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1987-Mar.

1987-Mar.: The new democratic constitution is approved by nearly 99 percent of those who participated in the referendum.

1987-Mar.: The new democratic constitution is approved by nearly 99 percent of those who participated in the referendum. One of its most significant innovations was the granting of official status to the Kréyol language.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 133; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, xxiv