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Tempest member Ashley Smith writes on why the Left must oppose the latest threat of U.S. military intervention in Haiti.
Once again, the U.S. and other imperialist powers are threatening military intervention to impose “order” on Haiti’s spiraling economic, social, and political crises. They (...)
Ashley Smith assesses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent wave of Haitian refugees and finds 200 years of racist history playing out in a south Texas border crossing.
Through his administration’s recent policies towards Haiti and Haitian migrants, President Joe Biden is carrying (...)
In Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, a succession of massacres since 2018 by criminal gangs of inhabitants in several neighbourhoods is denounced by rights organisations as a strategy by the country’s deeply unpopular president, Jovenel Moïse, to terrorise the population into submission. (...)
Haiti’s corrupt, US-backed president is facing massive demonstrations after refusing to step down. US intervention has stifled Haitian democracy and impoverished its people — and the protests are an effort to fight back.
Since February 14, thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets every (...)
Since July 2018, in a context of deteriorating rights and living conditions, Haitians have mobilized with strength and courage against a mode of governance that widely practices corruption and abuse of power. To better understand these mobilizations, we publish a special report prepared by (...)
On 12 January 2010 a powerful earthquake devastated the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The buildings were often badly made, with poor quality cement. About 250,000 people were killed (one person in ten) and hundreds of thousands were injured or missing. Since then, (...)
This paper was presented at the REHMONCO symposium during activities commemorating the earthquake of 12 January 2010, in Montreal.
The originality of the Haitian feminist movement lies in the fact that it can be thought of neither in terms of a wave (first, second or third) , published online (...)
After an earthquake struck in 2010, the US pledged to help rebuild the Caribbean country. A decade later, nothing better symbolises the failure of these efforts than the story of a new port that was promised, but never built.
When Bill and Hillary Clinton travelled to the Caribbean nation of (...)
Mass protests in Haiti have reached a fever pitch. Their target: the country’s venal political class and its self-serving, US-backed president.
An Associated Press photographer and a security guard were both injured when a Haitian senator pulled out a gun and started firing outside the (...)
This Caribbean country is not in debt, it is a creditor. It is France which owes it money. Explanation by Jerome Duval, of CADTM. Translated by Jenny Bright.
Poverty in colonised countries has greatly increased due to a transfer of debt: the debts incurred by the colonial powers to the World (...)
Haiti had yet to recover from decades of natural and not-at-all-natural disasters when Hurricane Matthew struck. Edna Bonhomme provides the background.
With winds reaching 145 miles an hour, the storm wrecked homes, communities and lives, particularly along Haiti’s southwestern coast. (...)
Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, Jesse Hagopian calls on the world to remember the country’s suffering, in an article published at Truthout .
Why have you come to save me? Why have you come to save me? You, Americans, have saved me Who will save me now? Popular song during (...)
Jean-Claude Duvalier, the tyrant who ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986, has died in Haiti at the age of 63. His death provides a moment for political reflection by the Haitian people, especially in view of the reality that so much of Duvalier’s harsh political legacy remains alive and well in the (...)
We still don’t know the exact circumstances of President Aristide’s departure from Haiti last Sunday. Aristide, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, call it a kidnapping. The Bush Administration denies these charges
But one thing seems clear: he did not voluntarily step down from the (...)
It has been 10 years since the February 29, 2004 coup d’etat that ousted the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. Paramilitary groups – including many former members of Haiti’s disbanded army and/or CIA-funded death squads – had engaged in a campaign of violence (...)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 3 2013 (IPS) - Haiti’s minimum wage will nudge up 12 percent on Jan. 1, from 4.65 to 5.23 dollars (or 200 to 225 gourdes) per day. Calculated hourly, it will go from 58 to 65 cents, before taxes.
But the raise will not affect Haiti’s 30,000 assembly factory workers, who are (...)
New York City-On October 9, attorneys from the human rights groups Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI—Office of International Lawyers, located in Port au Prince) and Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and the civil rights law firm Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger, (...)
Global demand for cheap clothing sabotages local garment trade, workers’ rights.
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Workers make T-shirts for export in the SONAPI free-trade industrial zone on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Photo by Isabeau Doucet
PORT-AU-PRINCE—In Haiti, (...)
I just returned from a trip to Haiti. I went there to participate in one congress of the Haitian peasant movement and used the opportunity to visit several regions of the country and the projects that La Via Campesina/ALBA brigade is developing in solidarity with the Haitian people.
I would (...)
Tens of thousands of Haitians spontaneously poured into the streets of Port-au-Prince on the morning of Mar. 12, 2007. President Hugo Chavez had just arrived in Haiti all but unannounced, and a multitude, shrieking and singing with glee, joined him in jogging alongside the motorcade of Haiti’s (...)
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