The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss
(2025)
August 14, 2025
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Documentary, History, TV Movie
• 58m
Overview
In the 1980s, a swine flu crossed the Haitian-Dominican border and started to affect the Creole pig, an important commodity in Haiti. The flu also threatened livestock in the United States. As a preemptive measure, the USAID in conjunction with the Haitian government proceeded to exterminate all Creole pigs from the island, leading to a crushing economic blow for an already impoverished country.
Keywords
politics
haiti
economy
extinction
1980s
livestock
pigs
rural
endemic disease
intervention in a foreign country
haitian community
resource based economy
farmers
swine flu
haitian-dominican border
haitian government
haitian united states relations
african swine flu
u.s. department of agriculture
us intervention
economic depression
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Original Language
EN
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