tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26664383417871043592024-03-14T00:59:22.143-04:00HaitiRozoHaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.comBlogger249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-36123537492342734972016-02-19T03:52:00.000-05:002016-02-19T03:52:15.075-05:00Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti: An interview with Iderle Brénus
From an interview by Beverly Bell
PAPDA, a coalition of nine Haitian organizations, supports rice cooperatives like this one in Northern Haiti as part of its commitment to women's leadership in local agricultural production against the backdrop of increasing land and resource grabs throughout the Caribbean nation. Image courtesy of Salena Tramel, for Grassroots International.
In HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-66863773300226676012016-02-19T03:44:00.002-05:002016-02-19T03:44:20.943-05:00Haiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity
By Nia Imara and Robert Roth*
“Reflecting on struggles everywhere, we came to the conclusion that a people can’t be sovereign if they don’t have the right to vote. No people can retain their dignity if their vote does not count.”
From a Statement Issued by 68 Haitian Grassroots Organizations on January 22, 2016
The voice of Haiti’s popular movement at this critical period inHaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-3952721119833369962016-01-21T18:08:00.004-05:002016-01-21T18:08:45.618-05:00Haiti’s Fraudulent Presidential Frontrunner, Jovel Moïse Seizes Land for His Own Banana Republic
By Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell
This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015 and January 2016. We reached out to Agritrans for comment, but they did not respond.
The frontrunner in Haiti’s rigged election grabbed land from HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-16015324745217573072015-12-22T13:56:00.004-05:002015-12-22T13:56:49.267-05:00#ESSAY, Haiti and the UN’s Endless Peacekeeping Mission: Is UN a Curse for Haiti’s Democracy?
BY WADNER PIERRE
Introduction
Three presidential elections have been organized under the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission watch; all of them had been either marred with irregularities or massive frauds. In 2006, Haitian people had to gain the streets for several weeks to abort an electoral coup pre-engineered by United States-backed de facto government Gerard Latorture. In 2010, HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-86592341562180394222015-12-22T12:18:00.002-05:002015-12-22T12:18:16.624-05:00“The Struggle for Land Justice Knows No Borders”: Corporate Pillaging in Haiti
An interview with Nixon Boumba, Democratic Popular Movement (MODEP) and American Jewish World Service
Edited by Natalie Miller, Other Worlds
Since the earthquake of January, 2010, Haiti has increasingly become a target of extraction and private business development by Haitian and foreign investors. Income and trade – if the wages are livable and the trade is fair – would, of course,HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-70323260126360091982015-12-21T23:25:00.002-05:002016-01-02T17:24:30.270-05:00Opinion: Haiti’s Electoral Shambles, CEP Officials Can Either Fix the
Mess or They Go to Jail
By WADNER PIERRE
This opinion article was originally published by UnlessWecare
Fanmi Lavas supporters protest in the streets of the Port-Au-Prince in support to their candidate Dr. Maryse Narcisse. Photo from Fanmi Lavalas presidential Dr. Maryse Narcisse Facebook page.
For too long, people paid by Haitian people to do their job have not been held accountable. Now, it’s the time for HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-69648501196045659672015-12-19T22:14:00.001-05:002015-12-19T22:14:11.394-05:00Haiti Elections: Catholic Church still Undecided whether to join the Govt.-formed Electoral Commission or Not
BY WADNER PIERRE
This article was originally published by UnlessWeCare
Photo Credit: Reuters.
Nearly two months since Haiti’s Conseil Electoral Provisoire (Electoral Provisional Council), know as the CEP, announced the final results for the first round residential, second round legislative and local elections that plagued with massive frauds. The HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-84239384862134058012015-12-19T22:13:00.002-05:002015-12-19T22:13:39.604-05:00Haiti Elections: Catholic Church still Undecided whether to join the Govt.-formed Electoral Commission or Not
BY WADNER PIERRE
This article was originally published by UnlessWeCare
Photo Credit: Reuters.
