World Bank Mining Ruling Will Only Bring More Pain to Haiti
By Nathalie Baptiste (Haiti Liberte)In early February, in yet another blow to Haitian civil society, the World Bank refused to hear a complaint filed by the Justice Mining Collective on the revival of...
View ArticleEduardo Galeano on Haiti
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)On Apr. 13, 2015, the influential Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano, 74, died of lung cancer in Montevideo. He wrote over 30 books, including the seminal “Open...
View ArticleDominican Campesinos Accuse Military Brass of Land Grab
teleSURTop military officials have been accused of seizing land from some of the Dominican Republic's poorest people. A campesino advocacy organization in the Dominican Republic accused the military on...
View ArticleHaiti Solidarity Interview: MILDRED ARISTIDE, FORMER FIRST LADY OF HAITI
Mildred Aristide is an attorney, who as former First Lady of Haiti, headed the country’s National AIDS Commission and authored a book on the root causes of child domestic service. Since her family’s...
View ArticleHAITI SOLIDARITY, newsletter of Haiti Action Committee
See the new issue of HAITI SOLIDARITY here.This new issue of Haiti Solidarity features: Cover Art - "Dechoukaj" - Nia ImaraEvolution of a Revolution - Charlie HintonInterview with Pierre Labossiere on...
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25 Years After April 20, 1990: As the Empire Adapts, So Must We
by Berthony Dupont (Haiti Liberte)This week marked the 25th anniversary of the historic Apr. 20, 1990 march by over 150,000 Haitians across the Brooklyn Bridge (literally shaking it) into downtown...
View ArticleHBO’s Vice Follows the Money in Haiti
by Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)Vikram Gandhi, VICE on HBO correspondent traveled to Haiti to see just what happened with the $10 billion in aid pledged after the earthquake that...
View ArticleMartelly Thugs Attack KOD Militants at May Day Demonstration
by Berthony Dupont (Haiti Liberte)Hooligans attached to the regime of President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Evans Paul attacked about 30 militants from the Dessalines Coordination (KOD) party as...
View ArticlePresidents Hollande and Martelly Obfuscate France’s Debt to Haiti
by Isabelle L. Papillon (Haiti Liberte) It was to cries of "Long Live Dessalines, Down with Hollande!" that Haitian protesters welcomed French President François Hollande during his visit to...
View ArticleMaryse Narcisse Registers as the Presidential Candidate of the Lavalas Family...
by Daniel Tercier (Haiti Liberte)With great fanfare, on May 19, Dr. Maryse Narcisse, the coordinator of the Lavalas Family Political Organization (FL), registered as that party’s candidate for...
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CEP Releases Final List of Candidates for Legislative Elections
by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)Early on the morning of May 15, Haiti’s electoral authority posted online the final list of approved candidates for legislative elections scheduled...
View ArticleHaiti Cholera Plaintiffs Appeal Ruling
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)On May 27, lawyers representing thousands of Haitian cholera victims filed an appeal against Federal Judge J. Paul Oetken’s Jan. 9, 2015 decision that the United Nations is...
View ArticleOpinions Differ on Changing the Electoral Schedule
by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)Last week, in a conversation with Haitian journalists in Washington, D.C., Thomas Adams, the Haiti special coordinator at the State Department, said...
View ArticleLil Wayne and Chris Brown in Haiti: Another Expensive Martelly Spectacle...
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)Around 100 A.D., the Roman poet Juvenal remarked that Rome, its empire rapidly declining, was suppressing revolt through “bread and circuses.” President Michel Martelly,...
View ArticleHow History Has Been Distorted to Justify the Dominican Deportations
by Anne Eller (Haiti Liberte)Over the past two years, a legal nightmare has grown in the Dominican Republic. Taking aim at Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent, the Dominican Constitutional...
View ArticleHaiti Action Committee: Interview with Mildred Aristide, former First Lady of...
Click here to read the latest issue of the Haiti Action Committee Newsletter which contains an interview with Mildred Aristide
View ArticleHaiti for Whom?: Aid Accountability in Haiti
Following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, the international community announced around $10 billion in relief and reconstruction assistance. With limited tangible results on the ground, Haitian and...
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“A Political Coup” – Interview with Youseline Augustin Bell, Cap-Haïtien
By: Sokari Ekine - http://propagandapress.orgMdm Youseline Augustin Bell is an educator, psychologist, and attorney. In 1995 together with her husband Bell Angelot they opened the College Bell Angelot...
View ArticleFraud, Violence, and Protests Cloud Results of Haitian Election
by Jake Johnston- source: CEPR On August 9, in the impoverished Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, a man in plainclothes carrying an automatic weapon casually got into a crowded SUV and left...
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