Editing Hispaniola (section)

===20th century to represent: Foreign intervention, dictatorships, aftermath===
In the 20th century, however, both states have endured similar outcomes. With many ensuing conflicts such as [[Banana Wars]] and [[World War I]] taking place, political and economic instabilities continued to ravage as constant power struggles and civil wars engulfed among leaders in both states.  Such actions triggered renewed external interest in launching military interventions on the island. This would finally come with U.S. forces issuing a military occupation of both states, first with Haiti in [[United States occupation of Haiti|1915]], and the Dominican Republic in [[Military Government of Santo Domingo|1916]]. In the following decades after American forces departed from the island, both states would be ruled by heavy handed politicians that had risen to prominence during the American occupation. Haiti's [[François Duvalier]] (Papa Doc) and his son, [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]] (Baby Doc) and Dominican Republic's [[Rafael Trujillo]] would emerge as the leading autocratic rulers at this time. Eventually, the dictatorships of both countries came to a close with the [[assassination]] of Trujillo in 1961, (though political chaos ensued triggering a [[Dominican Civil War|bloody revolution]] and a second U.S intervention in 1965), and the death of François Duvalier and [[Anti-Duvalier protest movement|overthrow]] of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1971 and 1986, respectively. Both states would return to a democratic government, as proven with the elections of [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] in Haiti, and [[Joaquín Balaguer]] in the Dominican Republic. While the Dominican Republic was able to stabilize the political crisis that plagued the country since its conception since 1844, Haiti's political crisis continued to destabilize. The political chaos that erupted following the overthrow of Aristide in 2004 caused a [[United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti|mass intervention by the U.N.]], which lasted until 2017. Even by that point, Haiti had already [[2010 Haiti earthquake|suffered a massive catastrophic earthquake in 2010]], [[2010s Haiti cholera outbreak|cholera outbreaks]] continued, and gang violence had escalated further, [[Gang war in Haiti|which is still ongoing to this day]].  

Haiti would become one of the poorest countries in the Americas, while the Dominican Republic<ref name="natural" /> gradually has developed into one of the largest economies of [[Central America]] and the [[Caribbean]].