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 […]
April 26, 2011
Imperialist Agenda in Haiti Exposed by Yves Engler / Dissident Voice, April 19th, 2011 After a deadly earthquake rocked Haiti 15 months ago, most Canadians worried about uncovering those trapped, getting survivors water, and connecting family members. It seems they were concerned about something very different in the halls of power. According to internal documents […]
March 24, 2011
Aristide Returns (The Nation) 20 March 2011 Comments: 0 By Dan Coughlin, the Nation Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s triumphant return to Haiti after seven years of forced exile in South Africa signals a new stage in the Caribbean country’s popular and democratic struggle just as a resurgent right wing prepares to lay electoral claim—for the […]
January 20, 2011
Excellent background and analysis from Kim Ives. I encourage you to share this article widely. A Class Analysis of Baby Doc: Mothballed Playboy Dictator Recalled to Service By Kim Ives The big question Haitians are asking is: who is behind Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s surprise arrival in Haiti with an expired Haitian […]
January 18, 2011
U.S., France, Increase Pressure On Haiti to Accept Their Choices for Presidential Candidates By Mark Weisbrot This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited (UK) on January 18, 2011. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. As the infamous dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returns to Haiti after 25 […]
August 17, 2010
Below is background on the “independence debt,” followed by the Bastille Day video hoax in which an activist, portraying a French government spokesperson, announces France will pay up, and an open letter to French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, imploring him to do the right thing. The background provided below mentions other countries, such as the US, which owe Haiti money […]
June 25, 2010
Global Bonapartism: The G20 and the Planet by Prof. Vijay Prashad Global Research, June 24, 2010 Counterpunch – 2010-06-21 We are left with the politicians who think poorly of us, and who stand back with chaos in their pale old eyes whimpering, “That is not what we wanted. No, it was not to […]
June 14, 2010
Pic above: After the coup, the US-French-Canadian cabal “selected” Haiti’s new leadership: former head of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre (center) became President and Gerard Latortue (right), a former UN functionary who had retired to Boca Raton, FL and had his own TV talk show, became Prime Minister. These two were just what the cabal doctors […]
June 6, 2010
The original coup plotters — the US, France, and Canada — and the occupier, the United Nations, have been trying to deal with a dilemma for the last six years. In 2004, the coup cabal kidnapped the much-loved, democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and appointed a murderous de facto government to replace him — two actions […]
May 1, 2010
May 1, 2010 at 05:07:45 Preparing Haiti for Exploitation and Plunder By Stephen Lendman (about the author) For OpEdNews: Stephen Lendman – Writer Preparing Haiti for Exploitation and Plunder – by Stephen Lendman Over 15 weeks post-quake, Haiti’s imperial takeover is proceeding. It began straightaway after the calamity, Haitians victimized by denied aid, appalling repression, […]
August 12, 2011
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