by Abe Sauer, January 20th, 2011 | Original source: The AWL ********************* “…Haiti that’s become a massively swelled teat on which NGOs profitably suckle. Overall, Haiti has become one of the greatest money laundering operations in history, an island engine turning public funds into private profits. What’s more, U.S. taxpayer dollars are, against Presidential directive, […]
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Congresswoman Waters Opposes Plot to Control Haiti
Source: Press Releases Contact: Sean Bartlett (202) 225-2201 Congresswoman Waters Opposes Plot to Control Haiti Urges Prosecution of Duvalier for Human Rights Violations and New Elections that Respect the Will of the Haitian People Washington, Jan 18, 2011 – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) issued the following statement today, upon learning that Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude […]
Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti
Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti by Mark Weisbrot, Jan. 20, 2011 Source: The Center for Economic and Policy Research Haiti’s infamous dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country’s first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington’s policy toward […]
The Return of Dictatorship to Haiti: Jean Claude Duvalier
Haiti – Politic : CRED position facing the back of Duvalier 18/01/2011 08:19:31 | Original Source: Haiti Libre Recommended HLLN Links for Jan 17, 2011 on the Return of Dictator, Jean Claude Duvalier: Listen to this interview about the return of Duvalier with Ezili Dantò of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network. Obama’s change in Haiti: […]
Ezili Danto on Haiti priorities and accountability
Ezili Dantò interview with Wiatta on Wrfg.org, Atlanta on the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Broadcast, Jan. 13, 2011, (34:21 minutes) – listen here: **************** “Haiti Elections” on The Sunday Show on KPFA: Kris Welch interviews Ezili Dantò and Nic Rossier, Dec. 5, 2010 (55:33 minutes) – listen here: ************** Ezili Dantò on […]
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer Thursday 13 January 2011 | Source – Truthout by: Jordan Flaherty, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis A Haitian girl sits in a displaced persons camp in December of 2010. (Photo: Internews Network) One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, […]
The Nation: NGOs Have Failed Haiti
The Nation: NGOs Have Failed Haiti by Isabeau Doucet January 13, 2011, Source: The Nation Isabeau Doucet is a freelance journalist working in Port-au Prince, Haiti. Joe Raedle/Getty Images People attend a prayer service near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince in memory of those killed a year ago in the massive earthquake in Haiti. With […]
Haitians Speak about Haiti: Jean Saint-Vil, Patrick Elie, Alex Dupuy and Edwidge Dandicat
One Year After Earthquake, Haitian Population Treated as a Threat, Not an Asset Source: Democracy Now! January 12, 2011 On the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, we speak with Ottawa-based Haitian writer and activist, Jean Saint-Vil. “One year after the earthquake, we are seeing the Haitian population being treated and seen as a threat, […]