KATIE' (the district, in Haitian Creole)

n.186 cm.51x61

semi-gloss on canvas

This image takes us back in time, when Haiti, under the French, was the richest colony in the Caribbean Sea.
Called "The Pearl of the Caribbean", from the export of cocoa and sugar, while Santo Domingo, was Spanish, was poor, sparsely populated and almost abandoned.
                      Although nowadays it is hard to believe, Haiti, had times of splendor!
During the French Revolution, the new ideas, on the rights of peoples, spread also in the French colonies and in Haiti there was a revolt of blacks against the French.
Unfortunately, history has shown that even if every people has the right to independence, but this is achieved when the people are not united and prepared to govern, is harming the people themselves.

 Wars or violence, almost always fail, because violence can only generate violence.