Lavalas Masses Rise up Against Aristide’s Political Persecution
by Isabelle Papillon (Haiti Liberte)
When Lucmane Délille, Port-au-Prince’s district attorney, summoned former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to appear before him on Wednesday, Jan. 9 to answer patently frivolous complaints, it caused a great awakening of...
Three Years after Haiti Earthquake: Hundreds of Thousands Homeless Despite Billions Funneled to NGOs,...
by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas (Haiti Liberte)
Despite billions in aid which were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects...
Tumultuous Year Ahead in Haiti: Martelly Regime Presents Aristide a Warrant, Duvalier a ...
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
When former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Haiti on Jan. 16, 2011, a state prosecutor visited him two days later about the many crimes against humanity...
Letter to Mark Tran of the UK Guardian
Dear Mark Tran:
You wrote of Haiti that
“About 6% of the population have been infected and more than 7,500 people have died – a higher toll than the political instability that brought the...
Make a donation to Haiti by reading and speaking up about it
by Joe Emersberger
Please donate the time required to read the books about Haiti that I discuss below, at least one of them, and then speak up about what you learn.
An impressive, and growing, body...
Montreal: Screening of “Haiti: Where Did the Money Go” and “Baseball In the Time...
by Canada Haiti Action Network
Cinema Politica Concordia is
hosting the screening of two outstanding films, “Haiti: Where Did the Money Go” and “Baseball In the Time of Cholera” on Mon., Jan. 21, 2013 at 7:00...
Accord to Break Electoral Council Stand-Off between Martelly and Parliament Appears “Stillborn”
by Isabelle L. Papillon (Haiti Liberte)
Poor governance, disregard of
Haiti’s laws, a tendency to ride roughshod over other institutions and branches
of government, and a lack of a spirit of compromise from the right-wing regime
headed by...
How a World Bank “success” undermines Haitian democracy
by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Haiti Liberte)
A $61 million, eight-year World Bank community development
project implemented across half of Haiti has successfully repaired roads, built
schools, and distributed livestock. However, the Project for Participatory
Community Development (PRODEP) –...
UN Gives Journalism Prize to Investigation Exposing UN Responsibility for Cholera – And Still...
by Dan Beeton and Jake Johnson (CEPR)
Tonight, in a ceremony presided over by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, BBC correspondent Mark Doyle and producer Piers Scholfield will be presented with an award from the U.N. Correspondents Association...
UN Responds to Cholera Crisis in Haiti with Repackaged Aid
by Roger Annis (Haiti Liberte)
In a short ceremony in New York on
Dec. 11, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced
what appeared to be an important nod to international grassroots pressure to
fund a universal treatment and prevention...
