After displacement from Haiti, an exodus from South America and an epic journey through the Americas, what became of Haitians’ American dream? In this final episode of Line in the Land, Dachka, Jean Jeanbaptiste and others explain where they ended up.
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Una Odisea Haitiana E5: 'América'
Después de ser desplazados de Haití, un éxodo hacía Sudamérica y una travesía épica a través de las Américas ¿qué fue del American dream para los haitianos? En este episodio final de La Línea, Dachka, Jeanbaptiste y otros explican donde se encuentran ahora.
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A Haitian Odyssey E4: Haiti
When an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, the international community pledged billions of dollars toward recovery. Much of that aid never went to rebuilding Haiti – or even to the Haitian people. But Haiti’s instability goes back even farther. In fact, it has a great deal to do with outside political forces dating back to the country’s origin story as the world’s first Black republic. That story, in episode four of Line in the Land.
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Una Odisea Haitiana E4: Haiti
Cuando un terremoto masivo devastó Haití en 2010, la comunidad internacional prometió invertir miles de millones de dólares en la recuperación. La mayor parte de esa ayuda no se destinó ni a la reconstrucción de Haití, ni al pueblo haitiano. Pero la inestabilidad de Haití data de siglos; tiene que ver con fuerzas políticas externas que se remontan a la historia de origen del país como la primera república negra del mundo. Esa historia, en el episodio cuatro de La Línea.
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A Haitian Odyssey E3: Colombia
To get to the U.S. border from South America, Haitians must journey on foot through an isolated stretch of jungle called the Darién Gap. This unruly path from northern Colombia to southern Panama is a literal gap in the Pan-American Highway, teeming with venomous animals, armed groups and rushing rivers. In episode three of Line in the Land, Haitian migrants take listeners with them on a forested journey like no other.
When 16,000 Haitians arrived in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021, the humanitarian crisis made international headlines. But the unlikely spectacle at the Texas-Mexico border was just a glimpse of an immigration journey like no other – one that extends more than 10,000 miles, from the rubble of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, through South America… all the way to Del Rio and the Houston suburbs. For the first season of Line in the Land, Texas Public Radio and the Houston Chronicle explore the human story behind this Haitian odyssey, along with the seismic forces at play – immigration policies, U.S.-Haiti relations and the unfulfilled promise to rebuild Haiti. Read more reporting from the Houston Chronicle: Inside the brutal 10,000-mile journey Haitian migrants make in search of a home
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