Haiti
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HLLN 30 March, 2010: Delatour, Clinton, Free Trade and the lost of over 830,000 rural jobs to wage slavery sweatshops/Haiti: Stuck in a Trap | What Bill Clinton's Mea Culpa Should Mean
The U.S.-promoted agricultural policies, such as forcing Haitian rice farmers to compete against U.S.-subsidized agribusiness, cost an estimated 830,000 rural jobs. Real jobs where the people of Haiti actually made more, relatively speaking than .38 cents an hour, owned more land, had better shelter and security in the countryside and ate food from the land… Continue reading
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HLLN: Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti | Rich and very poor in Close Quarters in Haiti | Vodou practitioners bid farewell to departed souls (Video)
29 March, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Video: Close Quarters in Haiti nyti.ms/cXQ3P8 Video- Vodou practitioners bid farewell to departed souls www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N1p8cpBSs Photos: Ezili Dant Vodun Remembrance to Honor Quake Victims www.margueritelaurent.com/photogallery/JeteDlo/1.html Video: Haitian artist helps children with arts program bit.ly/8Mz4Z In this post Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti By SIMON ROMERO, Continue reading
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Ezili HLLN's Vodun Remembrance – Honoring quake victims | HLLN Delegation mobilizing Haiti-led Relief/Rebuilding with Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saviour's Day
“Over 300,000 Haitians gone in 33 seconds. Pour libation. Jete Dlo, jete dlo, jete dlo. Into the Ancestors’ hands we place our souls…” Continue reading
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The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground for Afghanistan By Michel Chossudovsky
A recent report in Stars and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conversely, Haiti is also being used as a military training ground for forces without in-theater combat experience. Continue reading
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HLLN 24 March, 2010: Haiti's Great White Hope? by JOHN MAXWELL | What's Clinton's empty apology worth to Haiti?
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet. Continue reading
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Haiti’s Yawning Leadership Vacuum: René Préval Runs his Crisis of Confidence Quietly, if at all
In the aftermath of his nation’s tragedy, President Préval repeatedly was criticized for failing to show leadership in a time of awesome catastrophe. According to Amy Wilentz, at the University of California at Irvine, ‘President René Préval of Haiti is odd…his reaction to the destruction of his country is to walk around with his shoulders… Continue reading
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HLLN: Helping Haitians to work | Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti
Helping Haitians to Work |Editorial, New York Times, Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti Continue reading
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Haiti & Africa: The Horrors of Humanitarian Aid | Bipartisan oppression of Haiti- Clinton/Bush together in an occupied Haiti where majority party and masses excluded, banned from elections since Bush Regime change 2004
USAID paid at least $160 million of its total Haiti-related expenditures to the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, two local U.S. search and rescue teams and, in at least two instances, itself. Tens of millions more went to U.S.-based aid groups…much of that bought food and other necessities for Haitians, often from U.S.… Continue reading
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Haiti’s Earthquake Victims in Peril By Roger Annis
It’s been nearly eight weeks since the devastating earthquake in Haiti and familiar patterns of interference and neglect by the major powers that dominate the country are firmly entrenched. Notwithstanding heroic efforts of ordinary Haitian people, Haitian government officials and agencies, and many international organizations, a grave health risk hovers over the people residing in… Continue reading
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Clinton apologizes for neoliberal policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production…| Haitian NGOs Decry Total Exclusion
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton – now U.N. special envoy to Haiti – … publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti’s rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice. Continue reading
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Georgianne Nienaber: Haitian Women: Rea Dol vs. the Republic of NGOs
Take a walk for ten years in Rea Dol’s shoes and you might learn something about the imperialist attitude of NGOs in Haiti. You will also learn something about tenacity, hope, and the indomitable spirit of the women of Haiti. Haitians have a term for it — ‘Poteau Mitan’ — women are the ‘central pillars’… Continue reading
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The Tonton Macoutes: The Central Nervous System of Haiti’s Reign of Terror
Few countries in the hemisphere have suffered through such an extensive run of unqualified repressive regimes and military dictatorships as Haiti. The nearly thirty years of harsh rule under François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, and his son, Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier that ended in 1986, are likely the most infamous epoch in the painful history of… Continue reading
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Haiti and the Aid Racket: How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation By ASHLEY SMITH
So far, the relief effort has only managed to provide 270,000 people with basic shelters like tents. More than 1 million people still have little access to food and water and have to scrape by to find sustenance. Even worse, because the relief operation is so inefficient, Haitians report that some of the food spends… Continue reading
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HLLN 6 March, 2010 — Missionary Ordered Released, But Silsby Left In Haitian Jail to Wonder…
Missionary Ordered Released, But Silsby Left In Haitian Jail to Wonder | UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children | Haiti’s Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues Continue reading
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HLLN: 5 March, 2010 – Rebuilding Haiti — the Sweatshop Hoax
Betrayal of Haiti’s majority by Liberal Democrats: Rebuilding Haiti — the Sweatshop Hoax | Going against this reprehensible tide, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan calls for the return of President Aristide, inclusion of Haiti’s majority and a National Mobilization for authentic Haitian Relief/Rebuilding Continue reading
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Haiti's Earthquake and Reconstruction Through the Eyes of Many By MARK SCHULLER
While it is absolutely true that Chile, like the U.S., has its share of poverty and inequality, Haiti’s development indicators are and were much worse than Chile’s. For example, Haiti’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP, total value of goods and services) per person was $428 in 2005, while Chile’s per capita GDP was $8,350 in 2007.… Continue reading
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Changing Haiti's Paradigm: Haitians must rebuild Haiti not the failed Internationals
A domestic Marshall Plan must be initiated to rebuild the Haitian capital devastated by a Jan. 12 earthquake, but this plan must come without the colonial mischief that has been used to undermine and destabilize the Western hemisphere’s first independent Black republic. That was the message from panelists at a Feb. 27 Saviours’ Day 2010… Continue reading
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Oil in Haiti, reasons for the US occupation
Danto’s opening line links to Part 1 of the story from her website, and contains a cache of press clippings by her and other Haitian authors, dated October 2009. Both parts are worth their weight in the gold of truth, revealing recent events as part of an ongoing privatization of Haiti’s abundant assets, with Papa… Continue reading
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Our Hands and Help For Haiti By Elaine Brower
Last week my daughter, Tanya, and I went to Haiti. We packed, with the help of some very good friends, 5 large duffle bags of food and medical supplies to carry to the people who were terribly stricken by the January 12th earthquake, and the ensuing aftermath. Continue reading
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Collapsed House, No Number By Beverly Bell
“Collapsed house, no number” is an old expression that Haitians use to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks and mud or shoddy concrete blocks have finally fallen apart. Today that expression could serve as the motto for the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 