Chile

Port-de-Paix Haiti - A young Haitian who recently returned form Chile committed suicide Tuesday December 18, less than a week before Christmas.

A third planeload of Haitian immigrants who are voluntarily returning to Haiti arrived in Haiti Monday. 179 Haitians left Chile and returned to Port-au-Prince via a special Chilean government flight.

A second planeload of Haitian immigrants is has returned from Chile back to Haiti in a Chilean Air Force plane on Monday. A total of 181 Haitians were on that flight according to news report.

Human traffickers are using Bolivia as an illegal crossing of illegal Haitians from Chile to Brazil. last weekend, more than 100 Haitian immigrants were detained in Oruro and Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Over one hundred thousand Haitians left Haiti to go to Chile hoping it would be their land of opportunity only to be disappointed at what they discovered. Many of these Haitians want to go back home but the money for the trip back is not easy to come by.

Many Haitians in Chile are complaining about their difficulty to get a "certificat de bonne vie et moeurs," (certificate a good conduct) from the Haitian consulate, an important document they need to get their residency papers.

Chile's newly elected president, Sebastián Piñera announced on Monday a new immigration reform prohibiting Haitian and foreign immigrants from working in the country. Starting April 16th, all Haitians who want to go to Chile must apply for a tourist visa that will only allow you to stay in Chile for a maximum of 30 days...

The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet‏, writes on her Twitter page: "Today I met Richard Joseph, the Haitian citizen who saved a person on Sunday."

His name is Richard Joseph and his is a Haitian Hero in Chile... Richard Joseph saved a woman's life who fell from a ninth-floor balcony in a suicide attempt

Confusion, lack of money, Joane Florvil is still in the morgue in Chile nearly a month after her death. Her family wants to repatriate her body for a "National Funeral" in Haiti but they don't have a dime, according to a Chile newspaper.