{"value"=>"<p>This series contains reports originating from regional military outposts, districts, or sub-districts. Although Haiti is divided into nine administrative departments (Artibonite, Central, Grand'Anse, North, Northeast, Northwest, South, Southeast, and West [Ouest]), this series has consolidated the regional departments into two basic geographical classifications: Northern Military Districts (includes the departments of North, Northwest, and Northeast departments) and Southern Military Districts (includes the departments of Grand'Anse, South, Southeast, and, West). The Artibonite Department and Central Department folders were left out of this basic classification of files because of their geographic ambiguities: the Central Department is specifically located in the eastern central zone of the country and Artibonite is located in the western central zone. Moreover, the Artibonite Department folder encompasses valuable reports related to popular protests and food riots in the region that could have been forerunners to the dechoukaj in 1986. Also an exception to the series' organizational scheme is a folder titled Croix-des-Bouquets (in the department of West) which holds scores of reports related to a state-sponsored program in that region which provided sugar-cane workers to the sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. In general, this series documents security activities, ceremonies throughout the country, popular protests. and some investigative reports.</p>"}