Nearly two months since Haiti’s Conseil Electoral Provisoire (Electoral Provisional Council), know as the CEP, announced the final results for the first round residential, second round legislative and local elections that plagued with massive frauds. The HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-60534908032900946622015-12-18T01:41:00.004-05:002015-12-18T01:46:29.903-05:00Haiti: Govt. Formed an Electoral Commission to End Electoral Deadlock; Will the CEP Reschedule the Runoff?
BY WADNER PIERRE
This article was originally published by UnlessWecare.org
Since the CEP published its tainted and most controversial results for the presidential, second round legislative and local elections early last November, thousands have been demonstrated in the streets of Haiti’s largest cities to reclaim a recount of their votes. Religious leaders and international human rights HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-73356016181428050612015-12-10T15:40:00.005-05:002015-12-10T15:42:44.029-05:00Haiti: CEP Failed to its Mission, But an Electoral Miscarriage Can Be Avoided
By Wadner Pierre
This Article was originally published by UnlessWeCare
It has been over a month since Haiti’s Conseil Electoral Provisoire (Electoral Provisory Counsel), known as CEP, published its foreknown controversial fraudulent results for the first round presidential and second round legislative elections. The CEP’s preliminary results for the presidential elections HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-27210685994809078582014-09-14T15:55:00.001-04:002014-09-14T15:55:19.394-04:00 U.S. Actor and Human Rights Activist, Danny Glover and other Human Rights Activists Signed a Letter to Support Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas Movement
Stop
the Attacks on Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas Movement
On August 21, Haitian police wearing black masks and carrying heavy arms
appeared in front of the home of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as a
Haitian judge issued calls to arrest him. Hundreds of people courageously
surrounded the house to protect him.
One week before, President Aristide was HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-64623883534814119372014-08-07T17:50:00.002-04:002014-08-08T02:17:04.012-04:00Loyola Graduate Singer and Songwriter Riva Précil's Band Bohio Music Releases Its First Single Song titled "1492"
By Michelle Karshan Communications
Photo from Riva Précil's Facebook page.
Bohio Music releases first single “1492” -- an upbeat World music song in Haitian Creole incorporating traditional Haitian roots/racine, jazz, Ibo rhythms with a Mali influence.
August 5, 2014, Brooklyn, New York – Monvelyno Alexis and lead singer, Riva Nyri Précil, of the recently formed Bohio Music HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-86399720244459761142014-04-29T09:27:00.002-04:002014-04-29T09:27:36.838-04:00New Report Details Persecution of Public and Private Sector Union Activists in Haiti
by CEPR's Relief and Reconstruction BlogThe Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and its Haiti-based partner Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) have released a report outlining recent cases of persecution of organized workers in Haiti as well as Haitian government complicity in allowing illegal attacks against, and terminations of labor activists to occur without HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-42542004279764634402014-01-25T20:02:00.000-05:002014-01-25T20:02:08.171-05:00New Charges in Dominique Case are meant to Draw Attention Away from Martelly's Narco Controversy
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HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-42227715169687842292014-01-13T14:32:00.000-05:002014-01-13T14:32:07.607-05:00In Memory of those Who Died in Jan 12 Haiti’s Earthquake: A New Direction for a Better Haiti
by Wadner Pierre
Yesterday, in Haiti and around the world, people remembered
the tragic images of dead bodies on the streets of, Haiti’s Capital,
Port-Au-Prince and those who were fortunate enough to survive this natural
tragedy.
On the 4th anniversary of this tragedy, Pope
Francis gave Haiti its first cardinal, Monsignor
Chibly Langlois, the bishop of Southern Haiti, to lead a church HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-80029460977816339742013-12-10T14:56:00.000-05:002013-12-10T15:25:02.372-05:00Nelson Mandel/Madiba (1918-2013): The Leader that Brings the World as One
by Wadner Pierre
President Nelson Mandela brings the world leaders together to honor him in a memorial service that lasts nearly ten hours. At the forefront of the service was President Barack Obama. President Obama will be remembered for his historical, passionate and political speech in a foreign land, and his handshaking with Cuba's president, Raul Castro.
