonaives in the year of the bicentenary

Independence was declared in that town two hundred years and one month earlier.

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29 February 2004 · Caribbean

CARICOM suspends Haiti weeks after Aristide is removed

The regional body punished Port-au-Prince at the moment Haiti most needed it.

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April 2004 · Haitianmonth known

Income tax on large importers is suspended for three years

The interim government also cut the rice tariff, and food prices rose about four hundred percent.

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September 2004 · Haitianmonth known

Jeanne drowns Gonaives seven months after the rising began there

The storm never made landfall on Haiti and still killed thousands in one town.

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2005 · Haitianyear only

A national federation claims to speak for Haitian Vodou

Max Beauvoir set the body up in 2005 and took the title Ati Nasyonal for himself.

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6 July 2005 · Haitian

A decree writes sexual assault into Haitian criminal law

Adultery stopped being a crime and a jealous husband stopped having an excuse for murder.

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2006 · Diasporayear only

Evelyne Trouillot opens a lecture in Lima with three sentences

I am a woman, I am black, and I am Haitian, said before an audience of about two hundred and fifty.

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14 May 2006 · Haitian

Preval becomes the only Haitian to finish two presidential terms

Nine thousand foreign soldiers supplied the security an abolished army no longer could.

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2007 · Diasporayear only

Ten Haitian candidates run for one Brooklyn council seat

A community large enough to win the district and split enough to lose it.

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2007 · Caribbeanyear only

A pink register divides children born in the same hospital

A document that is not citizenship, and a circular that took citizenship back.

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2008 · Haitianyear only

A school falls on a hillside and four storms kill eight hundred

Haiti was losing people to ordinary weather and ordinary buildings well before the ground moved.

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2009 · Datasetyear only

Philip Curtin dies, having taught the field how to count

Before him the numbers circulated by repetition. After him they came with a method attached.

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2009 · Indigenousyear only

A ring of middens around a plaza can be a sequence in disguise

Keegan asks whether the circle was ever occupied all at once, or built by moving house.

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2009 · Haitianyear only

Congress doubles the industrial wage and garment workers are exempted

Apparel plants pay one hundred and twenty five gourdes where the law said two hundred.

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19 to 21 February 2009 · Haitianspan

A document from Paris to Istanbul turns out to name Louverture

A Middle East historian finds the Saint-Domingue expedition discussed in Ottoman archives.

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2009 · Haitianyear only

Geggus argues Vodou and marronage did little for the revolution

A bicentennial volume denies large revolts before 1791 and downgrades indigenous religion.

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December 2009 to January 2010 · Haitianspan

A play about an earthquake is written weeks before the earthquake

The newspaper named 2010 the year of Franketyen on the morning the ground moved.

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