Carrefour, Haiti
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Carrefour is a poor district in the Ouest Department of Port-au-Prince, Haïti. It's population is 408,000. The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced however as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations. A slum called Feuilles of Carrefour is notorious for the illegal execution of eleven young men that took place there in 1999. [1]
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Carrefour was not always a poor district outside of downtown Port-au-Prince. Before the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier and before all the polical unrest that has swallowed the country, it was a haven for tourists from all over the world. In fact Haiti was known as the Pearl of the Caribbean.
Carrefour and the country as a whole was dealt a death blow when the last embargo was imposed on it by the United Sates to enforce the return of than deposed President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Since that time, the U.S. has seen two two-term presidents and the embargo remains.
