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 […]
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HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article
by Ezili Dantò If the New York Times applied the “follow the money” journalistic adage, the picture effortless falls into place. The Haiti truth, the names and credentials of who benefits from letting cholera ravage Haiti, earthquake victims die – from all Haiti crisis – their intertwining Boards of Directors, job positions, current and former […]
Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation
Jan. 1 – Another Independence Day Under Occupation “Recall everything I have sacrificed to fly to your defense – relatives, children, wealth, so that now the only riches I possess is your freedom. Recall that my name horrifies all those who are enslavers, and that tyrants and despots everywhere only bring themselves to utter it […]
Bill Clinton has more power in Haiti than Haiti’s president: The Holocaust Continues
“The holocaust in Ayiti continues. The insane imperial narrative and custom of honoring rapists, murderers, torturers, degenerate pedophile maniacs, pillagers, plunderers, enslavers and poverty pimps, starting with Christopher Columbus, who set forth the most prolonged genocides and horrific terrors in recorded human history, continues today. Officialdom honors the UN and UN envoys to Haiti as […]
Haiti’s stolen legacy: Royal Caribbean elevating the slaveholder Marquis de La’Badie ...
Royal Caribbean as the steward of the historic residence and fort of the first President of free black Haiti? …It’s a repugnant notion. The cruise line’s private enclave of “Labadee®” is a name that Royal Caribbean trademarked as a variation of Marquis de La’Badie who settled in Haiti in the 1600’s. That’s right, Marquis de […]
Haiti: The Structural Difficulties of “Building Back Better”
“Even assuming that Haiti had a government that was willing to act in the interests of the majority of its people, it is hard to imagine how it could be expected to bring about significant change because of the inherent difficulty in transforming Haiti’s peripheral position and relative powerlessness vis-a-vis other States and international institutions […]
Martelly: Haiti’s second great disaster
””Cholera democracy formally inaugurated “bad boy’ Mickey Mouse (or, is it fascist Mickey Mussolini) to govern occupied Haiti under newly adopted occupation constitution. Over 80% of Haiti voters disenfranchised in the foreign supported cholera elections…” –Ezili Dantò of HLLN, May 14, 2011 ********** Martelly: Haiti’s second great disaster Haiti’s new president is a friend of […]