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Amistad Replica Visits Cuba to Commemorate Victims of Slavery

March 28, 2010

Amistad Replica Visits Cuba to Commemorate Victims of Slavery March 27, 2010 HAVANA – The U.S. replica of the Spanish schooner Amistad, famous for the 53 African slaves aboard who rebelled in 1839 and won their freedom, docked in the Cuban capital for the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the […]

A Giant Step for Mankind-Made in Haiti: The Bwa Kay Iman Uprising Against Slavery

February 5, 2010

This is an excellent survey of the history of the brave people of Haiti. A photograph of a slave ship in 1860 A Giant Step for Mankind – Made in Haïti The Bwa Kay Iman uprising against slavery By Jean Saint-Vil Global Research, August 11, 2009 There was a time, not so long ago, […]

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

May 25, 2009

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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

May 25, 2009

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“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 […]