By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To hear it all, one would think that the Haitian electoral fraud happened yesterday. In fact, the fraud went down many months ago, when a corrupt electoral commission (CEP) with U.S., Canadian and French financial backing, banned the most popular political party Lavalas from the elections.
Continue reading →By Staff, Al Jazeera. Locals in Haiti’s second city of Cap Haitien have clashed with U.N. peacekeepers for a second consecutive day, throwing stones at patrolling teams and calling for their removal from the country after the deaths of at least two people during a protest over an outbreak of cholera that has killed at least 1,000 people. Some Haitians blame Nepalese peacekeepers for the epidemic.
Continue reading →Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.
Continue reading →By Arun Gupta, Z Magazine. Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief.
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