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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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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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International Colloquium denounces crimes of UN Mission in Haiti
Delegates from over 100 organizations gathered in in Port-au-Prince to bring to account those responsible for the 15 years of UN occupation in Haiti and design a strategy for justice and reparations for the survivors Continue reading
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Haiti: The Epic of a Great Popular Uprising By Carlos Aznarez
For almost two weeks now, the people of Haiti have been the protagonists of a large-scale insurrection. Two weeks, if not two months, two years or two centuries. But despite this, the world continues to ignore the bravery of these women and men who, as Haitian wrestler Henry Boisrolin rightly says, “have nothing left to… Continue reading
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Haiti Facing Worst Crisis Since 1986? By Nancy Roc
“Here we go again in #Haiti. Another messy morning in #PAP where getting gas has become a matter of who you know because pumps are only delivering on a privilege basis. This station at Bois-Patate says it’s only giving diesel to intl organizations”. This tweet from Miami Herald’s Caribbean correspondent, Jacqueline Charles, on April 2,… Continue reading
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Ghosts of Massacre in Haiti Haunt Bolsonaro Government Generals By Leonardo Fernandes
In the early morning of July 6, 2005, troops of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), commanded by the Brazilian army, conducted a “pacification” operation in the largest slum in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, known as Cité Soleil. According to witnesses, some 300 heavily armed men invaded the neighborhood and murdered 63 people, leaving… Continue reading
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Remembering Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haiti freedom fighters
This (July 4, 2012) re-post is dedicated to all the Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè, the most hunted Black man in Haiti stood up against the US occupation behind UN mercenary guns in 2004 for 17-months until he was assassinated by UN multinational guns on July 6, 2005. HLLN honors the life of the Haiti hero for… Continue reading
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Haiti: Thousands Demonstrate Calling for End of UN Occupation and Resignation of President and Prime Minister By Thomas Péralte
On Sat., Mar. 29, 2014, the anniversary of the 1987 Haitian Constitution, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and Haiti’s second largest city, Cap-Haïtien, to demand the unconditional departure of President Michel Joseph Martelly, despite a strange reticence from the Lavalas Family party’s Executive Committee. Continue reading
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Dominican-Haitian Tensions: Wag the Dog or Prelude to Genocide? By Dady Chery
A decision that strips citizenship from over 200,000 Black Dominicans was passed by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23, 2013. This highly flawed ruling designates at least four generations of DR-born individuals who descended from migrant Haitian laborers between 1929 and 2007, as being the offsprings of transients and therefore unqualified for citizenship. Continue reading
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HLLN: UN shoots five bullets into 14 year old unarmed student / Like Haiti, Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty…
3 December 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Honduras has World Bank, IMF to thank for its poverty Its current plight is, for the most part, by design http://bit.ly/1g34OOZ Haitian migrants risk Dominican deportation: Thousands of descendants face expulsion from adopted homeland following court ruling http://aje.me/1846mpk Continue reading
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On Working White Liberals | Paul Farmer, special envoy for criminal UN mission in Haiti | A Free Haiti – Nov. 18th Vertierres Post | Boycott the DR announcements
9 November 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Links: Vertierres – The greatest battle ever fought on this planet http://bit.ly/12PGpmg Legal responsibility of UN for reckless transmission of a contagious disease http://bit.ly/15kOuCZ UN claims to be above the law, says its legal to kill 8000 Haitians with impunity – http://bit.ly/YjAMKs Continue reading
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Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims… Continue reading
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Haiti “Pain Rush”: The Myth of White Superiority, Poverty Pimping NGOs and US Humanitarian Occupation By Ezili Danto
The burning hunger, lack of relief and exploitation of the poor is easily explained by the indigenous Haitians who never saw any part of the $9 billion in his rural town. But the power of the poverty pimping NGOs, the US humanitarian occupation of Haiti is so vast, so multi-layered and interconnected with the myth… Continue reading
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Haiti's New Dictatorship By Justin Podur
What constitutes a dictatorship? Haiti had an election in 2006, which the popular candidate won. It had an election in 2011, which had one of the lowest turnouts in recent history and which was subject to all kinds of external manipulation. Given these elections, is it unfair to call Haiti, a country that suffered 30… Continue reading
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Ezili's HLLN on truth in a time of universal deceit
“These insects invading Haiti are reprobates, racist and narcissistic, analogous to the rich and high-born serial killers conducting their depravity at private clubs – gated compounds left alone by police because of the pathology of power, respect for old money and Ivy League reputations. Continue reading
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The “Enforcers”: MINUSTAH and the Culture of Violence in Port-au-Prince
Although at first glance it may seem that Haitian protests against the presence of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) are due to scattered incidents of violence committed by its members against locals, a close examination reveals a pattern of systematic acts of heavy repression against the population. Continue reading
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Paul – the god – Farmer relieves himself on Haiti's dying cholera victims
Recommended HLLN Links: Video by Mediahacker: MINUSTAH still continuing to foul up Haiti: Haitians Upset With UN Base Runoff into Foul-Smelling Pool Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report: Occupying Wall Street: Demands VS Deeds, Iran in Crosshairs, BA Report for Oct 19, 2011
19 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left This week in Black Agenda Report Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make Continue reading
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The Tyee – How We Helped Pave Haiti's Road to Cholera Hell By Crawford Kilian
On Oct. 18, 2010, Cuban medical personnel in rural Haiti reported they had treated 61 cases of acute watery diarrhea in the previous week. On that same day they had another 28 cases and two deaths. It was a totally avoidable epidemic; worse yet, it was brought to Haiti by the UN peacekeepers who were… 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