The New Dark Age

20 July, 2010 — HLLN

Ezili Danto’s Note:
For the third straight time this week, Haitians have requested, that HLLN does not forget La Navassa when we are listing what is illegally taken, by force from Haiti. So I herein, revised this sentenced to the piece HLLN just sent out (http://bit.ly/cmycRv) on “The Ezili Danto comment the New York Times won’t post” to include La Navassa:

“The US alone, in addition to a trade and sea embargo on Haiti, similar to that which is now put on Cuba, entered Haiti waters with gunboats more than 24 times from the time of Haiti’s independence – reducing Haiti to debt slavery, denying her the right to trade, brutalizing Haiti’s peoples, terrorizing her merchants, stealing her La Navassa Island and phosphate to aid US agriculture (which Island today is said to have “biological riches unimagined”), crippling her economy, and forcing the Haitian people to depend on the US – before finally occupying the country outright from 1915-1934…”

Additional info on La Navassa at: Vision of Plantation Haiti – A White Pearl, Again! by Ezili Dantò of HLLN at http://bit.ly/bwY2tJ

and at this article: Whose Rock Is It? Yes, the Haitians Care By LARRY ROHTER  | http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/rock.htm

Moreover, Haiti’s Legal Case to La Navassa Island made by lawyers for President Jean Betrand Aristide:

The Haiti legal case made for return of La Navassa Island to Haiti and detailing US debt to Haiti with referenced thereto, including monetary damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the extraction of phosphate may be found at the Hayes Library at Brown University in the United States.