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10 Years Ago, We Pledged To Help Haiti Rebuild. Then What Happened?

By Isabel Macdonald - In These Times THE EARTHQUAKE THAT STRUCK HAITI ON JAN. 12, 2010,unleashed one of the worst humanitarian crises in decades. In hard-hit places like Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital and most densely populated...

U.S. seeking to intensify divisions in the Caribbean

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Review of New Book: Globalizing the Caribbean

By: Jerry Harris - Race & Class - Jeb Sprague has made a major contribution by updating the study of the Caribbean to the current era of transnational capital. The modern Caribbean was produced through...

Political Revolution or Popular Uprising? New Horizon in Haiti

HaitiAnalysis – At HaitiAnalysis we have observed how recent turns of events have redefined even the language describing the permanent Haiti crisis, to the point where terms like “insurgents” and “insurgency”, or “Revolution” and “revolutionary”,...

Media Censorship & Political Corruption in the Dominican Republic

By: Ariel Fornari - HaitiAnalysis - In recent articles we have analyzed the Dominican Republic's political scene in the lead up to the 2020 elections as well as geopolitics in the region. In this article we...

Trump’s Venezuela Policy Is Causing Turmoil in the Caribbean

By: Safiya Charles - The New Republic - The tiny island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, like other U.S. allies in the region, is receiving large numbers of refugees. Better known to most Americans for its...

As Police Capture Infamous Gang Leader, President Nominates a New Prime Minister: Fritz-William Michel

By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte - Besieged Haitian President Jovenel Moïse nominated his fourth prime minister on Mon., Jul. 22: Fritz-William Michel, 38. Michel had been tapped to be the Planning Minister in the government...

The case for PetroCaribe: Why the focus should be on Haitian lawmakers, not just...

By: Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis - Haiti, we have seen this before, and the winners have not been the people on the streets, but the business elites. The Parliament is the only branch in our...

The OAS Trampled Legality in Bringing the PHTK to Power. It’s Doing So Again...

By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte - Eight years ago, the Organization of American States (OAS) helped orchestrate an illegal election which brought President Michel Martelly to power, thereby introducing an era of unprecedented corruption...

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

By: Peter James Hudson - Boston Review - Scrubbed from the pages of glossy coffeetable books, the history of U.S. imperialism can be found in the archives of Wall Street’s oldest, largest, and most powerful...