Haiti
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As the U.S. Classifies Haitian Armed Coalition as “Terrorist,” Its Leader Warns that a Coup d’Etat is Being Planned
On May 2, the U.S. State Department formally classified the Viv Ansanm (Let’s Live Together) Political Party, formed from a coalition of armed neighborhood groups in the greater Port-au-Prince region, as well as the Artibonite Valley-based armed group Gran Grif (Big Claws), as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” Continue reading
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Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution with an Inhumane Debt: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2025)
On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola. Boukman was captured in Senegambia (now Senegal and The Gambia), and Fatiman was the daughter of a woman from the Congo (as Aimé Césaire wrote)… Continue reading
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USAID Exported CIA Balkan Terror to Haiti
On December 19th, James Foley, US ambassador to Haiti 2003 – 2005, published an explosive op-ed in rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb”, with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate Stateside, “mounting gang violence”, withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations” due to “threats”, and “criminal”… Continue reading
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Haitian Government Hires the Mercenaries of a U.S. Security Contractor, but Questions Remain
In late September, Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille quietly reached an agreement with Studebaker Defense Group, a multinational security contractor whose employees include many former Pentagon and CIA officials. The firm had been angling for work in Haiti for more than a year. Continue reading
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Haiti: Exclusive Interview with Jimmy Chérizier
Who is Jimmy Chérizier, aka ‘Barbecue,’ the Haitian gang leader? Pan Africanist Emergencies spokesperson Maud-Salomé Ekila spoke with the former police officer on behalf of African Stream to gain a detailed understanding of the man. Continue reading
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The West is Still Afraid of Black Haitians
At the beginning of March 2024, before the CELAC Heads of State meeting in Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced the new threats to the Haitian people: “We don’t agree with an invasion, whether open or camouflaged. The solution is for Latin America and the Caribbean to accompany, to help… Continue reading
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In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity
AUGUST 3, 2023—The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) condemns in the strongest possible terms Kenya’s proposal to lead what amounts to a foreign armed intervention in Haiti. Continue reading
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LIVE: Haiti in the Age of the Ukraine Proxy War w/ Jemima Pierre and Margaret Kimberley
Tuesday, 10 January 2023 — The Left Lens With Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley Continue reading
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We stand with Haitian journalists!
This year alone, eight journalists have been killed by police and paramilitaries in Haiti, according to data from the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA). This increase in violence against press professionals at a time of mass uprising has been widely condemned by civil society and human rights organizations in the country and internationally. Continue reading
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The Last Thing Haiti Needs Is Another Military Intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’. To many close observers of the situation unfolding in Haiti, the phrase ‘effective support’ sounded like Geneus was signalling… Continue reading
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Uprising targets Canada’s man in Haiti
A popular uprising has paralyzed life in much of Haiti. While police are violently suppressing protesters, don’t expect Canadian officials to criticize security forces they fund. Continue reading
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Canada Supports Oligarchic Gangsterism in Haiti
Rosa Luxemburg popularized the dictum “Socialism or Barbarism”. Since World War I Leftists of various stripes have adopted or modified the maxim. In Haiti the struggle has been between those seeking “poverty with dignity” and oligarchic gangsterism. Unfortunately, Canada has been on the side of barbarism. Continue reading
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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars Continue reading
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In Cité Soleil, the G9 Federation in All-Out War with G-Pèp
On the evening of Jul. 11, amid fierce gun battles, a combatant of Haiti’s “Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies, Mess With One, You Mess With All” (commonly referred to as the G9) called a Haïti Liberté source: “Right now, I’m lying in Ti Gabriel’s bed,” he told the source. Continue reading
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A Dirty Occupation: The UN’s Criminal Enterprise and Ecological Catastrophe in Haiti
What are the environmental and ecological impacts of large-scale military occupations by the United Nations “peacekeeping” missions? The deadly cholera epidemic unleashed on the Haitian people by UN soldiers is an extension of a totality of violence – material, political, and ecological – enacted by a presumably humanitarian peacekeeping mission. Continue reading
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Revolutionary Front Seizes Haiti’s Largest Fuel Terminal as US Weighs Military Intervention
Jimmy Cherizier and the FRG9 have taken control of Haiti’s most important shipping terminal, demanding the resignation and trial of Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry. While the Biden administration is reluctant to intervene, the Beltway establishment is ramping up the pressure. Continue reading
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Haiti’s debt of independence
In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti’s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing “property rights” over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout “light skinned” local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part of the story. Continue reading
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Imperialism and its discontents
On the night of 14 August 1791, enslaved Africans gathered in the Bois Caïman forest and planned the revolt that would begin the Haitian Revolution. Last week, on the 230th anniversary of this meeting, Haiti was hit by an earthquake that has upturned the lives of more than a million people. The count of the… Continue reading
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Haiti News Links 15-16 August 2021
16 August 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Haiti earthquake: Death toll climbs to 1,297 as storm nears https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58222888 Why Not Boycott US Products Until It Ends Its Embargo of Cuba and Leaves Guantanamo? https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/why-not-boycott-us-products-until-it-ends-its-embargo-of-cuba-and-leaves-guantanamo/ Continue reading
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Haiti News Links 14-15 August 2021
15 August 2021 — The New Dark Age First Footage From Haiti Hit By 7.2-Magnitude Earthquake (Number Of Casualties Updated) https://southfront.org/first-footage-from-haiti-hit-by-7-2-magnitude-earthquake/ 5.8-magnitude tremor rocks Haiti as it reels from devastating quake that killed over 300 https://www.rt.com/news/532080-haiti-quake-aftershock-new/ Continue reading
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