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Cité Soleil ( French pronunciation: [site sɔlɛj]; Haitian Creole: Site Solèy; English: Sun City) is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom ...
In 2004, UN peacekeepers entered Cité Soleil in an attempt to gain control of the area and end the anarchy. and they killed Billy "2Pac" who played in Ghost of Cite Soleil. U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince in March 2004. The President of Guatemala also sent a small police delegation attached to TOMINUSHTA as translators
Cité Soleil in 2006. Squatting in Haiti is the occupation of unused land or abandoned buildings without the permission of the owner. Following the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), squatters acquired smallholdings across the country. [1] As the capital Port-au-Prince grew, so did the informal settlements ringing it.
1 UN soldier, 10 HNP policemen. 4 civilians. The Cité Soleil raid of 2007 began on February 10, 2007, in the Cité Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti. It was intended to crack down on a notorious gang leader called "Evans". The raid was part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. [1]
The commune harbors many low-income slums plagued with poverty and violence in which the most notorious, Cité Soleil, is situated. However, Cité Soleil has been recently split off from Port-au-Prince proper to form a separate commune. The Champ de Mars area has begun some modern infrastructure development as of recently. The downtown area is ...
Emmanuel Wilmer (known popularly as Dread Wilme) was a Haitian criminal, rebel, and anarchist killed in a United Nations armed assault on Cité Soleil that killed dozens of people. The assault was led by Brazilian general Augusto Heleno [1] and was carried out by COMANF on July 6, 2005. Cité Soleil, the location where the assault occurred, was ...
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean [2] ( / ˈwaɪklɛf ˈʒɒ̃ / WHY-clef; born October 17, 1969) [2] [3] is a Haitian rapper and record producer. At the age of nine, [4] Jean and his family emigrated to Northeastern United States. He formed the New Jersey-based hip hop trio Fugees in 1990 with fellow musicians Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, for which Jean ...
Cirque du Soleil ( French: [siʁk dy sɔlɛj], Quebec French: [sɪʁk d͡zy sɔlɛj]; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. [7] Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street ...