Carrefour:
Carrefour is a largely residential very poor district in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The district has an estimated population of 408,000. It is mostly a bedroom community for those who work in central Port-au-Prince. The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced, however, as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations.
Carrefour was not always a poor district outside of downtown Port-au-Prince. Before the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier and before all the political unrest that has swallowed the country, it was a haven for tourists. Carrefour and the country as a whole was dealt a death blow when the last embargo was imposed on it by the United States to enforce the return of than deposed President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
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