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Haiti, which questions ?

27 February 2023 - by Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Boubacar Boris Diop

For many years, Haiti has been destabilized by a political crisis, to which must be added the humanitarian, socio-economic and security crises, to the point that the current Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, appointed two days before the (...)
Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation

31 May 2022 - by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Westenley Alcenat, Juan González, Gerald Horne, Kim Ives

We look in depth at “The Ransom,” a new series in The New York Times that details how France devastated Haiti’s economy by forcing Haiti to pay massive reparations for the loss of slave labor after enslaved Haitians rebelled, founding the world’s (...)
Earthquakes, storms and colonial debt: The need for debt relief in Haiti

1 September 2021 - by Tess Woolfenden

The Caribbean country of Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake in which 250,000 lives were lost and 1.5 million were displaced. Just like many other countries in the Caribbean and around the world, Haiti’s crushing debts are hampering its (...)
Haiti 10 years after the earthquake: the fight for social and economic justice continues

13 January 2020 - by Iolanda Fresnillo

On January 12 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale ripped through Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and other parts of Haiti. More than 1.5 million people, representing 15 per cent of the country’s population, were directly (...)
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town: Resisting the rise of authoritarianism in occupied Haiti

12 June 2019 - by Kolektif Anakawona

Editorial Statement: As protesters prepare for another manifestation on Sunday, June 9, LeftEast publishes this piece on the current events in Haiti by the Anakawona Collective in cooperation with Commune] Guerchang Bastia On February 7, 2019, (...)
Recent unrest reveals continuing revolutionary spirit in Haiti

16 April 2019 - by Abayomi Azikiwe

Mass demonstrations against imperialist hegemony have rocked the western hemisphere’s poorest nation of Haiti. During the month of February, hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets to demonstrate in response to the horrific (...)
The Haitian people revolt, demonstrators control almost all the country

26 July 2018 - by Régine Vinon

Three people were killed on Friday 13 July 2018 during demonstrations against the Haitian government’s decision to increase fuel prices. Journalists saw the bodies of two protesters who were shot in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince during (...)
Haiti: From trafficking to debt

11 November 2017 - by Jérôme Duval

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 (...)
Five Nobel Peace Laureates urge UN to pay off debt to Haiti

14 April 2017 - by Diálogo 2000 – Jubileo sur Argentina

On the eve of the Security Council’s decision to closedown the MINUSTAH, the highly criticized mission it has maintained in Haiti since 2004, five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates call on the UN to ensure reparations and an end to impunity for the (...)
For a free and sovereign Haiti

30 March 2017 - by Collective

Hundreds of popular organizations, networks and movements of Latin America and the Caribbean launched a Week of Solidarity with Haiti, March 15-22, with a petition demanding the total withdrawal of the troops that occupy that country and closure (...)
Changing Haiti with PAPDA’s Ricot Jean-Pierre

31 August 2016 - by Johanna Kougbeadjo

No social and political changes can be achieved without the men and women who dedicate their lives to the improvement of their communities’ living conditions. Ricot Jean-Pierre is one of them. As the program director of our partner the Platform (...)
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT

International condemnation of the murder of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras

8 March 2016 - by Planet Earth

Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokesperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras - Copinh), was murdered on March (...)
The Blood of the Earth : Agriculture, Land Rights, and Haitian History

15 January 2016 - by Beverley Bell, Jean-Pierre Ricot

Yesterday, January 12, on the sixth anniversary of the 7.0 earthquake, Haitians mourned the countless lives lost. Among the many aftershocks they face is disaster capitalism, in which the Haitian elite and foreign corporations - backed by the US (...)
Conflict of Interest: World Bank to Rewrite Haiti Mining Law, while Invested in Mining in Haiti, through the IFC

20 November 2013 - by Mining Awareness

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment wing of the World Bank, has invested in Eurasian Minerals, partner to Newmont Mining in Haiti. As of the end of 2012, the IFC owns 7.1% of Eurasian Minerals stock (see Eurasian (...)
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CADTM Latin America and Caribbean continental assembly was held in Port-au-Prince

4 November 2013 - by CADTM AYNA

A CADTM Latin America and Caribbean continental assembly was held in Port-au-Prince from 31 October to 2 November 2013. Before the assembly, on 29 October, Eric Toussaint gave a conference at Port-au-Prince University on the subject of the (...)
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Press Conference CADTM Abya Yala Nuestra America in Port-au-Prince (Haití)

3 November 2013 - by CADTM AYNA

This press conference took place on 31 October 2013, at the head office of the PAPDA (in English: Haitian platform calling for an alternative development), during the second day of the CADTM AYNA network gathering, in the presence of various (...)
Call to Mobilize

1 June : International Day to Call for the Withdrawal of MINUSTAH from Haiti

Call to Mobilize 1 June 2013 International Day to Call for the Withdrawal of MINUSTAH from Haiti Exactly 9 years ago, on 1 June 2004, military troops of the MINUSTAH, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti invaded the country (...)
Haiti: Asking for the withdrawal of Minustah and cancel debt

2 November 2011 - by Cristiano Morsolin

Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel expressed indignation at the vote to renew the mandate of the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for another year, a decision he indicates that fails to take into account (...)
Repay historic debt to Haiti

27 January 2011 - by Cristiano Morsolin

Haiti’s ex-leader Jean-Claude Duvalier, the dictator known as Baby Doc who was overthrown in 1986, is arrived unexpectedly in the capital Port au Prince from exile in France. Mr Duvalier has been charged with theft and misappropriation of funds (...)
Miami rice: subsidizing poverty creation in Haiti

4 December 2010 - by Probe International

Food aid in Haiti is the real reason the country is struggling to feed itself. Haiti’s inability to feed its own population is often used as an excuse for developed countries and aid agencies to dump food aid on the impoverished country. But a (...)
IMF debt cancellation for Haiti at last (and a new loan)

30 July 2010 - by Nick Dearden

Last week, the International Monetary Fund finally announced the cancellation of all the debts Haiti owes to the Fund. The cancellation will wipe out US $268 million – by far the largest remaining component of Haiti’s debt. The cancellation will (...)
Haiti : a Creditor, Not a Debtor

7 March 2010 - by Naomi Klein

If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full “forgiveness” of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these (...)
’New Haiti,’ Same Corporate Interests

31 January 2010 - by Isabel Macdonald

In the wake of the earthquake that has killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti, the foreign ministers of several countries calling themselves the “Friends of Haiti” met on Monday in Montreal to discuss plans for “building a new Haiti.” (...)
For Haiti : Honor and respect

27 January 2010 - by Anne Cauwel

The disaster that struck Haiti has raised an impressive show of solidarity worldwide. This is good: solidarity is the tenderness of the people! And relief is essential, when everything fails to start with the drinking-water, when you cannot even (...)
Analysis of the military deployment in Haiti following the earthquake of 12 January 2010

26 January 2010 - by Tony Rebecchi

Chronological summary 1914 – The US marines plundered, guns in the hand, the National Bank of Haiti, and transferred the money in the coffers of the Citibank 1915 to 1934 – The US army occupied and exploited Haiti 1934 to 12 January 2010 –Setting (...)