2010 · Caribbeanyear only

A new constitution writes the refusals into the basic law

Rather than answer the human rights complaints, the state changed the founding document.

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2010 · Haitianyear only

Where the relief dollar went after the earthquake

Three per cent to the elected government, sixty four per cent to eleven thousand organisations.

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2010 · Haitianyear only

Children are taken out of Haiti in the weeks after the quake

Laura Silsby said the Lord had sent her. Haitian authorities arrested her for trafficking.

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12 January 2010 · Haitian

An earthquake kills fourteen members of Haiti's only LGBT group

Seven died when the SEROvie building fell and the director pulled them out himself.

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12 January 2010 · Haitian

The earthquake kills between two and three hundred thousand people

The count was never settled, which is itself a fact about the state that was counting.

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12 January 2010 · Haitian

At 4:53 in the afternoon the National Palace comes down

The Haitian state and the mission supervising it fell in the same thirty-five seconds.

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12 January 2010 · Haitian

4:53 p.m.

Magnitude 7.0, epicenter at Léogâne, up to 300,000 dead.

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12 January 2010 · Haitian

A minute of shaking kills at least one person in thirty

A shallow magnitude 7.0 quake just before five in the afternoon.

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January 2010 · Haitianmonth known

Cuban doctors arrive first and are reported as Spanish

American networks declined to correct the description after being told what it was.

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January 2010 · Haitianmonth known

The quake fell hardest on the Haitians who could afford good materials

Cite Soleil, built of flimsier stuff, lost far less than Petionville.

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17 January 2010 · Haitian

A baby is found alive after five days, still inside her babysitter's arms

Marie Ange curled around Jenny as the floor gave way and died holding her.

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February 2010 · Haitianmonth known

Carnival is cancelled for the first time in the country's history

Two billion dollars had been pledged and the latrines were still not dug.

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2010 · Haitianyear only

Half the homeless walk out of the capital and back to the villages

Thomonde ended the year holding 25,000 more people than it held in January.

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2010 · Haitianyear only

Fatton says the outside world, not Haitian voters, chose Martelly

Two insiders later described the presidential ballot as doctored to produce the required winner.

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22 October 2010 · Haitian

The peacekeepers bring in a disease Haiti had never had

Sewage from a UN camp entered the river that waters the rice country and the towns along it.

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October and November 2010 · Haitianmonth known

The fort that shelled the French now belongs to Ogou Feray

At Picolet in 2010 the author found blue paint, wax and a peristyle among the colonial masonry.

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28 November 2010 · Haitian

A disputed count is argued out in Creole

Every Haitian faction used the national language, and only the foreign statements did not.

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8 December 2010 · Haitian

The American ambassador tells Washington that Celestin should withdraw

Twelve hours after the first round results, the runoff was being rearranged by email.

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2011 to 2016 · Diasporaspan

One of fifteen world history textbooks still omits the revolution

Johnson's own survey finds coverage growing, and the authorship badly skewed.

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2011 · Datasetyear only

Tested blocks come in at a fifth of the minimum acceptable strength

More cement and better aggregate would have doubled it.

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16 January 2011 · Haitian

Jean-Claude Duvalier flies home and goes back to his hotel

Charged with corruption within days, detained for none of it, dead with the case open.

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16 January 2011 · Haitian

Jean-Claude Duvalier walks back into Haiti after twenty five years

Duvalierists met him at the airport and the first complaints were filed within three days.

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April to September 2011 · Haitianspan

A childhood friend of the president collects USAID money without bidding

Nine million dollars for a shelter site, awarded with no competition and no mention of the friendship.

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14 May 2011 · Haitian

A compas singer takes the presidency of a ruined country

Martelly finished third at the polls and won the runoff after the second placed candidate was struck off.

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March and April 2012 · Haitianspan

Architects warn that the Caracol houses sit in a floodplain

The review asked for a full redesign and the contracts went out the following month unchanged.

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2012 · Haitianyear only

A fishing coast becomes an industrial park for garment work

Caracol had been named Haiti's first marine protected area shortly before the plans for it changed.

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July 2012 · Diasporamonth known

Trouillot dies, leaving the archive itself under suspicion

He argued that the Haitian Revolution was unthinkable to the men who were obliged to report it.

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October 2012 · Haitianmonth known

The housing plan moves six hours north to serve a garment factory

Shelter for the homeless of the capital became worker accommodation beside an industrial park.

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2013 to 2014 · Indigenousspan

Three pottery styles turn out to be one set of neighbours

Digging at El Flaco found wares assigned to three separate peoples sitting in the same deposits.

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2013 · Diasporayear only

Seven hundred offices carry two hundred million dollars home

A quarter of a million people a year send money through one Haitian firm.

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2013 · Diasporayear only

Mobile banking crosses the border into Haiti

A credit union federation and a New York bank put remittances on the telephone.

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2013 · Caribbeanyear only

A court cancels the citizenship of a woman born in 1984

Juliana Deguis Pierre asked for an identity card and lost her birth certificate instead.

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summer 2013 · Haitianseason

A goat programme is measured for the first time and the herds are tiny

A quarter of the donated does never kid, and thirty seven per cent of the kids die.

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2014 · Caribbeanyear only

A naturalisation law asks people to declare themselves foreign

Fifty five thousand were promised their nationality back and about half received it.

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16 January 2014 · Haitian

Twenty people become enough to found a political party

A decree written as the dictatorship fell had asked for five thousand.

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February 2014 · Haitianmonth known

An appeal court rules that crimes against humanity belong to Haitian law

The judge below had sent Duvalier to a correctional court for embezzlement only.

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4 October 2014 · Haitian

Duvalier dies and the state offers him a national funeral

Michel Martelly called him an authentic son of Haiti and then had to back down.

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2016 · Diasporayear only

Haitians abroad hold no rights in the country they send money to

Italy and France seat their emigrants in parliament; Haiti seats none.

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August to December 2016 · Haitianspan

The United Nations apologises for the cholera it brought to Haiti

Six years of denial ended with an apology and a legal position that did not move.

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7 November 2016 · Haitian

Dubois argues the written record is why the revolution is underrated

An essay says European sources and European methods have set the terms of the field.

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2017 · Africanyear only

Genomics confirms that race is not a genomic classifier

Baker, Rotimi and Shriner, in Scientific Reports: ancestry tracks language, not race.

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January 2017 to January 2018 · Haitianspan

Farmers pushed off the Caracol land file a complaint with the bank

Hundreds of families went around their own government and appealed to the park's funder.

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2017 · Africanyear only

A genome study finds ancestry sorted by language

Baker, Rotimi and Shriner tested race as a classifier of human genetic variation and it failed.

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July 2018 · Haitianmonth known

Fuel prices rise during a World Cup match and the capital burns

The government timed the announcement for Brazil against Belgium and lost the city in an hour.

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