Due to the United States occupation of Haiti, many Haitians left to find work as laborers in neighboring countries like Cuba.
Cuban racists beliefs combined with economic concerns were a direct catalyst for this drastic Haitian exodus.
[3] Cubans feared a repeat of the Haitian Revolution, which was not quelled by the current guerrilla warfare in Haiti by the caco forces against the Americans.
[7] Haitians lived in small communities near the sugar cane plantations, very rural and removed from populous cities.
[9] Haitians have continued to come to Cuba to work as braceros (hand workers, from the Spanish word brazo, meaning "arm") in the fields cutting cane.