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A team of experts from UNESCO will examine a site off northern Haiti that an explorer believes may be the wreckage of the Santa Maria, the U.N. cultural agency said Monday.

Also read: Shipwreck found off Haiti Coast may be Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria

UNESCO officials said the technical team will explore the site in the coming months at the request of the government of Haiti, which is seeking assistance to preserve the possible wreckage of Christopher Columbus' flagship vessel.

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Do Haitians remember this story? --- 20,000 American troops landed in Haiti on 19 September,1994, to reinstate of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti... Aristide was overthrown 3 years earlier in a Military coup d'Etat. 20 Years later, how is Haiti doing?

Also read: Haiti - Operation Uphold Democracy - Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti

Friday 19 September 2014 marked 20 years since this operation Uphold Democracy took place... do you think democracy has been upheld in Haiti?

Reply with your comments...

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Going on a Caribbean cruise soon? I have some good news from Haiti - The Citadelle is about to be added to your Caribbean Cruise Experience... Yep! Soon you will be able to leave Labadee and visit the Citadelle, a huge fort in Haiti, it is actually the largest fort in all of the Americas and sits on top of a 3,000 foot mountain outside Cap-Haitien...

You can see the entire world standing on top of the Citadelle in Haiti... LOL...

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Marchand-Dessalines is a town in the Artibonite Department of Haiti. It is named after Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of independent Haiti....

Dessalines is known as the First Black Capital of the New World.

In 1804 the town of Marchand was made capital of the newly independent state of Haiti. It was shortly after renamed Dessalines, or Marchand-Dessalines, in honor of the first Haitian head of state. The Imperial constitution of May 20th 1805 was proclaimed from the town Dessalines. After the emperor's assassination in October 1806 Port-au-Prince was became the new capital of Haiti.

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"There is nobody watching the ship right now... somebody knows where we are," says underwater explorer Barry Clifford who fears that Christopher Columbus' 500-year-old flagship, La Santa Maria, found off the coast ot Haiti may be in danger of looting unless it is salgaved immediately...

Clifford told The Explorers Club wednesday:

"I think this is an emergency situation. I think the ship needs to be excavated as quickly as possible, conserved and displayed to the world... I'm ready to leave next week if I get the green light..."

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An underwater explorer claims the sunken shipwreck he found off Haiti is in fact the long lost remains of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas... This could be the biggest find in shipwreck history...

The underwater explorer Barry Clifford CNN late Monday that he found the ship in the exact area where Columbus says the Santa Maria ran aground more than 500 years ago. The wreck is stuck on a reef off Haiti's northern coast, 10 to 15 feet beneath the water's surface.

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Do you know what they do to lab rats? I just finished reading The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake and the only thing that came to my mind was: "Man... Haiti is the lab rat of the developed world."

You should read i. The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake, the transcript of a lengthy interview with Jonathan M. Katz, former AP correspondent in Port-au-Prince... Anpil pawol nan interview sa-a...

Something that caught my attention... Do you share this sentiment?

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Did you know? The Oldest Catholic cathedral in America, not just the United States, the entire continent, is in Hinche, Plateau Central, Haiti... This old Cathedral in Hinche was built in 1503 by Nicolas de Ovando...

People in Hinche refer to it as "ansyen catedral la" (The old cathedral) simply because a New cathedral was constructed in the city.

This old church in still in service, It has been restored to it's original look and it serves as one of the historical monuments you must visit on your next trip to Haiti.

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IN the blockbuster film Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's role could have easily been played by a Black man and it would have been historically accurate. In fact, the life story of Haitian native Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche is far more intriguing than the movie's lead character, but no one knew of his existence until recently.

The silence about the stranger-than-fiction life story of the Titanic's only Black passenger astonishes noted Titanic historian Judith Geller, author of Titanic: Women and Children First, who said,

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Did you know? 7 April in Haiti is the anniversary death of the Toussaint Louverture, The Black Napoleon, leader of the Haitian Revolution. Toussaint Louverture died in the jail in Fort-de-Joux in France on 7 April, 1803...

After his arrest, Toussaint Louverture spoke these famous words... a warning to his captors:

"En me renversant on a abattu à Saint-Domingue que le tronc de l'arbre de la liberté des Noirs, il repoussera par les racines car elles sont profondes et nombreuses."

TRANSLATION: In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.

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