The following Democracy Now video and Nation magazine article reveal how a shameless US and its equally shameless diplomatic counterparts from France, Canada, the UN and the Vatican collaborated to keep former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to Haiti after the 2004 coup. Edmond Mulet, a Guatemalan diplomat who served as head of the UN […]
August 3, 2011
Martelly was put in office, not by the people of Haiti, but through the electoral sorcery of the Organization of American States under the direction of the US. Without a real mandate, Martelly is finding how tough it is to form a government and is in a pickle now that the Parliament has formally rejected […]
July 14, 2011
Paul Farmer is a highly-respected physician and a well-known champion of the the people of Haiti, where he has lived most of his adult life. He is founder of Partners-in-Health, a multi-country network of health care and a literal life-saver for the people of Haiti. Farmer is politically astute and over the years has provided […]
July 11, 2011
How the U.S. meddled in Haiti July 7, 2011 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – With the country now in the hands of Michel Martelly, the U.S.-backed candidate who a presidential runoff election earlier this year, Haiti’s crisis remains as difficult as ever–as a […]
June 7, 2011
First printed in the San Francisco Bay View Haiti: The emperor has no votes Posted By Adrian On June 6, 2011 @ 11:14 pm In Haiti and Latin America | 3 Comments The imposition of Martelly, the reconstitution of the army, and the restoration of Duvalier by Charlie Hinton, Haiti Action Committee [1] A little […]
May 23, 2011
Obama’s Latin America Policy: Continuity Without ChangeBy Mark Weisbrot This article was written for and published by the journal, Latin American Perspectives, May 2011. When Latin America’s left presidents watched the campaign of Barack Obama for president in 2008, they thought that they might finally see a U.S. president who would change Washington’s foreign policy […]
May 5, 2011
Martelly: Haiti’s second great disaster Greg Grandin Last Modified: 04 May 2011 19:14 Haiti’s new president is a friend of coup-plotters, fascists, and armed right-wing groups in his country and abroad. No sooner had Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly been confirmed the winner in Haiti’s deeply flawed presidential election than he jumped on a plane and […]
February 8, 2011
Al Jazeera, in a report by Sebastian Walker this evening, reported that President Aristide’s attorney, Ira Kurzban, has been given a passport for Aristide by the Haitian government. Walker confirmed this by speaking to Kurzban as he was heading to the airport in Port-au-Prince to fly back to Miami. There have been many rumors over […]
January 28, 2011
Tomorrow, Hillary Clinton will be in Haiti to tell Jude Celestin to get the hell out of the race for president. The US arranged for Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly to run in the second round election and for Jude Celestin to drop out of the race. Click here for background on how and why. Rather than polite arm twisting, […]
January 27, 2011
Former Haitian President Aristide’s Attorney: Washington Gave “Green Light” for Duvalier’s Arrival in Haiti At the same time, U.S. continued to block exiled President Aristide’s return Posted Jan. 26, 2011 Real Audio MP3 Interview with Ira Kurzban, attorney representing exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, conducted by Scott Harris The return of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby […]
August 12, 2011
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