Haiti 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 Map and International
Organization for Migration. For six days...
As Huge Demonstrations Call for President’s Resignation: Proposal for a Post-Martelly Transitional Government Comes...
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Huge demonstrations calling for
President Michel Martelly to step down are growing in size, scope, and
frequency. On Nov. 7, a march of many thousands, called by the Patriotic Force
for Respect of...
Illuminating Haiti’s Plight: A review of Claire Limyè Lanmè – Claire of the Sea...
by Greg Dunkel (for Haiti Liberte)
A review of Claire
Limyè Lanmè – Claire of the Sea Light, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, Alfred
A. Knopf, New York, 2013
This fine insight-filled novel interlaces characters ranging
from the 7-year-old...
Uruguay Will Withdraw from MINUSTAH, President Says. Beginning of End of UN Occupation of...
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Following a visit earlier this month from Haitian Sen. Moïse
Jean-Charles, Uruguay’s President José Mujica told a council of ministers on
Oct. 28 that he would withdraw Uruguayan troops from the United...
Questions Swirl Around World Vision’s Targeted Food Program
by Haiti Grassroots Watch
A food distribution program
aimed at expectant and new mothers and their babies may have increased the
number of girls and women getting pregnant in and around the town of Savanette,
located in Haiti’s...
Demonstrators Surround Police Station as Prominent Regime Critic Arrested
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Over 1000 people massed in front
of a police station in the Martissant section of Port-au-Prince on the evening
of Oct. 22 as police encircled the car of outspoken lawyer André Michel,...
Haiti: Turning Back the Clock
By: Ayana Labossiere - Haiti Action Committee
I will never forget my first trip to Haiti. In 1990, at five years old, I went to Haiti with my dad to visit family. I spent my...
Behind Haiti’s Hunger
by Haiti Grassroots Watch
During the past year or so in
Haiti, as humanitarian actors raised an alarm about hunger, Haiti Grassroots
Watch (HGW) journalists kept hearing complaints and rumors about the misuse,
abuse, or negative effects of...
Long-Awaited Haiti Cholera Lawsuit Against the UN to be Launched This Week
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
The legal noose is tightening
around the United Nations to take responsibility for unleashing the world’s
worst cholera epidemic in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, where
hundreds of thousands have been affected by...
Popular Forum: Roadmap Proposed for a Provisional Government
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
On Sep. 30, the 22nd
anniversary of the 1991 coup d’état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince
and Cap Haïtien to demand two things:...
