Haiti
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In Haiti, Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for Aristide By Laura Flynn
The common wisdom, repeated endlessly in the international press since Duvalier’s return, is that Baby Doc’s regime was less repressive than his father’s. But my friend’s mother does not remember it that way. Continue reading
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Haiti aftermath: Self-government still a great fear By Mark Weisbrot
Foreign powers are trying to rob Haitians once again of their democratic rights. More than 200 years after Haiti liberated itself from slavery and from France, the rich countries still seem to have a great fear of Haitians governing themselves. Continue reading
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Cracking the Donor Discourse on Haiti By Kanya D'Almeida
Natural disasters anywhere have already proved to be enormously lucrative for superpowers with the capacity to step in and “rebuilt, recreate and reconstruct”. In Haiti, critics say “disaster capitalism” has taken on a whole new meaning. Continue reading
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Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti By Mark Weisbrot
Haiti’s infamous dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country’s first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington’s policy toward Haiti and our government’s respect for democracy in that country and in the region. Continue reading
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CrossTalk on Haiti: failed aid — RT
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests why aid efforts in Haiti have largely failed. Who is to blame? Is it the UN, the US and its NGOs, or is it the fault of the Haitian people? Continue reading
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OAS Diplomat's Words Rattle Haiti's Occupation Regime By Roger Annis
When the interview turns to questions of aid and earthquake relief, Seitenfus drops a bomb in declaring, “If there is proof of the failure of international aid, it is Haiti.” Charity and aid to Haiti have enfeebled the Haitian state. Continue reading
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The Battle against Cholera by Fidel Castro Ruz
The United Nations, at the instigation of the United States, the creator of poverty and chaos in the Haitian Republic, decided to send into Haiti its forces of occupation, the MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), which, by the way, introduced the cholera epidemic into that sister nation. Continue reading
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Haiti: Recount and Review of Election Tally Shows Massive Irregularities
An independent recount and review of 11,171 tally sheets from Haiti’s November 28 election shows that the outcome of the election is indeterminate. The review, conducted by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), found massive irregularities and errors in the tally. A report detailing the recount’s findings, and methodology, will be made available… Continue reading
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Haiti's Elections: Illegitimately Recounting Fraud By Stephen Lendman
Haiti’s November 28 elections were irremediably fraudulent, farcical and outrageous. The entire process was rigged. New elections, including all excluded parties, are essential, but not planned. Instead, so-called independent OAS experts began recounting verification to legitimize fraud. Continue reading
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Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame By Nina Lakhani
They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America’s doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America’s arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks' lesson on Haiti By Mark Weisbrot
One area of US foreign policy that the WikiLeaks cables help illuminate, which the major media has predictably ignored, is the occupation of Haiti. In 2004, the country’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown for the second time, through an effort led by the United States government. Officials of the constitutional government were jailed… Continue reading
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HPP CALLED FOR THE ANNULMENT OF THE ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER 28, 2010 AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CEP
Success was achieved despite the difficulties encountered in Haiti to produce reports in a timely manner. With the information provided to us by the people and our workers, and their respect for democratic principles in relaying and analyzing the facts as the people reported, our survey is by far the closest to the reality of… Continue reading
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Haitian Election Complete Disaster! Fraud Rampant Everywhere!
2 December, 2010 The $29.6 million spent on wasteful elections could have been spent on water treatment plant, sanitation treatment plant to help save Haitian lives, stop the cholera public health crisis. Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Haitian Elections on Sunday "Neither Free Nor Fair"
Policy analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main said today: “These elections were already highly problematic before the cholera epidemic began to spread. Haiti’s electoral authority — the CEP [Provisional Electoral Council] — suffers from a lack of credibility; legitimate parties have been excluded from participating in the legislative elections, and very… Continue reading
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Haiti: One More Shameful UN Betrayal By Peter Hallward
Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including the head of Harvard University’s microbiology department, cholera specialist John Mekalanos) made up their minds to that effect several weeks ago. Poverty and a lack of rudimentary infrastructure compels much of Haiti’s population… Continue reading
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Haiti: Rebellion grows against occupiers By G. Dunkel
For more than a week, mass protests against the U.N.’s occupation have broken out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haïtien on its northern coast and Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. Protests have also taken place in southern cities like Cayes and in the center of the country in Gonaïve. Continue reading
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Haiti: 80% OF THE POPULATION IS READY TO GO TO THE POLLS
80% of the population is ready to go to the polls and attorney Jean Henry Céant will be president of Haiti with 53% of votes, indicates the survey conducted by the Haitian Priorities Project of the elections of November 28, 2010. Continue reading
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Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000 By Bill Van Auken
The port city, approximately 300 kilometers north of the capital of Port-au-Prince, was still largely paralyzed on Tuesday, with schools, public offices and businesses shut, streets blocked by barricades of burning tires and sporadic gunfire reported. The bridge leading to the city’s airport was blocked with welded metal barriers. Continue reading
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Haiti Cholera Protest Turns Violent
Clashes and gunfire have broken out between protesters and UN troops in Haiti, where a cholera epidemic has claimed over 900 lives in about three weeks. Continue reading
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Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti By Beverly Bell
Haitians have been taking to the streets with increasing frequency since August in calls for redress of the economic and social crisis which has followed the earthquake. The social movements’ demands of the government include the right of those living in internally displaced people’s camps to permanent, humane housing, accessible education and an increase in… Continue reading
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