Dominican Campesinos Accuse Military Brass of Land Grab
teleSUR
Top 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 Friday of carrying out forced...
Eduardo 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 Veins of Latin America”...
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
the mining sector in Haiti.
...
The Back-Story of the Late Oriel Jean, Former Security Chief for Aristide
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
(The second of two articles)
On Mar. 2, 2015, gunmen killed Oriel Jean, President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s former security chief from 2001 to 2003, in
Port-au-Prince. After misleading media reports and rumors, he was...
USA Today Ranks UCSB Sociology #1 Nationally
I normally do not post things like this, but this has been very exciting news for the graduate students and faculty here in my Department at UCSB. For more see here.
AHP: Milliers de manifestants dans les rues de Port-au-Prince ce jeudi dans le cadre...
Agence haitienne de presse
Port-au-Prince, le 8 janvier 2015 (AHP) – C’est ce jeudi 8 janvier qu’a été lancée, comme annoncé, la dernière phase de l’opération Burkina Faso qui vise à contraindre le président Michel Martelly...
AHP: Crise politique: l’avenir du premier ministre désigné Evans Paul toujours hypothétique: les partis...
Agence haitienne de presse
Port-au-Prince, le 8 janvier 2015- (AHP) – Rien n'est encore joué dans le dossier Evans Paul, premier ministre designé ulilatéralement, selon l'opposition, par le président Michel Martelly.Divers secteurs exerceraient des pressions de...
Washington Post: Haiti is broken because of intervention
Washington Post - Letter to the Editor
The Dec. 28 editorial “Haiti’s broken politics” concluded that, absent international intervention, Haiti will crumble into anarchy. In fact, Haiti’s crisis is, in large part, a consequence of...
