Haiti’s Women Food Suppliers Face Mounting Pressures

Rose Hurguelle Point du Jour ROSE HURGUELLE POINT DU JOUR, GPJ HAITI Cedeniese Lexima, a wholesale produce buyer known as a Madan Sara, searches for quality produce at the market in Maniche. The Madan Sara provide a vital service by collecting farmers’ produce and selling it in urban communities. But natural disasters and growing insecurity…

‘Colonial Canada and the Caribbean’

To mark Black History Month, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted a webinar discussion on Canada’s colonial role in the Caribbean, past and present, from Canadian trade relations with the slave plantation economy to gunboat diplomacy and Canadian banking power in the late 1800s. This event featured discussion with four people, two of which are…

The Covert Machinations of Canada in Haiti’s Tragic Destiny

Karl Fluri Haiti, comrades, stands before us as a harrowing testament to the crimes committed by imperialist powers. More than two centuries ago, the brave Haitian people rose up against the chains of French colonialism, reclaiming their freedom from the clutches of oppression. But their audacity to challenge colonial forces came at a heavy price….

The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness

Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population….

UN Secretary General and Quisling Media Renew Push for Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti

Kim Ives UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres traveled to Jamaica on May 15 to try to convince Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness to head a UN-sponsored multinational intervention into Haiti. UN Photo: Jermaine Duncan Trying to cast the Bwa Kale movement as ominous The U.S. and Canada have renewed their pressure on the United Nations…

Haiti: The Peace of the Citizens vs that of the Cemeteries!

Berthony Dupont A “bwa kale” crowd of Haitians armed with machetes and rocks pursue suspected gang members in Port-au-Prince. All observers of the Haitian crisis agree on one point: for the moment; security is the absolute priority, because without it, there can be nothing. Nothing exists and nothing is really possible: no normal life, no…

Haiti: “Sectors of the Police and the Government are Accomplices of the Criminal Gangs”

Carlos Aznarez Henry Boisrolin is a member of the Haitian Democratic Committee in Argentina and a lucid analyst of what is happening in Haiti. We spoke with him about the serious events taking place in his country. What is the situation in Haiti at the moment, since lately we have been receiving information about the…

The U.S Role in Fomenting Violence in Haiti

G. Dunkel A protester shouts anti-government slogans near a burning barricade erected to protest bad police governance in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 26, 2023.  Credit: Odelyn Joseph María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the U.N. Security Council on the current situation in Haiti…

Haiti: A Popular Response to Restore Peace!

Berthony Dupont Demonstrations of violence have always had a bad impact when impunity and recklessness are the rule. What is clear today in Haiti is that the political class has completely failed in its mission and the regime in place has not lifted a finger to ensure access to justice in the face of the…

“Bwa Kale”: A Popular Uprising!

Dan Cohen 14 armed individuals were lynched and burned by the angry population, on the morning of Monday April 24, 2023, at the level of the Canape-Green district, in Port-au-Prince The Bwa Kale movement is rooted in the iconography and zeal of the famous Haitian revolution of 1791-1804, when slaves in Santo Domingo defeated their…

Haiti: The People Take Action

Marie Laurette Numa Armed individuals were lynched and burned by the angry population, on the morning of Monday April 24, 2023, at the level of the Canape Verde district, in Port-au-Prince Just as they took control of the thugs from the police, they can also, with the help of their progressive organizations, take control of…

Haiti, Hunger, and US Prison Imperialism

James Patrick JordanUS deportees in Haitian prisons. (Photo: Jacob Kushner/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) Imposing coups, forcing fake elections, denying asylum claims, and kidnapping a president aren’t enough subjugation for the US to carry out against Haiti. US built prisons are a death trap for thousands of people in that country. Three prisoners in the…

Hunger in Haiti: Made in USA

Greg Dunkel U.S. rice producers have destroyed the livelihoods of many Haitian rice farmers, like the one above, by dumping cheap U.S. rice in Haiti. The United States under enslaver president Thomas Jefferson imposed a blockade of Haiti in 1806, which lasted until 1862. This was the first of a multitude of sanctions the U.S….

American Plan 2.0: The Global Fragility Act Unfolds

Kim Ives People walk past an abandoned police station in the Drouillard neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 7, 2022. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) The Global Fragility Act may wear the humanitarian garb of USAID, but it is fundamentally a military deployment. In the late 1980s, after the fall of Jean–Claude “Baby Doc“ Duvalier…

Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti

Victoria Koski-Karell and Elio Dortilus Now Climate Change Compounds It. The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and stop flooding Haiti’s markets with food that can be grown locally. As the planet faces more climate-driven disasters, we must prioritize the safety and wellbeing of populations most vulnerable to their effects. Extreme heat, droughts, floods…

The Continued Silent Invasion of Haiti

Kerbie Joseph A U.S. Marine and a UN soldier in Haiti during a 2010 deployment. As we demand an end to the U.S. war machine, peace and an end to imperialism everywhere, we have to take the time to talk about the current political situation in Haiti. It has been reported that in coordination with…

In Haiti, the Failed Political Class Has Had its Day

Berthony Dupont The failures of the political class are lamentable. The traditional political parties have proved once again not only their complete disarray, but also their enormous responsibility in the bankruptcy of the country. Therefore, they cannot offer any solution. It is a total fiasco on all the line; an unparalleled bankruptcy at all political…

Haiti is On the Front Lines of a Possible World War III

Berthony Dupont A Haitian demonstrator waves a Russian flag during anti-U.S. protests against de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry last November. Over the past week, the world has lurched ever closer to the brink of World War III, as the U.S. empire continues its desperate attempts to turn back the clock of history and return…