The Split in Fanmi Lavalas: How and Why It Came About, and What It Portends
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte) Last week, for the first time in its history, the Fanmi Lavalas (Lavalas Family) party publicly cast out two of...
View ArticleHaiti Liberte: Drones and Slavery
by Peter Linebaugh (Haiti Liberte)DroneAdventures.org is a Swiss “non-profit” organization that in April 2013 sent two representatives to Haiti to work with a couple “non-profits” called Open Street...
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UN’s Own Independent Experts Now Say MINUSTAH Troops “Most Likely” Caused...
by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)The number of experts casting doubt on the likelihood of the U.N. having been the source of Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic is getting increasingly...
View ArticleOutsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own
Jake JonstonBoston Review, January 16, 2014See article on original websiteAcross the country from Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, miles of decrepit pot-holed streets give way to a smooth roadway...
View ArticleHaiti: Lack of political will allows ex-dictator Duvalier to escape justice
Amnesty InternationalA lack of political will and unacceptable court delays are allowing Haiti’s former “president-for-life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier, to escape justice for human rights violations,...
View ArticleWikileaks Reveals Obama Administration's Role in Stifling Haitian Minimum Wage
American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss prefer to pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes.by Rod Bastanmehr for AlternetStrike another one for Wikileaks. The ever-controversial leaker...
View ArticleThe Jean Dominique Case: Surrounded by Speculation
By Jacques Pierre KoloThe double murder on Apr. 3, 2000 of journalist Jean Dominique and his radio station’s guardian Jean-Claude Louissaint resurfaced in the news this week after Joseph C. Guyler...
View ArticleSentinel: Police find car of missing Martelly Narco-Businessman Associate...
GONAIVES, Haiti (sentinel.ht) - The whereabouts of businessman Daniel Evinx has been unknown since January 5. The vehicle of the close friend of President Michel Martelly, who was arrested in late 2013...
View ArticleFlashpoints Radio Interviews on the new Charges in the Jean Dominique Case
Listen at 36 minutes & 40 seconds to an interview with Aristide's attorney Ira Kurzban on the new charges in the Jean Dominique case: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/99376Also listen to a discussion...
View ArticleNew Charges in Dominique Case are meant to Draw Attention Away from...
HaitiAnalysis Like other cases of political violence in Haiti, it is vital that the killers of Haitian journalist Jean Dominique (murdered in 2000) be brought to justice. Over the years though it is...
View ArticleWhat the New DNI Threat Assessment Says about Haiti
by Dan Beeton (for CEPR)The Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released its “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community” [PDF] for the Senate Select Committee...
View ArticleWhat Can Come of the Current “Dialogue” Between Bourgeois and Macoutes?
by Isabelle L. Papillon (Haiti Liberte)After rallying Duvalierists in Gonaïves on Jan. 1, 2014, President Michel Martelly is now trying to peddle what he calls “political and institutional dialogue” in...
View ArticleLivesay [Haiti] Weblog: ...On Compassion
Livesay [Haiti] Weblog: ...On Compassion: This Valentine's Eve I am purposefully focusing on compassion rather than the February 14 hearts and cupids type of romantic love. ...
View ArticleMedical Repatriation in America » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Medical Repatriation in America » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
View ArticleDeadly Attack on the Croix-des-Bouquets Prison and Other Insecurity
by Thomas Péralte (Haiti Liberte)Heavily armed bandits in a gray Daihatsu Terios without license plates fired on the civilian prison in Croix des Bouquets on Mon., Feb. 17, 2014 at around 8:00 p.m.,...
View ArticleTen Years After the Coup in Haiti, Democracy is Still Under Siege
by Dan Beeton (CEPR)It has been 10 years since the February 29, 2004 coup d’etat that ousted the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. Paramilitary groups – including...
View ArticleInterview: Former OAS Diplomat Exposes the Crimes of the “International...
Former OAS Diplomat Exposes the Crimes of the “International Community” in HaitiIn his new book, Ricardo Seitenful writes about the “electoral coup” which brought President Martelly to power, the UN’s...
View ArticleVideo: Confronting the IDB over its role in the 2001-2004 embargo on aid to...
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View ArticleIle à Vache Under Siege
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)The government of President Michel Martelly is literally sealing off the Haitian island of Ile à Vache, on which the residents are rising up against government plans to throw...
View ArticleHaiti Solidarity - New Issue - Volume One - Number Three
Please go and read the new issue of "Haiti Solidarity"here. It includes a historical chronology of recent years events in Haiti, as well as a comparison of Haiti and Honduras, Caribbean solidarity...
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