Thousands of pro-Lavalas demonstrators in the streets of Port-au-Prince to mark the 8th anniversary...
By: Agence Haitienne de Presse - Translation by Haiti Analysis
News February 29, 2012
Port-au-Prince, February 29, 2012 - (AHP) - A large pro-Aristide demonstration was held Wednesday in Port-au-Prince called by several organizations...
Haitian Judiciary denies Duvalier’s Crime Against Humanity
By: Wadner Pierre - HaitiAnalysis The former Haitian President for life Jean-Claude Duvalier named "Baby's DOC" is to be tried not for the crime against humanity but for
alleged financial crime. Human...
The Macoutification of Martelly’s Power
By: Kim Ives - Haiti LibertéFeb 15, 2012 In the past few months, while headlines have focused elsewhere, Haitian President Michel Martelly has been quietly resurrecting the intelligence and security apparatus that existed...
2011: Exchange Between Michael Deibert and Joe Emersberger Regarding Haiti
Below is an exchange I had with Michael Deibert in the comments section under an article Deibert wrote for Truthdig in 2011. To see what others commented as well, go to the Truthdig article. My remarks...
NYT Promotes Destructive Myths About Aristide
By: Joe Emersberger - HaitiAnalysis
Ginger Thompson wrote in the New York Times on January 19 that former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide “rose to power as a champion of Haiti’s poor but...
The Labor Movement in Haiti: A Personal Reflection
By: James Jordan - HaitiAnalysis
The most impressive strength of the Haitian labor force is its resiliency and resourcefulness. Even before the earthquake, virtually all sources agreed that unemployment in Haiti was somewhere around 70...
The land that wouldn’t lie: Foreign intervention in Haiti
The Haitian people overthrew slavery, uprooted dictators and foreign military rule, and elected a liberation theologian as president. The west has made them pay for their audacity.
An abbreviated version of this article first appeared...
Peter Hallward’s A review of Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power
by Peter Hallward
The basic argument of Alex Dupuy’s new book is that between 1990 and 2006, Haiti’s “tumultuous transition to democracy” was “temporarily derailed by both Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his enemies” (203). In particular,...
The Failure Of Human Rights Watch
By: Joe Emersberger - HaitiAnalysis
The way Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right...
Labor, Neoliberalism, and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
By: Jeb Sprague - HaitiAnalysis
This
paper was originally prepared for a presentation at the 32nd Annual
Conference of the South-West Labor Studies Association, Mach 10-11,
2006 at UCLA. Earlier rough draft versions were published in Labor Notes
Magazine...
