Haiti
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Haiti: Six Months After the Earthquake…The Deadly Realities of Imperialist Aid
Six months ago, on January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, an island nation of about 9 million. The quake killed at least a quarter million people, and left over 1.5 million homeless. As Revolution brought out at the time, this devastation did not result solely from a natural disaster. It was made massively… Continue reading
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Video – Six Months After the Earthquake: Deep Wounds in Haiti
Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before. Continue reading
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Haiti: Six Months On Video Report By Al Jazeera
Six months after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people, the dust is starting to settle over Port-au-Prince. As it does, the deep wounds that fracture this country are re-emerging, more gaping than even before. One-and-a-half million people remain displaced, many living under tents and tarps. Rubble removal is slow, and rebuilding has yet… Continue reading
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New York Times refused to post Ezili Danto's comment on the hoax
“First let me say there are two mistakes in this New York Times blog, one the writer or his editor make themselves, the other is in the statement made by the hoaxers. The title of this piece is France Will Not Repay Haiti Reparations. It’s wrong because the debt is not about reparations but restitution. Continue reading
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Stealing La Navassa Island – add it to the list of what's owed to Haiti
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 Continue reading
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Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake By Amy Goodman
July 12 marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake here in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins. Up to 1.8 million people are living in squalid tent cities, with inadequate sanitation, if any, no electricity and little security, or any respite from the intense… Continue reading
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Misery and Despair Plague Haitians By Stephen Lendman
Torrential afternoon rains leave “lake-sized puddles in which mosquitoes breed, then spread malaria. Deep, raspy coughs can be heard everywhere. Scabies and other infections transform children’s soft skin into irritating red bumpy rashes. Bellies are swelling and hair turning orange from malnutrition. Vomiting and diarrhea are as common as flies.” Continue reading
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HLLN 16 July, 2010: Two percent to Haiti not enough | Hackers clone French Foreign Ministry website
16 July, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Fake Website Says France will pay back Haiti Independence Debt by Ezili Dantò bit.ly/bNGy44 and at bit.ly/aLUy9G Sarkozy, Haiti, Independence Debt and Sovereignty bit.ly/9XMEAl In this post – Commentary: Two percent to Haiti not enough By Sir Ronald Sanders, Friday, July 16, 2010 | Caribbean News www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-23967—6-6—.html Continue reading
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Fake Website says France will pay Haiti back Independence Debt it extorted at gun-point | France threatens to sue | Ezili Danto analysis: What if it wasn't a hoax?
Since we’re looking at this hypothetically as if France had made an admission of error, we ask when will the US pay its part of the Independence Debt paid by Haiti from 1914 to 1947? Compensate Haiti farmers for the lost of our agriculture per Clinton’s apology? Compensate Haiti farmers for USAID’s destruction of Haiti’s… Continue reading
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HLLN 15 July, 2010: Breaking news: France decides to pay Haiti, over the course of 50-years, the Independence Debt (17billion) it extorted by force of arms
France is repaying the historic debt of 90 million gold francs Haiti paid to France following the former’s independence at the dawn of the 19th century. Continue reading
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HLLN 14 July, 2010: Haiti must extradite Douglas Perlitz to face charges, he must not get off on jurisdictional technicalities in CT | Sasha Kramer's campaign in Haiti to set accused pedophile Douglas Perlitz free
UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children Continue reading
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Where Is Haiti's Bailout? By Isabel MacDonald
“Now is the time to step up our investment in Haiti,” Clinton reiterated in April at an Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Washington, D.C. Yet six months after the earthquake, the plan for a “New Future for Haiti” (a “Haitian-led” effort which is curiously being funded under World Bank oversight, through a commission whose 20… Continue reading
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Land Ownership at the Crux of Haiti's Stalled Reconstruction
Six months after the earthquake, many Haitians told us they have seen little in terms of recovery efforts despite the billions of dollars in aid pledged from around the world. At the heart of the matter is the issue of land ownership. We speak with journalist Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté. In his latest article,… Continue reading
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In the Shadow of Ruins: Haitians Decry Conditions in Massive Tent City Across from Destroyed National Palace
Haiti is struggling to recover six months after the earthquake—one of the worst natural disasters in history. Up to 300,000 were killed, and more than 1.5 million were made homeless. We go inside the Camp de Mars tent camp across from the crushed national palace in Port-au-Prince to let the Haitians living there tell their… Continue reading
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Haiti a police state run by the US & UN | Heavy rains under tarps and tents six months later…yet billions raised and available
14 July, 2010 — HLLN Ezili Danto’s note: Many wrote to say they could not get to the last two articles posted. We’ve copied the article on the Ezili Danto blog for your convenience. Ezili Dantò – Oil Deposits in the Caribbean basin – largest deposit ever bit.ly/cWQTMP Other Recommended HLLN Links to mark the Continue reading
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HLLN 7 July, 2010: Flashpoint interview – latest news direct from Haiti | Open letter on Haitian agriculture to CEO of Monsanto | Bill Clinton’s Heavy Hand on Haiti’s Vulnerable Agricultural Economy: The American Rice Scandal
Bill Clinton recently apologized before the U.S. Senate for the U.S. trade and aid policies that led to the destruction of Haiti’s capacity to feed itself. Monsanto is a charter member of the industrial-agricultural complex that has long driven those policies in the U.S. government and international institutions, exploiting every opening to break down local… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 July, 2010: Emmanuel Dred Wilmè, Haiti's warrior assassinated by UN/US occupiers on July 6, 2005 | “There will always be more Dred Wilmés as long as there is misery and exclusion imposed on Haiti” says participants at Wilme's funeral
“…The Haitian resistance against the Western bicentennial re-colonization of Haiti lives on. Below, we bring again the voice of Drèd Wilme, speaking a few days after the Apaid-hired-gun, Labanye, was killed and the UN occupation troops themselves had entered Site Soleil to continue the Haitian extermination campaign begun when the U.S. Marines kidnapped President Aristide… Continue reading
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Oil Deposits in the Carribean basin – largest deposit ever discovered, under some of the poorest countries
“There is ample evidence that the oil reserves under the Caribbean Basin are on the same scale as those of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden combined, and that they contain three thousand more times natural gas than oil. Energy reserves of that magnitude will change the geopolitical balance of… Continue reading
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Gangs and Violence in Jamaica and Haiti By Roger Annis
When police in Jamaica launched a bloody assault in May on poor neighbourhoods in the country’s capital city, news outlets in Canada responded with an ignorance and insensitivity that is all too common in their coverage of the Caribbean islands. As with Haiti, Jamaica is portrayed as incomprehensibly violent and not quite civilized. Continue reading
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As "Temporary" Camps Linger, Tensions Rise with Haitian Landowners By Ansel Herz
Thousands of victims of the January earthquake in Haiti are at risk of being displaced for a second time as private landowners throughout the nation’s capital city grow impatient with makeshift tent camps on their properties. At a camp in the dirt parking lot of central Port-au- Prince’s Palais de L’Art events centre, fear and… Continue reading
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