Haiti – Jean-Claude Duvalier Airport 1971 IC Proof Silver 25 Gourdes 60mm (117.60 grams) 0.999 Silver (3.7771 oz. ASW) Reference: KM# 88 Certification: NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO 2103985-004 REPUBLIQUE D’HAITI AEROPORT INTERNATIONAL FRANÇOIS DUVALIER. VUE DE L’AEROGARE, Airplane flying over airport. LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE 1000 IC 25 GOURDES 1970, Coat-of-arms.
You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity.
Toussaint Louverture International Airport (French: Aéroport International Toussaint Louverture) (IATA: PAP, ICAO: MTPP) is an international airport in Tabarre, a commune of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The airport is currently the busiest in Haiti and is an operating hub for Salsa d’Haiti, Tortug’ Air, Sunrise Airways, and Haiti Aviation.
During the 1940s, a military and civil airfield, Bowen Field – the smaller military airport in Chancerelles, not the international airport – was established near Baie de Port-au-Prince providing passenger air service by Compagnie Haitienne de Transports Aériens. In the 1950s and 1960s it served as an airbase for the U.S. military in Haiti. Developed with grant money from the United States Government and mostly money collected from the People of Haiti (taxes, lottery, etc.), the current airport opened as François Duvalier International Airport in 1965, named after then Haitian president François “Papa Doc” Duvalier.
Duvalier’s son and successor Jean-Claude Duvalier resigned in 1986. The airport was renamed Port-au-Prince International Airport. President Jean Bertrand Aristide renamed the airport again as Toussaint Louverture International Airport in 2003, in honour of Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian revolutionary Leader.[citation needed]
The airport was badly damaged by the 2010 Haiti earthquake, see Damage to infrastructure in the 2010 Haiti earthquake#Toussaint Louverture International Airport. On 25 November 2012, President Michel Joseph Martelly opened the newly repaired arrivals terminal.
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti (French: République d’Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik Ayiti) and formerly called Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola, east of Cuba in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi) in size and has an estimated 10.8 million people, making it the most populous country in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the second-most populous country in the Caribbean as a whole. The region was originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno people. Spain landed on the island on 5 December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic. When Columbus initially landed in Haiti, he had thought he had found India or China. On Christmas Day 1492, Columbus’ flagship the Santa Maria ran aground north of what is now Limonade. As a consequence, Columbus ordered his men to salvage what they could from the ship, and he created the first European settlement in the Americas, naming it La Navidad after the day the ship was destroyed.
The island was named La Española and claimed by Spain, which ruled until the early 17th century. Competing claims and settlements by the French led to the western portion of the island being ceded to France, which named it Saint-Domingue. Sugarcane plantations, worked by slaves brought from Africa, were established by colonists.
In the midst of the French Revolution (1789-99), slaves and free people of color revolted in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), culminating in the abolition of slavery and the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army at the Battle of Vertières. Afterward the sovereign state of Haiti was established on 1 January 1804-the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americas, and the only nation in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt. The rebellion that began in 1791 was led by a former slave and the first black general of the French Army, Toussaint Louverture, whose military genius and political acumen transformed an entire society of slaves into an independent country. Upon his death in a prison in France, he was succeeded by his lieutenant, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who declared Haiti’s sovereignty and later became the first Emperor of Haiti, Jacques I. The Haitian Revolution lasted just over a dozen years; and apart from Alexandre Pétion, the first President of the Republic, all the first leaders of government were former slaves. The Citadelle Laferrière is the largest fortress in the Americas. Henri Christophe-former slave and first king of Haiti, Henri I-built it to withstand a possible foreign attack.
It is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Association of Caribbean States, and the International Francophonie Organisation. In addition to CARICOM, it is a member of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. It has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas. Most recently, in February 2004, a coup d’état originating in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A provisional government took control with security provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
|