Emmanuel Macron
Macron admits France ‘subjected’ Haiti to ‘heavy financial indemnity’ when it granted it independence 200 years ago
French President Emmanuel Macron in a statement on April 17 admitted that his home nation erred when they demanded that Haiti pay them 150 million gold francs in order to gain its independence 200 years ago. Per The Associated Press, Macron issued the statement when he was announcing the establishment of a French-Haitian historical commission…