Why is Cuba, Venezuela, the African Union, Latin America and the CARICOM nations turning a blind eye to the US occupation of Haiti, even participating in the pillage and plunder? Is this what Venezuelan president Maduro calls ‘supporting revolution?’… Tourism, an export economy, sweatshops and privatization of pubic assets are not development for Haiti, Africa, […]
Posts in category Haiti Perspectives
Jean Lamy Matulnes Speaks on Ile a Vache Land Grab in Haiti
In this interview, Haiti’s Jean Maltunes Lamy describes the reign of terror at Ile a Vache against the voiceless, vulnerable people there who built and reforested the island. The Ile a Vache population ask that the May 10, 2013 presidential decree making the offshore island in Haiti a zone of tourism development and public utility […]
Matulnes Speaks: Before jailed by Martelly-Lamothe Haiti dictatorship (Kreyol transcription)
Fòk Devlopman Ilavach la konsidere moun dabò -Haiti development must take the people into account first. This post is the companion audio transcription piece to Haiti: Denounce Venezuela 27 million in Ile a Vache colonial project. Listen to Jean Matulnes/Jan Matilnès speak before he was jailed by the Martelly-Lamothe government. Kreyòl transcription for HLLN of […]
Tourism is not development: Haiti, Liberate Yourself!
Tourism is not development, liberate yourself from that idea, Haiti! Responding to the urgent call for help from local Haitians living on the offshore island, Ilavach (Ãle à Vache), I wrote an article this week to sound the alarm and get the world to pay attention to what’s happening to the people at Ãle à […]
Gaye toupatou: Koukouwouj Pou Nou Bloke Masak Mateli-Lamòt sou Popilasyon Ilavach La
Gaye toupatou: Koukouwouj Pou Nou Bloke Masak Mateli-Lamòt sou Popilasyon Ilavach La (Il a Vache urgent action alert, part 1 in English is here) Ilavache: Privatizing public wealth to give it to the Rich, Exterminate the PoorEzili Dantò Note:The Kreyòl text and audio broadcast here give voice to the people at Ilavach, Haiti who are […]
US occupiers in Haiti privatizing Ile a Vache – Chronicles of a coming massacre
The oligarchs will use every tool at their disposal – military, media, the NGOs, money, religion. They’ll use the very people who are protesting – their protest – to service imperialism. The US embassy has thousands of agents, the UN and USAID forces in Haiti, there solely to keep the US occupation going. Disenfranchise Haiti […]