Haiti declared independence in 1804 but was obliged in 1825 to pay France "compensation" for lost property — including enslaved people. The Haitian independence debt, amounting to 150 million francs to be paid in five annual payments of 30 million each ...

President Macron, control yourself. In an off the cuff remark made on Thursday during the course of a visit to Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Macron called the Haitians who “fired” their prime minister “complete morons” for doing so. He spoke in response to a question from a passerby about the volatile state of affairs in the troubled Caribbean nation.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting several South American nations during his attendance at this week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is castigating members of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council for ousting the country’s second prime minister,

Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron in a video at the G20 summit in Brazil, in which he called the Haitian transitional council "total morons" for firing former Prime Minister Garry Conille,