Haiti
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Democracy, Haitian Style By Stephen Lendman
Except for Aristide’s tenure, what passes for Haitian democracy would make a despot blush, thanks to America’s imperial grip on the hemisphere’s poorest, long-suffering people. Continue reading
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UN TOURISTAH (MINUSTAH) troops dump deadly disease on Black Haiti then blames the victims "preexisting condition"!
Since October 2010 when the UN-imported cholera outbreak was unleashed we knew this new international and imported excrement would kill thousands upon thousands of innocent Haitians, destroy our Artibonite breadbasket further than Clinton’s Arkansa rice-dumping US policies, sweatshop/export economy and unfair trade already has. Continue reading
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Haiti's cholera misery: 5,000 dead – and UN peacekeepers to blame By Guy Adams
Although the panel then dismisses as a mere “hypothesis” suggestions that Nepalese troops brought the bacteria into the country (which had been cholera-free for decades), it concedes that the disease began infecting large numbers of Haitians only when it entered the water supply via their camp’s dysfunctional septic disposal system. Continue reading
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Haiti: Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse By Bev Bell
Martelly wants to bring back the army that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide dismantled in 1995. Since Haiti already has a police force to maintain public order and the country is not expected to go to war, Martelly can have only one aim for reintroducing armed forces: to reclaim the tool that past presidents have used… Continue reading
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Will Martelly Really “Change the System” ?
Upon returning from his three day trip to the U.S. last week, President-elect Joseph Michel Martelly summarized the different meetings he had during a press conference last Tuesday, Apr. 26. Continue reading
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Martelly – Haiti's second great disaster By Greg Grandin
Haiti’s new president is a friend of coup-plotters, fascists, and armed right-wing groups in his country and abroad. Continue reading
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U.N. admits it imported Cholera disease to Haiti | UN-imported cholera to Haiti could affect 800000 people people by year end
Fecal matter from United Nations peacekeepers that was improperly disposed of by a firm contracted by the U.N., along with a poor sanitation system for drinking water, was the cause of the cholera outbreak in Haiti last year that killed more than 4,500 people, a report by a U.N.-appointed panel said on Wednesday. Continue reading
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The Haitian Lazarus By Amy Wilentz
SAY the name Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti this week, and it’s as if the revolutionary slave leaders Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines were still riding over the plains and mountains here, astride Delacroix-worthy steeds, making their descent with sabers drawn upon the vast plantations of the French masters. Continue reading
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“Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits” – Recently Released Documentary Offers Searing Indictment of UN Intervention in Haiti
Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits follows what happened in Haiti after President Aristide was ousted by a coup in February 2004. While Aristide was forcibly flown to Africa, the Multinational Interim Force (MIF) – mainly US, Canadian and French troops – was sent to Haiti under a Security Council mandate, supposedly to offer “humanitarian”… Continue reading
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The stories about the historic return of Aristide the media won't tell | Wyclef Jean's Trouble with the Truth: A Recent History
In this essay, I post six videos from the alternative news media – four from Democracy Now!, one from Aljazeera dealing with the huge and celebrity welcome for Aristide. The last video is by a young Haitian on the March 20th fantasy the US is calling an “election” in Haiti. Continue reading
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Waiting for Aristide – New Documentary Short
In a new documentary short, released today to coincide with the seven-year anniversary of the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti, Independent filmmaker Paul Burke asks Haitians what they would say to President Obama about the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti. Their responses, complied in this six-minute film, can be viewed here Continue reading
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 2
Gina Ulysse: Rushing to action is not the solution to Haiti’s problems. Talking is action and Haitians need to be included in the conversation. Continue reading
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 1
Danny Glover: Haiti’s history and Haiti’s relationship to today’s world Continue reading
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Congresswoman Waters opposes plot to control Haiti by Congresswoman Maxine Waters
The plot to control Haiti has gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. The return of Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to Haiti in the midst of a flawed election is truly shocking. Continue reading
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US warns Aristide not to return from exile By Tom Mellen
Washington warned former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Wednesday not to return from exile ahead of next month’s presidential election. Continue reading
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Haiti Issues New Passport to Ex-Leader Aristide
The Haitian government said it has issued a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, enabling him to end his exile in South Africa and return to Haiti, a government official said. Continue reading
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My Return to Haiti By Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Ever since being driven into exile by the United States in 2004, the democratically elected former president of Haiti has sought to return to his devastated country, now occupied and dominated by foreigners. ‘An exogenous plan of reconstruction – one that is profit-driven, exclusionary, conceived of and implemented by non-Haitians,’ says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ‘cannot reconstruct… Continue reading
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Green Light for the Return of Aristide | Feu vert au retour d'Aristide
The Haitian government said Monday it would not oppose the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Continue reading
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Confirman presencia del ex presidente Jean Bertrand Aristide en Cuba (Aristide in Cuba)
30 January, 2011 — El Brollo.com El ex presidente haitiano, Jean Bertrand Aristide, quien permanece en exilio forzoso desde 2004 se encuentra en Cuba por razones médicas, según confirmó Inmácula Nervil, directora de la Casa de Hermandad Haitiana Bolivariana y miembro del Movimiento Unido Socialista Haitiano que presiona por el regreso del ex presidente a Continue reading
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Manifest Haiti: Monsanto's Destiny By Ryan Stock
“A fabulous Easter gift,” commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil. Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June 4, 2010, roughly 10,000 rural Haitian farmers gathered in Papaye to march seven kilometers to Hinche in… Continue reading
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