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Reflections by Comrade Fidel: Haiti’s lesson

by Fidel Castro Jan. 14 – Two days ago, close to 6 in the evening Cuba time, already dark in Haiti due to its geographical location, the TV channels started carrying news that a violent earthquake – of...

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Nine months after the quake, a million Haitians slowly dying

Don’t miss the great Randall Robinson discussing ‘An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President’ with Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee and Walter Turner of...

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Haiti: The catastrophe continues

by G. Dunkel A 10-minute storm Sept. 24 killed five, injured hundreds, downed trees and billboards and ripped thousands of tent, tarp and sheet “homes” to shreds in Port au Prince. Is it that the world...

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‘All elements of society are participating’: impressions of Cap Haitien’s...

by Ansel Herz Cap Haitien – The first barricade looked harmless enough. Foot-long rocks piled next to each other in a line. Protesters in Cap Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city, where cholera rages,...

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WikiLeaks: Haiti’s elite tried to turn the police into a private army

by Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives The people of Cité Soleil march on Jan. 26, 2008, to stop a series of U.N. massacres. – Photo: Jean Ristil, HaitiAnalysis.com Leading members of Haiti’s bourgeoisie tried...

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Bye-bye, MINUSTAH!

Editors’ note: Axis of Logic first published this article in English on Aug. 15, and the Bay View followed on Aug. 17. Due to requests from Haitian readers and others, Dady Chery has translated her...

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Why it took 11 months instead of three weeks to show that Haiti’s cholera is...

A tale of noble and ignoble scientists, Harvard and the U.N. Mis à jour avec traduction française by Dady Chery A Haitian resident holds his relative who is suffering from cholera at St-Catherine...

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What happens in Haiti doesn’t stay in Haiti

by Dady Chery Preparation for two sporting events, the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, is the excuse for forcing the eviction of Brazilians who live in the favelas that cling to the mountains above...

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Haiti’s elected mayors illegally replaced by presidential appointees

by Dady Chery Haiti Chery – Back in May 2011, undistracted by Haiti’s $4.5-million presidential inauguration, I sounded the alarm about a brewing legislative coup d’etat: “Within five days of being...

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The character assassination of Samba Boukman

by Dominique Esser Samba Boukman 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...

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Paramilitary gangs join UN force in preying on Haitian population

by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery Members of the dissolved Haitian army parade at Camp Lamantin, a former military base in Port-au-Prince. – Photo: Ramon Espinosa, AP For several weeks, armed groups of young...

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Massacre at La Visite

by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery “The right to own property does not extend to the coasts, springs, rivers, water courses, mines and quarries. They are part of the State’s public domain.” – Haitian 1987...

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The UN’s cholera epidemic in Haiti

Time to clean up one of the UN’s biggest crimes by Mark Weisbrot Haitians have had a long and arduous struggle just to achieve the rights that most people in the rest of the hemisphere have enjoyed....

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Resistance to Martelly regime grows in Haiti

by Ben Terrall The family of Haitian President Michel Martelly – Olivier, Malaika, First Lady Sophia, Yanni and Sandro – stand tall for his inauguration in May 2011. Since then, during their frequent...

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UPDATE: Haitians protect Aristide from attack on Lavalas

by Malaika Kambon President Martelly-appointed Haitian Prosecutor Lucmane Delille, a former member of the GNB (Balls Up Your Butt) movement that worked to oust Aristide in 2004, has arrested 21 Lavalas...

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Ecuador and Brazil training new Haitian army

by Charlie Hinton The Feb. 29, 2004, kidnapping and coup d’état began a brutal ongoing U.S.-U.N. occupation that aimed to suppress Haiti’s people’s movement and roll back the hard-won democratic gains...

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15 US lawmakers ask Haiti Senate to make way for mock elections

Open letter from the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) regarding the Sept. 15 U.S. Congressional letter addressed to the Haiti Senate urging it to clear the path for another round of mock...

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Et tu, Brute? Haiti’s betrayal by Latin America

by Dady Chery Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff reviews U.N. troops in Haiti. – Photo: Blog do Planalto For the 10th year since the forcible removal of elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...

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Five years later: Haitians step up their fight for independence and democracy

by Ezili Dantò In this Charles Boylan radio interview from Vancouver, Canada, conducted on Jan. 7, 2015, Ezili Dantò discusses the 11-year U.S. occupation of Haiti that’s outsourced to the U.N....

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Fact finding delegation reports an electoral coup now in process in Haiti

Every vote must count; Black lives matter in Haiti too by Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee; Yvon Kernizan, Haitian Human Rights Campaigner; Margaret Prescod, journalist and Global Women’s...

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