Haitian Senate Calls for Halt to Mining Activities
by Haiti Grassroots Watch and Inter Press Service
Outraged that they have not been consulted, this week Haitian senators called for a moratorium on all activities connected with recently granted gold and copper mining permits.
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WikiLeaked Cables Raise Question: Did the U.S. Green-Light Duvalier’s Return in 2011?
By Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Feb. 7, 2013 promises to be a
hot day in Haiti.
Thousands
of Haitians are planning to march through Port-au-Prince to protest President
Michel Martelly’s patent corruption and drift toward a repressive
neo-Duvalierist dictatorship.
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Accident in St. Marc: MINUSTAH continues to sow mourning
by Yves Pierre-Louis (Haiti Liberte)
In Saint-Marc, Dieudaline
Jérôme, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was killed on Fri., Jan. 25, 2013 by a
vehicle driven by soldiers of the UN Mission to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH), as
the foreign forces occupying...
With Cabinet Reshuffle and Proposal to Trim Senate Terms, Martelly Regime Veers Hard Right
by Thomas Péralte (Haiti Liberte)
President Michel Martelly and
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe reshuffled their...
World Bank and IMF Forecasts Follow Predictable Pattern for Haiti, Venezuela
by Arthur Phillips and Stephan Lefebvre (CEPR Americas Blog)
The World Bank has joined the “doom and gloom” chorus on Venezuela’s economy. And in Haiti, the Washington-based institution again appears overly optimistic.
On Tuesday, January 15,...
Phoenix Project: Controversial Garbage-Powered Plant Faces Uncertain Future
by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Haiti Liberte)
For more than two years, teams
of U.S. and Haitian businesspeople have been working on massive public-private
business deal: a factory that would transform garbage from the capital into
electricity, a resource...
Unrest in St. Marc
by
Tony Savino (Haiti Liberte)
Haitian
police in St. Marc grabbed and severely beat a popular teacher from a street
band slowly winding along Route Nationale #1 on Sunday night, Jan. 20. The
police did not like that the...
A Review of Haiti’s New Dictatorship: Sovereignty vs. Intervention
by
Isabeau Doucet (Haiti Liberte)
During
the build up to and aftermath of the 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Haiti’s popular priest-turned-president, the Haitian and international press
reported two conflicting narratives. Even in the left-wing media office of ZNet,
where...
IJDH’s Take on Recent Délille Probe
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Brian Concannon is a founder and director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). He has had a ring-side seat to legal affairs in Haiti for almost...
