Peoples Dispatch Protesters marched to the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince. Photo. Ted’Actu Amid a fuel shortage crisis and continuing corruption allegations, the popular classes in Haiti have been on the streets daily to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse Thousands have been on the streets across Haiti for the past several weeks, demanding the…
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Haiti: The International Front Positions Itself
Lautaro Rivara, Sociologist and member of the Dessalines Brigade of Solidarity with Haiti The so-called “international community”, so far silent on the serious Haitian crisis, has just made its move. On September 30, a meeting took place between allies of the ruling party, sectors of the political opposition specifically called for their extreme moderation (if…
Crisis in Haiti: Peasant Movements Demand President Moise’s Resignation
Communiqué of the Campesino Platform 4G Kontre The 4G Kontre platform, composed of the peasant movements MPP, Tèt Kole, KROS and MPNKP, extends a warm greeting to all the organisations participating in the Patriotic Forum. Today is one month since more than 250 people inaugurated this historic event in search of a national agreement to…
Haiti, Imperialism and the War Against Petrocaribe
Lautaro Rivara The massive protests in Haiti in July 2018 in response to the increase in fuel prices forced the resignation of Prime Minister, Jack Guy Lafontant. For the last five weeks Haiti has been experiencing a fuel shortage crisis and of other petroleum products. As a consequence, the population has been affected by the…
Shooting at Haitian Parliament Surprises Few as Anti-Government Protests Continue
Jane Regan Hundreds of photos of burning barricades in the streets have been circulating on WhatsApp An Associated Press photographer and a security guard were both injured when a Haitian senator pulled out a gun and started firing outside the parliament this week. Suddenly news outlets around the world remembered Haiti. The “if it bleeds…
Across Haiti, Violent Confrontations Escalate as “Victory” Nears, Opposition Says
Kim Ives The PHTK Sen. Jean Marie Ralph Fethière firing his pistol outside Parliament on Sep 23. He wounded two. Credit: Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters A senator wildly firing his pistol wounded two outside Parliament. Demonstrators marched up to Pétionville, setting fire to cars and a bank. Another building was torched near the Champ de Mars….
Haiti Crisis Worsened by Shortages and Corruption
Lautaro Rivara Haiti is heating up again due to claims of institutionalized corruption, nonstop combustible shortages and rumors of a possible increase in fuel prices which would directly impact the costs of transportation and food. Members of parliament and social movements opposed to the Government believe a measure of this kind would be a real…
The Haiti Patriotic Forum and the Four Challenges of Unity
Lautaro Rivara The levels of popular consciousness and organization, as subjective determinants of any process of social transformation, do not always go hand in hand. Haiti, with its own rhythm, with the peculiarities of its spatial and temporal location in a modernity not yet fully universal, has begun to advance in processes of unity that…
Haiti: “Down with the Rebels Against the Bill of Sale!”
Guy Endore One hundred years ago this fall, on the morning of October 7, 1919, a group of two hundred to three hundred armed Haitian rebels launched an attack on U.S. occupation forces in Port-au-Prince. Wielding “swords, machetes, and pikes,” these cacos (as they were called) entered the city with hopes of national liberation, driven…
Haiti: Fuel Shortages and Price Hikes Spark New Demonstrations
Kim Ives On Sep. 2, demonstrators blocked major roads in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, with burning tires, barricades, and stone-throwing to protest fuel shortages which have choked the country over the past few weeks. The shortages stem from the Haitian government’s non-payment of about $100 million to gas distributors. On several occasions this year, tankers have…
The Fire of the Latin American Right
Javier Tolcachier The flames in the Amazon synthesize the picture of the current political situation in Latin America. According to a recent bulletin from the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research, this year there have been 40,341 fires in the Amazon, the highest number since 2010. There is no doubt that the human and environmental catastrophe…
Haiti Papaye Declaration: Final Resolutions of the Patriotic Forum
1. Introduction From 27 to 31 August 2019, based on an initiative of the 4G Kontre platform, which brings together the peasant organisations MPNKP, Tèt Kole, KROSE and MPP, various organisations from civil society, the trade union movement, the student movement, peasant organisations, women’s organisations, human rights organisations, workers’ organisations, working-class neighbourhoods and political parties,…
