Haiti

Lautaro Rivara
“Poor Rich Haiti” or How Imperialists and Local Oligarchy Have Sought to Destroy Agriculture in Haiti
31 Mar 2021
The author unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Black Alliance for Peace: We Fight for Haiti Because We Are Haiti
17 Mar 2021
“We stand with the Haitian people because it is our responsibility as believers in self-determination and people-centered human rights, to do so.”
Mireille Fanon Mendes France
Can We Listen to the Voice of the Haitian People?
17 Mar 2021
The West’s treatment of Haiti confirms that white supremacy has still not abandoned its plan to impose a racially racist, violent, capitalist and imperial world order.
Jemima Pierre
Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers
17 Feb 2021
The horror story in Haiti since 2004 is not really about despotic Black government, but is the consequence and crime of global white rule.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti, September 25, 1991
17 Feb 2021
Almost 20 years ago, the president elected by Haiti’s poor majority gave the United Nations a lesson in the meaning of democracy for historically oppressed peoples.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
17 Feb 2021
Biden is taking the position that the US will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance.
Margaret Flowers
Urgent Solidarity With Haiti Is Needed
17 Feb 2021
“President” Jovenel Moïse has dismantled the democratic institutions of the state and rules unilaterally with the support of the police, military and western allies.
Black Alliance For Peace
For Biden Administration, Black Lives Don’t Matter in Haiti!—A BAP Statement on Haiti
17 Feb 2021
The new US administration has already shown its support for paramilitary terror and political suppression in Haiti.
Kim Ives
Top Haiti Cop Specializes in Counter-Insurgency Intelligence Gathering and Repression
16 Dec 2020
Léon Charles, Haiti’s new national police chief, is a mass killer dedicated to suppressing the nation’s poor majority.
Lautaro Rivara
Haiti and a Long History of Assault
28 Oct 2020
For fifteen years Latin American nations collaborated in the military occupation of Haiti, but have yet to apologize for their crimes.