HONDURAS: Raul Castro Speech to the Rio Group, June 29, 2009

GRANMA
June 29, 2009
The fascist coup d’état against President Zelaya
is an insult to all the peoples
Speech by President Raúl Castro Ruz
in the extraordinary session of the
Rio Group Summit, Managua, June 29, 2009.
Distinguished presidents and ministers:
I shall be brief; there are many heads of state and high-ranking representatives of our governments here who also wish to speak.
A [...]

CUBA, the US, and the OAS – by John Maxwell, Jamaica Observer

John Maxwell’s long memory is a special gift in his most recent article, “Cuba, the US and the OAS.”  In addition, to talking about the OAS decision to rescind the 1962 decision to expel Cuba, Maxwell highlights the US’ terrorist past against countries and leaders of Latin America, including, and especially, Cuba.  Further, he tells [...]

VIDEO: Grenada, Maurice Bishop Presente! – A Comrade Pays Tribute

At the opening of the newly christened, Maurice Bishop International Airport on Friday, May 29, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, paid tribute to his friend and comrade.
PM  Gonsalves told the audience that  the decision to rename the Point Salines International airport after Bishop, was a symbolic gesture that [...]

IN HAITI, ARISTIDE LIVES

LIBERTE
26 May 2009

IN HAITI ARISTIDE LIVES!

by Charlie Hinton
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=315
Four elections prove it.
In 1990 and 2000, overwhelming majorities elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president, but military coups overthrew him both times.
In 2004, the U.S., France, and Canada led an occupation force that kidnapped and exiled him from the Americas. A United Nations military occupation force followed, led by [...]

FIDEL CASTRO ON HAITI: “Nothing Can Be Improvised in Haiti”

There has been much discussion about Haiti in the press and the recent announcement by UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon that former President Bill Clinton will be his special envoy to Haiti.  John Maxwell, columnist for the Jamaica Observer, provided a searing indictment of the US’ entire policy towards Haiti, including the decision to send Clinton [...]

HAITI: Bill Clinton, Haiti’s Great White Hope? by John Maxwell

“Haiti’s Great White Hope?
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, May 24, 2009
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet.
JOHN MAXWELL
The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who [...]

HAITI (videos): United Nations’ Peacekeeping Massacres – Making the 2004 Coup Stick

It’s been over five years since the coup in Haiti in which the President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was kidnapped and dumped in the Central African Republic.  The coup was planned and orchestrated by the US, France, and Canada.  About 200 “rebels,” no doubt financed by the US, made a series of cross border attacks from their [...]

HAITI: Lavalas Flexes Its Muscles by Kevin Pina

Lavalas flexes its muscles in Haiti
by Kevin Pina
President of Haiti Rene Preval appears visibly worried as his security detachment far out numbers voters at the polling station where he cast his ballot.
A nearly empty ballot box sits at a polling station in Port-au-Prince on April 19, 2009. Voters overwhelmingly stayed away from the polls after [...]

HAITI: Perverted Priorities – Corpses, Sham Elections, and Sweatshops

by Regan Boychuck

It is revealing what puts a bee in some Haiti watchers’ bonnets and what they are able to remain silent about. Largely imagined human rights abuses by the Haitian government between 2000 and 2004 got some all hot under the collar, but when thousands were actually being killed after the February 2004 coup, [...]

HAITI: When the US Decided to Overthrow Aristide, Here’s One of the Many Lousy Things It Did

Not one penny from the international financial institutions went to Haiti from 2000 until February 29, 2004, the day that the US put Aristide on a plane and banished him to the Central African Republic. It was not the instability of the Aristide government that caused the IFI’s to withhold funds. It was [...]