Spectacular Corruption Charges Rock Martelly Regime
by Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte)
Follow the money, says the old adage of investigative journalism. A crusading Dominican journalist did just that with dozens of financial documents from some Dominican construction firms and uncovered shocking...
Wikileaks Shine light on US Role in Haiti: Police Chief Standoff Reflects Fierce Class...
By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte
First, President Michel Martelly got rid of Prime Minister Garry
Conille in February. Now, he is trying to fire the Director General of the Haitian National Police (HNP) Mario Andresol. But...
Exhuming Failed Prosecutions: Washington Renews Its Campaign Against Aristide
NEWLY REVEALED WIKILEAKS SHOW LONG HISTORY OF FRUITLESS U.S. PURSUIT
By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte
Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide “is once again in the crosshairs of the U.S. government,” reported the Miami Herald on Mar. 4,...
Help that Hurts in Haiti: Justin Podur interviews Tim Schwartz
Originally posted on Znet
Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book, Travesty in Haiti, and of an upcoming book studying...
America’s subversion of Haiti’s democracy continues
By: Mark Weisbrot (UK Guardian)
When the "international community" blames Haiti
for its political troubles, the underlying concept is usually that
Haitians are not ready for democracy. But it is Washington that is...
Haiti and the Media – The Gangs of the Fourth Estate
By: Dominique Esser - HaitiAnalysis
No, this is not about defamatory media allegations about child sacrifice in the style of the writer Michael Deibert, or even the blatant underreporting of crowds to diminish...
Samba Boukman on his life and the necessity of non-violence in the struggle for...
Haitian activist Samba Boukman, victim of an assassination on March 9, 2012, speaks about his life and the necessity of non-violence in the struggle for political freedom in this 2007 interview. Boukman was a...
The Character Assassination of Samba Boukman
Samba Boukman
by Dominique Esser
The long time Haitian community organizer Samba Boukman was assassinated on Friday, March 9, 2012 and major media outlets, immediately following his death, reported on Boukman as having been...
Opening Space for Popular Movements: A Conversation with Samba Boukman and Samba Mackandal
In light of today's assassination of grassroots haitian activist Samba Boukman we have published an interview that was conducted with Boukman by a Canadian solidarity delegation in March of 2006. Thus far coverage...
Who is Laurent Lamothe, and what are his chances to be Prime Minister?
By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte
Laurent Lamothe is Haitian President Michel Martelly’s brain, just as political strategist Karl Rove was to former U.S. President George W. Bush.
Lamothe was the guy who...
