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Haitians making charcoal  
   

Haitians making charcoal

This is going on throughout the country, as the Haitians are cutting down the vital rain forests and producing charcoal with it. Every where you go you can smell the charcoal fires burning from up in the mountains. Local say this has been for some twenty five years now that this is going on, no petrol to cook so they sadly have no choice but to keep cutting down the forests to make charcoal. Since the embargo many years ago the country is such disrepair.
Montrouis to Baradaires Haiti

December 19th 2006
December 19th 2006 Internet service is scarce in the Providences so we can only update our blog when we are in Port au Prince. As for us, we are safe and well, life has been on the adaptation side, with learning to ingest all that takes place here with the poor, United Nations presence, decrypting the Creole language, the shear amount of people everywhere and every day life. Haiti is a unique ... read more
Central America Caribbean » Haiti

Haitian Flag The native Arawak Amerindians - who inhabited the island of Hispaniola when it was discovered by Columbus in 1492 - were virtually annihilated by Spanish settlers within 25 years. In the early 17th century, the French established a presence on Hispan... ... read more
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