The Creole Pig: Haiti's Great Loss
2025-08-14 en 58m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
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
Dudley Alexis
Producer
Imani L. Warren
Producer
Dudley Alexis
Executive Producer
John LaBonia
Executive Producer
Adrienne Kennedy
Editor
Dudley Alexis
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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Companies
- PBS
- WLRN-TV
