By staff, The Economist. Haiti was significant not just because this was the first mission Brazil commanded, but also because it showed that the government was willing to stretch what until then had been an article of foreign-policy faith: non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Despite all the donors conferences and talk of elections, little has changed in the past five months for Haiti’s homeless and dispossessed, apart from the start of the heavy rains and an increasing repression of their freedom of speech and assembly.
Continue reading →By Hervé Jean Michel, Haiti Liberte. Teleco, the crown jewel of Haiti’s state enterprises, was sold for the fire-sale price of $59 million.
Continue reading →By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Contracts will be granted, moneys will disappear, and spectacular scandals will ensue, but in the end, there will be no reconstruction.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A remarkable aspect of the recent Haitian and Chilean earthquakes was the swift mobilization of military force to protect property instead of persons.
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.
Continue reading →By Richard Seymour, Socialist Worker. Within days of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. “We are there for the long term.” – Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Continue reading →By James Ridgeway, Reader Supported News | Haiti Chery “Since the 1980s, in particular, the United States has helped turn a nation of low-tech subsistence farmers into a dumping ground for American agribusiness.”
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