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News and Commentary on Haiti

January 13, 2010
The New York Times
   Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead -- The earthquake was the worst in the region in more than 200 years and left the country in a shambles, without electricity or phone service, tangling efforts to provide relief to an estimated 3 million people who the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said had been affected by the quake.
 
July 27, 2006
IJDH
   Half-Hour for Haiti: Ask Your Representative To Support Debt Relief in Haiti -- The Haiti debt cancellation resolution (H.Res. 888) urges the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other international financial institutions to completely cancel Haiti's debt without delays! Haiti is the most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere. Haiti's massive debt burden of $1.4 billion is both unpayable and unjust. Much of Haiti's debt was contracted under 30 years of Duvalier regimes, notorious for human rights abuses. Though the country was added in April to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank's debt relief program, under the program's harmful economic policy conditions, Haiti will not see irrevocable debt cancellation for three or more years.
 
March 14, 2006
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
   Half-Hour for Haiti: Alleged Killers Go Free While Political Prisoners Remain in Jail -- On March 9, at least six police officers accused of participating in the the Grande Ravine Football Massacre were released on their personal recognizance (See Police Accused of Grande Ravine Massacre Released, Haitian Press Agency). The Football Massacre is one of the most brutal and notorious atrocities yet under the Interim Government of Haiti (IGH): on August 20, police and members of a paramilitary group called the Ti Lame Manchet- the Little Machete Army- attacked the crowd at a football (soccer) game, killing at least ten people, wounding dozens more.
 
February 17, 2006
Lexington Herald-Leader
   Preval is the winner in Haiti -- Rene Preval was declared the winner of Haiti's presidential election yesterday under an agreement between the interim government and electoral council, staving off a crisis over last week's disputed vote. With nearly all ballots counted, Preval had been just shy of the 50.1 percent margin needed to avoid a runoff.
 
February 15, 2006
Press Release
   Congresswoman Waters Denounces the Obvious Attempts to Steal the Elections in Haiti and Deny Rene Preval the Presidency -- Today, on Capitol Hill, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35) released a statement on the elections in Haiti. The Congresswoman's statement follows: The obvious attempts to steal the elections in Haiti are blatant and shameful. It is absolutely outrageous that the President Aristide-haters, the anti-Lavalas elites, and the United States Government would so openly and blatantly steal these elections.
 
February 14, 2006
BrickBurner
   Elites Try to Block Democracy in Haiti, Again -- Executive Director of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Jacques Bernard, an appointee of the unconstitutional coup regime’s ‘interim’ Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, indicated Saturday evening that the percentage of votes for Presidential candidate Rene Préval in the February 7 presidential elections was actually lower than originally estimated. This was due to the addition of 72,000 blank ballots.
 
January 29, 2006
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
   Fr. Gerry Released! -- Political prisoner Fr. Gerard-Jean-Juste, 'Fr. Gerry' is right now on a plane in the air from Port-au-Prince to Miami. A cancer center in Florida has agreed to treat his leukemia, so he will get immediate attention for the cancer, as well as for the pneumonia he contracted this week. Fr. Gerry was granted a provisional release, which requires him to return to Haiti after the treatment to face the charges still pending against him.
 
January 09, 2006
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
   MINUSTAH is under significant pressure to take stronger action in Cite Soleil. -- MINUSTAH, the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, is under significant pressure to take stronger action in Cite Soleil. Although the pressure is articulated in terms of fighting crime, past MINUSTAH raids in Cite Soleil have included indiscriminate gunfire which killed or injured many innocent civilians. Please fax or call the head of MINUSTAH, Juan Gabriel Valdes to say that continued 'collateral damage' is unacceptable, and demand that any MINUSTAH operations in Cite Soleil scrupulously respect the rights of civilians under the Haitian Constitution and international law, including the right to life.
 
June 03, 2005
Haiti Information Project
   Spokesman for Aristide's Lavalas movement condemns violence in Haiti -- A spokesman for Aristide's Lavalas movement in Haiti's capital, Mr. Samba Boukman, condemned an attack and firebombing against a popular market in Port au Prince this last Wednesday. At least 10 people are reported to have died in the blaze that was started after unidentified gunman began shooting in the area.
 
May 02, 2005
The Nation magazine (U.S.S)
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism -- Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration's doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward.
 
April 24, 2005
Jamaica Observer
   The company they keep -- The programme was Talking Point, and I had phoned the BBC in answer to their invitation to ask questions of Mark Malloch Brown, the chief of staff of the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
 
April 24, 2005
Baltimore Sun
   Restore Haitian democracy -- PRESIDENT BUSH says his foreign policy goal is to bring freedom to the world, but perhaps events in Haiti will reveal what kind of freedom Mr. Bush has in mind.
 