No surprise HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-77758483865100064212013-09-22T09:08:00.000-04:002013-09-22T09:10:02.684-04:00President Obama Told Republicans in Congress He Won't Negotiate Obamacare
By Wadner Pierre
Speaking at the 43rd Annual Congressional Black Caucus Phoenix Awards Dinner, President Obama urged America to pay its debt and to fund his landmark signature, the Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare. The U.S. Supreme last year upheld the Affordable Care Act and made it the law of the land.
He said, “You'd be willing to shut down the HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-88348053151585852302013-01-10T16:14:00.004-05:002013-01-10T16:14:52.609-05:00Billions to Haiti, Little to Haitians
In this photo, lawyer Bill Quigley talks to thousands of SOA Watch supporters in Fort Benning, Ga in Nov. 2012. Eh urged the matchers to keep the pressure on until the School of Americas is closed. Photo by Wadner Pierre.
By Bill Quigley- Originally published on HuffingtonPost
Despite billions in aid that were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-13613134067913489982012-12-02T05:47:00.001-05:002012-12-02T05:47:30.384-05:00SOA Watch: We’re Still there Until the School of Americas Is Closed DEC 2
By Wadner Pierre- originally published by The Maroon
For the first time in two years, a group of Loyola students traveled to a US military- sponsored school in Fort Benning, Ga. to protest the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and their two workers.
Hundreds of thousands protesters continue as rally against the U.S.-sponsored military school in the Fort Benning, Ga. PhotoHaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-52267682363672474062012-10-04T12:54:00.003-04:002012-10-04T12:54:36.739-04:00Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Belen Fernandez- Al Jazeera EnglishBelen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine.
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Haiti's brutal paramilitary campaigns received scant media coverage, while "political violence" was HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-38662011320291869742012-09-30T17:52:00.000-04:002012-09-30T17:53:55.904-04:00Outsiders EXPECT burning tires in Haiti … not accurate reporting
by Kevin Pina
Friday, Sept. 21, saw yet another in a series of large demonstrations across Haiti. The largest protests were registered in Cap Haitien and La Cayes, Haiti’s second and third largest cities, against what many protestors called “the corruption of the Martelly regime.”
Chanting “Down with Martelly and the pink hunger,” referring to President Martelly’s campaign color, Haitians HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-77867575087479419992012-09-30T16:30:00.006-04:002012-09-30T16:42:36.429-04:00Haiti: No more words, people want deeds
BY G. DUNKEL-Workers World.org
Photo by Frantz Etienne
A number of strong, militant protests against the government of Michel Martelly have taken place in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, in the past few weeks. Demonstrators have burned tires and held mass marches. Haitian cops and Minustah — the United Nation’s occupying force in Haiti — using tear gas and live rounds, HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-20205856006720921652012-08-17T12:23:00.002-04:002012-08-17T12:23:36.768-04:00Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
by Jeb Sprague-Monthly Review Press
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In this HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-15677631255775374252012-08-17T12:13:00.004-04:002012-08-17T12:34:35.722-04:00Book Exposes Violent Role of Paramilitaries in Haiti
By Judith Scherrl
Paramilitaries destroyed the free school buses that had been operating in Cap Haitian under Aristide's government. Credit: Judith Scherr, Cap Haitian, Haiti, August 2004.
OAKLAND, California, Aug 16 2012 (IPS) - Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today.
HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2666438341787104359.post-58851458838224078022012-05-12T09:57:00.000-04:002012-05-12T09:57:02.918-04:00Poor Little Rich Haiti to Be Fleeced of Copper-Silver-Gold Via Caracol Deep-Water Port (UPDATED)
By Dady Chery-Haiti Chery
Show me a corporate boss who calls Haiti the “poorest country in the
western hemisphere,” and I’ll show you a con artist preparing to fleece
Haiti. Likewise, show me a western technocrat who bemoans Haiti’s
“dramatic deforestation due to charcoal production” and I’ll show a
bio-pirate or vandal preparing to wreck Haiti’s remaining cloud-forest
and HaitiAnalysishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04940893932950433965noreply@blogger.com0