Sometimes it seems that Haiti is a black-hole where joy and hope goes to die.
However, that isn't true today.
Last week the workers of Haiti went out on strike for higher wages, and today they won.

Haiti's government on Monday hiked the minimum wage by as much as 54%, following weeks of demonstrations by garment workers who say their wages are not enough to keep up with the rising cost of living...
A group of US members of Congress in November said they were asking the heads of 62 American companies that import garments from Haiti for information on "protections in place for workers employed by their companies and suppliers."

This modest victory for the working poor of Haiti, is a defeat for Hillary Clinton. Why Hillary? Because she was personally responsible for the minimum wage of Haiti being so low for so long.

Hillary seems to have a different take on drastic wage hikes. When she was running the show, the State Department helped block Haiti's efforts to increase its minimum wage from 27 cents to 61 cents per hour. Why? According to U.S. Embassy cables obtained by WikiLeaks and analyzed by PolitiFact:

back in 2008 and 2009, embassy officials repeatedly told Washington that a hike would hurt the economy and undermine U.S. trade preference legislation known as HOPE.

The program, shorthand for the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006, gives garments manufactured on the island duty free access to U.S. markets.

The Clintons have been heavily involved in Haiti since the 90's, when they pushed through sweeping changes to Haiti’s agricultural sector, that opened up their country to U.S.-subsidized rice into Haiti. This bankrupted Haiti's small farmers, thus making this tiny nation dependent on imported food.

Only years later would Bill Clinton acknowledge how this policy had failed Haitians.“The United States has followed a policy … that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era,” he told Congress in 2010. “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked … I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people.” By the time the earthquake struck, in 2010, a nation that in the 70s grew enough rice to feed itself was now importing 80% of it from abroad.

In other Haiti news, the Dominican Republic is building a wall to keep Haitians out. As someone who once lived in the D.R. near the border, guess who will be doing the actual building of that wall? It won't be Dominicans.
One last piece of Haitian news involves the assassination of President Moïse.

Investigators and a judge allege that Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry was involved in the July assassination of the country’s former president, Jovenel Moïse...
Haitian authorities said former Haitian anti-corruption official Joseph Felix Badio was in charge of the group of more than two dozen men that carried out the shooting, according to CNN.
Investigators were tipped off that Badio, who was by then on the run, was set to meet with Henry in September, according to CNN.

By that time, the two men had already met twice in person since Moïse's death, and investigators had suspected for weeks that Henry was involved in the assassination, according to investigators, per the network. Believing the upcoming meeting would help connect the prime minister to the crime, investigators planned to arrest both men following the event.
But word of the planned raid leaked, investigators told CNN, and the meeting ultimately did not take place.

"Henry is at the center of everything," an investigator said to CNN. "All he has done since taking over as PM is obstruct (the investigation) and f**k us over."

Multiple law enforcement sources, who were not identified for security reasons, told the network that Henry was allegedly involved in both planning the assassination and covering it up.
Judge Garry Orélien, who was overseeing the case until recently, made similar accusations in a recording from the fall of 2021.

This is a rare piece of actual journalism by CNN. They have an audio by Judge Garry Orélien, the former judge in the assassination case, in which he says: "Ariel (Henry) is connected and friends with the mastermind of the assassination. They planned it with him. Ariel is a prime suspect of Jovenel Moïse's assassination, and he knows it."

So the sitting president had the former president murdered.
That's some real Game Of Thrones sh*t there.