April 23, 2005
Miami Herald
   HAITIAN POLITICS -- Haitian priest and former Miami activist the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste said two top U.S. diplomats need to resign amid reports the United States sold arms to Haiti.
 
April 21, 2005
Democracy Now
    Haiti's Aristide Calls For His Restoration to Power -- We hear excerpts from a rare public appearance by ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We also talk to Rep. Maxine Waters and Kate Orlovsky, student director at the Hastings Human Rights Project for Haiti.
 
April 21, 2005
Democracy Now
   Haiti's Aristide Calls For His Restoration to Power -- Excerpts from a rare public appearance by ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Rep. Maxine Waters and Kate Orlovsky, student director at the Hastings Human Rights Project for Haiti. The group has just filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Haiti's former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune.
 
April 19, 2005
Counter Punch
   Justice and Injustice in Haiti -- About the controversy sparked by the Haitian government's efforts to reign in unruly protestors. A series of demonstrations, both for and against the constitutional government, had degenerated into low-level violence and destruction of property.
 
April 17, 2005
The Independent (UK)
   Bush administration 'broke its own embargo to sell arms to Haiti police' -- The Bush administration has been accused of ignoring its own arms embargo and overseeing the sale of $7m-worth (£3.7m) of weapons to the Haitian government to equip its police force.
 
April 13, 2005
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
    Time for Apologies -- At the end of March the international GNO Global Justice Center and the Human Rights Program of Harvard University released a report that shook the trust of the international community in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), commanded by Brazilian troops.
 
March 13, 2005
Philadelphia Inquirer
    A witness to horrors in Haiti -- A Philadelphia immigration lawyer, Griffin had visited Haiti many times on humanitarian missions with his church. But on a trip in November, increasingly aware of Haiti's political chaos, he thought the camera might be useful.
 
March 04, 2005
Houston Chronicle
   In Haiti, 'hunger in dark places' is real ... and ignored -- President Bush's State of the Union speech was long on "the force of human freedom," which he called "the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul." Yet just 600 miles from Florida, that hunger and longing is being met every day with bullets, beatings, arrests and rape by the unelected, unconstitutional government in Haiti. That government's biggest supporter is the administration of George W. Bush.
 
January 25, 2005
Globe Correspondent
   Loans seen as no solution for Haiti's poorest -- THOMONDE, Haiti -- Despite political conflict that led to the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide last February and the freezing of hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid, microfinance initiatives have flourished in Haiti in recent years.
 
January 01, 2005
HAITI PROGRES- Vol. 23, No. 4
    UN TRYING TO CARRY OUT WASHINGTON'S AGENDA IN HAITI -- The recent posture of the United Nations appears to be one that is finally yielding to United States pressure to be more forceful and "aggressive" in its "disarmament" efforts.
 
December 19, 2004
The Observer
   Revealed: Haiti bloodbath that left dozens dead in jail -- At first the smoke billowing from the national penitentiary in the Haitiancapital seemed of no consequence.
 
November 29, 2004
Miami Herald
   Anarchy reigns in streets of Haiti -- Gangs have brought anarchy to Haiti's poorest areas. Police and peacekeepers mostly stay away, and aid cannot get in.
 
November 29, 2004
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
   Political Prisoner Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste Released -- November 29, 2004, Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Sainte Claire Catholic Church in Delmas, Haiti, was released after almost seven weeks of illegal detention.
 
November 23, 2004
AHP News
   More than 60 young people were murdered in Port-au-Prince during September and October alone, according to Justice and Peace -- The National Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Church denounced on Tuesday the climate of violence gripping the Haitian capital.
 
November 20, 2004
Sun-Sentinel
   Haiti is worse than rock bottom as interim leaders unable to stem poverty, crime -- Life in Haiti worsens under the interim government.
 
November 19, 2004
Reuters AlertNet Foundation
   New bloodshed erupts as Haiti police, gangs clash -- Up to a dozen people were killed in raids by police on armed gangs in slum areas of the Haitian capital.
 
November 19, 2004
Associated Press
   Family Seeks Answers in Haitian's Death -- Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat described a "personal nightmare" involving the uncle who raised her in Haiti and died this month in U.S. custody after arriving in Miami.
 
November 17, 2004
Reuters
   UN pleads for funds for devastated Haiti -- U.N. appealed to donors to release $1 billion in funds for Haiti
 


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