by Ezili Dantò This writing reviews, in two parts, the consequences of US investment in Haiti. It looks at the New York Times investigation into the Caracol industrial park, its anchor tenant, the South Korea’s Sae-A Trading, giving Haiti context with the August 17, 2012 Lakou New York (Kreyòl) interview Dahoud Andre and Manno, the […]
Posts tagged Jean Bertrand Aristide
Haiti: The Handwriting on the Wall
by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour * Haiti: The Handwriting on the Wall for Martelly and the US by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour, Haiti Perspectives, Special Op-Ed written for Ezili’s HLLN, March 21, 2012 Those of us who are following daily what is happening in Haiti are deeply concerned for the future of our country. Things are going […]
Haiti: The media blackout on Aristide’s historic and triumphant return to a celebrity welco...
Haiti: Telling our own stories despite the media blackout on Aristide’s historic and triumphant return to a celebrity welcome In this essay, I post six videos from the alternative news media – four from Democracy Now!, one from Aljazeera dealing with the huge and celebrity welcome for Aristide. The last video is by a young […]
Haiti: Political fallacy that Aristide is like the Duvaliers serves U.S., NGO, foreign & Hai...
Political Fallacies Aristide is as bad as or worse than the Duvaliers by Harry Comeau, HLLN Haiti Perspectives, Jan 22, 2011 It is extensively documented that when a lie is consistently and continuously repeated people tend to believe it. A couple of examples to demonstrate this point: 1) right after Barack Obama’s election, some operatives […]
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 […]