Reviving Haiti’s army would harm democracy
Haiti’s government is making plans to revive the country’s disbanded army, an institution guilty of many of the worst crimes ever perpetrated in the country. At the same time, special police units...
View ArticleThe Assault on Democracy in Haiti
Jeb Sprague is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where his research is focused on Haiti. He has written for numerous publications including Al Jazeera, the...
View ArticleHaiti’s Constitutional Horror Show
For the past two weeks massive demonstrations have rocked Haiti, protesting the constitutional changes, the corruption of the Martelly government, and the outrageous cost of living – a general strike...
View ArticlePopular Democracy Under Attack in Haiti
Haitian President Michel Martelly has managed to inspire popular opposition to his regime almost since his election in May 2011. Martelly, who came to office in a grossly unrepresentative process...
View ArticleStop The Attacks on President Aristide and the Lavalas Movement (AFGJ -...
(Source: AFGJ - Alliance for Global Justice) Urgent Action Alert From The Haiti Action Committee: It is nearly two years since the joyous return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, his wife...
View ArticleHaiti profile
A chronology of key events: 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands and names the island Hispaniola, or Little Spain. Former slave Jean-Jacques Dessalines was independent Haiti's first ruler 1496 - Spanish...
View ArticleA judicial crisis erupts in Haiti
While Haiti President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe made the rounds in New York this week, a judicial crisis erupted at home with the firing of a chief prosecutor, the swearing-in...
View ArticleEx-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appears in court, draws crowd
MIAMI -- MIAMI-Along Rue Champ de Mars, he waved to cheering crowds from his slow-moving, police-escorted motorcade. And in Bel Air and St. Martin, gang-infested former strongholds overlooking the...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Haiti’s Secret Police
Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today. President Michel Martelly, who has promised to...
View ArticleHaitian protesters demand president resign, clash with police
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Thousands of Haitians took to the streets on Monday calling for President Michel Martelly to resign, and some protesters scuffled with police as international concern mounts...
View ArticleThe Real Purpose of International Aid to Haiti
Step one for everyone trying to make the world a better place should be listening to those they wish to help. This is certainly true in the case of Haiti, a longtime target of Canadian ‘aid’. But,...
View Article10 Steps to Dictatorship in Haiti
At great personal risk Haitians demonstrated massively in cities throughout the country on September 30 and October 17, calling for President Michel Martelly to step down. Both dates commemorate...
View ArticleRemembering the Overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
This is the third in a series leading up to the 10th anniversary of the February 29 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government in Haiti. Read Part One and Part Two . – YE On February 29,...
View ArticleHaiti prime minister quits following violent protests
Laurent Lamothe has announced he will comply with a commission calling for him to step down ...
View ArticlePM: Haiti to hold delayed vote by early next year
NEW YORK Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Tuesday that his country will hold long overdue elections no later than early next year if several opposition lawmakers don't stand in the way of...
View ArticleHaiti prime minister resigns amid violent anti-government protests
Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced early Sunday that he was resigning along with several ministers in the wake of violent anti-government protests and a commission's call for him to step...
View ArticleIn death, 'Baby Doc' Duvalier cheated justice, victims say
?CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - When Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier made a surprising return to Haiti in 2011 after a quarter-century in exile, some hoped the aging dictator would finally have to answer for the...
View ArticleHaiti: Where Will the Poor Go?
During my last trip to Haiti this June with a delegation of students and human rights observers, we were exposed to the raw violence of the ongoing forced dispersal of the poor. On May 31st, the...
View ArticleFormer Haitian President Aristide in the spotlight amid criminal probe
MIAMI -- For a twice-deposed, twice-exiled leader who longed for home, Haiti's firebrand former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, remains holed up behind closed doors. The reclusive former leader has...
View ArticleOpposition sides claim Haiti elections jeopardized
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Leading opposition factions are alleging that Haiti's presidentially appointed electoral council is stacking the deck in favor of President Michel Martelly, who has scheduled...
View ArticleHaitian PM steps down amid crisis
Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe yesterday announced his resignation after repeated calls for him to step down amid anti-government protests and a political crisis. “I am leaving the post of...
View Article‘Friends’ shouldn’t hold Haiti to low performance standard
Come Jan. 15, Haiti’s bicameral parliament will cease to function as the term of the lower chamber’s 99 members will come to an end, and the Senate, already amputated of one-third of its 30 members,...
View ArticleAs Haiti election delays continue, Aristide remains focus
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was put under house arrest as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into corruption and drug trafficking allegations, is expected to get some...
View ArticleAristide, under house arrest, is expected to be visited by Haiti opposition...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was put under house arrest as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into corruption and drug-trafficking allegations, is expected to get some...
View ArticleAs Haiti election delays continue, Aristides remains focus
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was put under house arrest as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into corruption and drug trafficking allegations, is expected to get some...
View ArticleThe time of torment
For most Haitians, the death of onetime dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier revives painful memories of the era of anguish and fear when he and his equally brutal father ruled the impoverished Caribbean...
View ArticleHaiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go
Once more, we have tasted salt. We have mourned our dead from the earthquake and the cholera epidemic. The collective depression, the temporary zombification has lifted. It is time to evict the...
View ArticleStop the Political Persecution of Aristide and Fanmi Lavalas Once and for All
In March of 2011 I accompanied Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on his trip home to Haiti following years of forced exile in South Africa. I did so in support of Haitian democracy and...
View ArticleDuvalier vs. Aristide
The October 4 death of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in Port-au-Prince has justly garnered world-wide attention. But too much about current Haitian politics has been left out of this...
View Article'Baby Doc' is dead, but Duvalierism lives on
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, Oct. 7: For most Haitians, the death of onetime dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier revives painful memories of the era of anguish and fear...
View Article>Government opponents march through Haiti's capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Several thousand supporters of Haitian opposition factions marched through the capital's congested streets Friday chanting calls for the president's removal amid political...
View ArticleGovernment opponents march through Haiti's capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Several thousand supporters of Haitian opposition factions marched through the capital's congested streets Friday chanting calls for the president's removal amid political...
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