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Haitian diaspora plans anti-Moïse protests in multiple cities across t…

By Sam Bojarski, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 14, 2021 Haitian-Americans in at least five U.S. cities and Haitian-Canadians in Montréal are planning protests on Jan. 15, as compatriots gather to denounce the rule of embattled Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Organizers planning the day of diaspora protests want to let incoming U.S. President Joseph Biden and the in…
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Haiti: Poor neighborhoods' schools close due to violence

By teleSUR, Jan. 14, 2021 Haiti's community organization Koz Pa'm reported that schools in Port-au-Prince's poor neighborhoods have closed due to the rise of criminal gangs. In the Carrefour Feuilles and Solino areas, children are joining armed groups and are committing banditry due to lack of access to education. "Children are in vulnerable conditions. T…
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Review of a reconstruction policy’s failure

By Alain Saint Victor, Haiti Liberté, Jan. 13, 2021 This year marks the 11th anniversary of Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, which not only destroyed a good part of the infrastructure of cities like Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, and Léogane, caused tens of thousands of deaths, but also traumatized Haitians’ emotional state forever. The results were…
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Haiti: Opposition rejects call for referendum and elections

By teleSUR, Jan. 11, 2021 Opposition politicians Sunday rejected the announcement by Haiti's Provisional Electoral Committee (CEP) regarding the holding of a Constitutional referendum and general elections to take place this year. Haiti in Action party (HA) Coordinator and former Senator Youri Latortue described the electoral process as "unserious" and "ab…
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2000 Haitians deported from DR, while public figures demand expulsion

By Onz Chery, Haitian Times, Jan. 6, 2021 Two hundred public figures in the Dominican Republic signed a petition sent to President Luis Abinader that demands the removal of Haitians from their country. The Dominicans’ main reason for the expulsion is because there are too many Haitians in their territory and they can no longer support them. The petition wa…
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How C. L. R. James wrote the definitive history of the Haitian Revolut…

By Viviane Magno, Jacobin, Jan. 4, 2021 In a 1980 interview, C. L. R. James stated that he wanted to be remembered above all for his serious contributions to Marxism. In Making the Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History, Rachel Douglas explores the many facets of the Trinidadian author and offers a fresh interpretation of his unique brand o…
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Award winning documentary "Haiti Betrayed" available for ren…

By Elaine Brière, Haiti Betrayed Website, January 2021 As Canadians, we often take pride in our reputation as AS peacekeepers and defenders of democracy.  But there is a dark side to our foreign policy — a policy that has thwarted the Haitian people’s struggles for freedom and self-determination over the last two decades. In 1986, Haitians joined their vo…
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Canada, Haiti and Venezuela

By Yves Engler, CounterPunch, Jan. 1, 2021

Add this to the “you can’t make this stuff up” file: Canada’s foreign minister recently met his Haitian counterpart, who is part of a de facto administration illegally rewriting the constitution, to discuss Venezuela’s supposed democracy deficiency. Apparently, Ottawa wants a Haitian regime extending its term and criminalizing protest to maintain its support for Juan Guaidó as “constitutional” president of Venezuela.

Last week foreign affairs minister François-Philippe Champagne spoke with his Haitian counterpart Claude Joseph. According to Champagne’s tweet about the conversation, they discussed COVID-19, Haiti’s elections and Venezuela. Presumably, Champagne relayed Ottawa’s position concerning Venezuela’s recent National…

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