A painful anniversary puts renewed focus on Haiti's demands for reparations from France

The World

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As Haiti celebrates 200 years of independence from France, Thursday marks a particularly fraught anniversary. On April 17, 1825, Haiti and France signed the Indemnity Agreement, requiring Haiti to pay France to compensate slave-owning colonists for Haitians' freedom. Now, Haitian activists want their money back. Also, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is headed to Paris to discuss the war in Ukraine. And, Canada's new professional women's soccer league just kicked off its first season.

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0:41.3	The San Eidro Port of Entry, the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere.
0:49.3	Most of what is manufactured in Mexico comes through this border.
0:53.2	I'm Marco Wormann.
0:54.5	And I'm Carolyn Beeler.
0:55.8	Today, what's made on the Mexican side of that border.
0:59.3	Also, the prospects were ending Russia's war in Ukraine through diplomacy.
1:03.9	Time is on the Russian side.
1:06.3	Anyone who thinks that these negotiations are going to be quick, I think is living in a fantasy land.
1:12.0	Plus, France acknowledges the harm done to Haiti in the past. Just one problem.
1:16.8	It is 200 years late. And last night in Canada,
1:23.2	team on three, one, two, three, two, three, team! The country's first pro-women soccer league kicked off its inaugural season.
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