ACTION ALERT FROM HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
Protest brutal attack on Haitian street vendors by UN soldiers!
Bullet holes are visible in this photo from UN assault on Haitian street vendors
On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was [...]
Guy Philippe was one of two primary leaders of a paramilitary group that the US housed, trained and armed in the Dominican Republic to make cross-border attacks into Haiti beginning in 2002 in order to kill their countrymen aligned with the administration of the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last year, he started shooting his [...]
This is an excellent and comprehensive summary of the “weak state” prescription that the international community has been administering to Haiti for years. Now, Haiti is more sick than ever. Darren Ell is right — the only way this will stop is for the citizens of US, France, and Canada to learn [...]
On February 29, 2004, Bush’s Deputy Ambassador in Haiti, Luis Moreno, and US Special Forces kidnapped the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and put him on a plane to the Central African Republic. Bush’s initial objective in Haiti had been achieved — the guy who bucked the neoliberal system was out of the way. [...]
P. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Pretoria, South Africa
Dear Friends,
May the spirit of International Day in [...]
Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit
HIP- The Lavalas movement of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti simply will not quit. Despite pronouncements by the United Nations that the movement was dead nearly six months ago, over ten thousand supporters demonstrated in Port au Prince this last February 29, 2008. The date was auspicious in [...]
If you want to learn about Haiti, The Black Jacobins by CLR James is the best and first book you should read.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yang030208.html
The Black Jacobins 70 Years Later
by Manuel Yang
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Touissaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. This classic account of the Haitian Revolution [...]
The Cuban ambassador to Nigeria called for the restructure of the UN in order to break the vise grip that the Security Council and especially the permanent members of the Council have over United Nations operations. Of course, the US is the main “gripper” here. Cuba is the perfect country to raise this [...]
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4905
Excerpt from article:
“Another violent military operation occurred in July 2005, when an estimated 22,000 bullet holes were found after an operation by MINUSTAH in Cite Soleil. Reports by HIP cited accounts by residents that the wounded and dead were found inside their own homes. These accounts charge that soldiers shot at people indiscriminately, which had [...]
This is an excellent compilation of the many facets of the RSF campaign against President Chavez — with a French twist. This is one to file away for future use.
Reporters Without Frontiers against Hugo Chávez
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/16220
January, 15 2008By Salim Lamrani
Source: Tlaxcala
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Taking advantage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’ state visit to [...]
