Less than weeks before Haiti 's Carnival celebration , revelry replaced with mourning . People have celebrated Carnival through dictatorships , military dictatorship and democracy . `` I do n't think we have time to think of Carnival , '' Lassegue said . ` ` I do n't even know when it is , '' Haiti ' says about the three - day festival .
Less than weeks before Haiti 's Carnival celebration , revelry replaced with mourning . People have celebrated Carnival through dictatorships , military dictatorship and democracy . ` ` I do n't even know when it is , '' Haiti ' says about the three - day festival .