More Pressure Necessary to Get Desperately Needed Clean Water to Haiti
by Mark Weisbrot (for Al Jazeera English)
More than two years and nearly 7,800 deaths after U.N. troops brought the dread disease of cholera to Haiti, a plan has finally been put forward to do something...
The Kidnapping of Maryse Cinéus
Her Family Says They Now Live in Fear
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Four men, including a policeman,
kidnapped Maryse Cinéus, 36, from her home in Croix des Bouquets on May 12,
2012, according to her family. The...
Uprising in Jérémie
by Isabelle L Papillon (Haiti Liberte)
Violent protests shook the
southwestern city of Jérémie for four consecutive days from Nov. 27 to Nov. 30. The town’s angry population
blocked the vehicles of the Brazilian construction company Construtora...
SOA Watch: We’re Still there Until the School of Americas Is Closed
by Wadner Pierre (originally published by The Maroon)
For the first time in two years, a group of Loyola students traveled to a US military- sponsored school in
Fort Benning, Ga. to protest the 1989 massacre of six...
Mystery Still Surrounds Young Man’s Death
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Shots rang out during a
demonstration on Nov. 16 on Rue Oswald Durand near the Economy and Finance
Ministry Annex, in front of the State University’s Law School.
Afterwards,
Daniel Stanley Florestal, 19,...
New Arrest in the Brandt Kidnapping Case
by Thomas Péralte (Haiti Liberte)
Haitian authorities have
captured another alleged member of the kidnapping ring headed by Haitian elite
businessman Clifford Brandt. Haitian immigration officers arrested Mathurin
Kerwens Jacques at the border town of Malpasse on Nov....
La reconstitution de l’armée ferait repartir Haïti 30 ans en arrière.
Par Jeb Sprague - Le Grand SoirLe Gouvernement haïtien prépare le retour de l’armée haïtienne, pourtant dissoute, qui a été une institution coupable de nombreux crimes perpétrés dans le pays. Au même moment, des unités...
Who is Really Leading Reconstruction Efforts in Haiti?
By: Haiti Relief &
Reconstruction Watch, Center for Economic and Policy Research
After decades of bypassing the
Haitian government in the provision of aid, after the 2010 earthquake there was
an acknowledgment by international NGOs and donors that...
Hurricane Sandy is another blow to Haiti
by Roger Annis (for Haiti Liberte)
Hurricane Sandy struck another
heavy blow to Haiti on Oct. 23 and 24, 2012. At least 54 people died, and
dozens more are missing. Several tens of thousands of people were...
Assassinated Cop Led Kidnapping Ring from Pernier Police Station
Police officials never moved against him
despite kidnapping victim’s complaint
by
Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Heavily
armed assailants gunned down Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur
in a hail of bullets on the morning of Fri., Nov. 9 near the...
