Haitians

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GANG
Haitians
File:Haitian gang (GTAVC).jpg
Haitian gang members in Little Haiti, Vice City.
Games: GTA Vice City
Locations: Little Haiti, Vice City
Leader: Auntie Poulet
Type: Street Gang
Enemies: Cubans/Los Cabrones; Diaz's Gang; Vercetti Gang
Affiliations: Sharks; Tommy Vercetti
Colors: Blue
Vehicles: Voodoo
Sanchez
Weapons: Pistol
Businesses: Drugs and weapons trading
Fronts: Haitian Drug Factory

The Haitians are a street gang and cartel from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. They are the main rivals of the Cubans/Los Cabrones, and they vie for control of the poorer neighbourhoods of Vice City (Little Haiti and Little Havana).

Auntie Poulet, the leader, gives Tommy Vercetti mind-altering drugs to make him use less-than-honest tactics in their war against the Cubans. Vercetti spurred by his friendship with the Cubans, massacres members of the Haitian gang and completely destroys their large drug manufacturing plant (killing many more members in the process), thereby severing all ties with Poulet and the gang. After this, the Haitians become openly hostile to Vercetti and later his gang members. The Haitians do not appear in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, meaning they became active in the city sometime between 1984 and 1986.

Haitian gang members are seen wearing either blue shirts (reading RELAX), white pants and baseball caps, or sky blue sleeveless shirts, jeans and blue bandanas.

The Haitians are likely to attack you whenever you are in their territory (Little Haiti). The gang will appear with baseball bats, pistols, or sometimes just fighting with their fists.

Haitian-American discrimination controversy

The third version of GTA Vice City had all references to the Haitian people removed, (along with a number of other trademarks), in response to Cuban and Haitian groups in the United States, who threatened to use action against Rockstar Games, on the basis that they were being discriminated against. A Haitian organization in the US against racial opression was highly offended by the comments used in the game, such as when Vercetti is ordered to "shoot the Haitian d*ckheads". Because of this, the word 'Haitian' was taken out of the game's subtitles and they were simply refered to as 'Gangsters'.

Notes

  • In The Well Stacked Pizza Co. branch in Little Haiti, there is a Haitian gang member that spawns in the kitchen facing the cooker as if he's helping out. Perhaps community service or an alloted job from the Vice City Police Department, or simply just a pedestrian model. This individual gangster is not hostile to you in any way even after the collapse of the Haitians factory.
  • The baseball cap wearing variant of the Haitian gang member featured an ironed-on depiction of the infamous "I Want YOU for the U.S. Army" poster on his shirt during development of GTA Vice City [1] before the game's developer settled on using a plain white "RELAX" text instead.
  • The gang doesn't really have an official name, thus it is referred to by its ethnicity.