The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie
8/14/2025
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Storyline
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.
- Director:
- Writers:
- 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
