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...
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
By Peter Hallward - HaitiAnalysis A shorter version of this article first appeared in the newspaper Haiti Liberté, in nine instalments, October-November 2007. Peter Hallward is the author of a new book, Damming the...
Haiti’s CCI: The Tail Wagging the Dog?
By: Mark Schuller - HaitiAnalysis
Executive Summary
The interim government submitted an Interim Cooperation Framework (in French, Cadre de Coopération Intérimaire, CCI) to the international community at a donor’s meeting hosted by the World Bank on...
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
(this article first appeared in the newspaper Haiti Liberté, in nine installments October-November 2007)
A little less than four years ago, in late February 2004, France, the US and a few other old ‘friends of Haiti’ called on...
If stones could float: the British press and the Turks and Caicos
By Peter Hallward
If stones could float: the British press and the Turks and Caicos
boat disaster
15 July 2007 (updated 6 September 2007)
Every now and then something happens which helps to shed a little...
Father Gerard Jean-Juste Returns Home and Visits Parish
By: Wadner Pierre – HaitiAnalysis
From the 17th to the 20th of August 2007, the well-known human rights activist and liberation theologian Gerard Jean-Juste visited his home in Haiti. During his recent visit Jean-Juste took...
