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Op-Ed: In Haiti, the battle for leadership is really a battle for loot

By Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 2021 Another Haitian chief executive may be about to take a fall. In the space of the last four days, Ariel Henry, de facto leader of Haiti since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise on July 7, has been through a grinding and spewing political mill focused on the probe of the killing and whether he had a…
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Prosecutor demands charges against PM Ariel Henry for involvement in M…

By Sam Bojarski & Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Sept. 15, 2021 Haiti’s chief prosecutor has called for charges against Haitian Prime Minister and de facto leader Ariel Henry for his alleged role in the Jul. 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Henry is now not allowed to leave Haiti following a travel ban order signed by Claude and addressed to Haiti…
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Advocates 'in utter disbelief' after Biden resumes Haitian r…

By Rafael Bernal, The Hill, Sept. 16, 2021 Human rights advocates are enraged at the Biden administration for resuming repatriation flights to Haiti, despite the country's ongoing political, economic and environmental disasters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday expelled 86 Haitian nationals from the United States and flew them back to…
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Haiti PM Henry replaces justice minister after sacking prosecutor

By Al Jazeera, Sept 16, 2021 Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has replaced the country’s justice minister, days after firing a chief public prosecutor who had called for Henry to be charged in connection with the July assassination of President Jovenel Moise. The latest fractures in a deepening political crisis in the Caribbean nation also included the r…
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The U.S. stole billions from Haiti. It’s time to give It back.

By Joseph Blocher & Mitu Gulati, Slate, Sept. 14, 2021 Haiti is in desperate need after a devastating earthquake, a hurricane, a presidential assassination, and not enough vaccines to stop the delta variant. International aid is pouring in, which is all good, but not good enough. It is time to ask about what Haiti is owed—not in terms of international…
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How the U.S. came to dominate Haiti: Military occupation

By Peter James Hudson, Haiti Liberté Sept. 8, 2021 The last of three installments  (Second part) Chapter Three: Financial Occupations The reaction to the [U.S. Marines’] removal of the gold [from the vaults of the Banque nationale de la République d’Haïti] was as [Arthur] Bailly-Blanchard [the U.S. Minister to Port-au-Prince] predicted. The news quickly s…
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Haitians can’t trust aid from NGOs or their own government

By Jason Johnson, Slate, Sept. 4, 2021 The island nation of Haiti is just beginning to catch its breath after a massive August earthquake, and that catastrophe struck just a few weeks after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, which left the government in a state of chaos. While Haiti could use international aid in its recovery, the country has suf…
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How Canadian resource companies & our foreign ministry drove Colombians towards mass resistance to violent neoliberalism

By Daniel Xie, The Canada Files, Sept. 3, 2021

Since April 28, 2021, Colombia has been struck with a series of ongoing protests against the healthcare reforms proposed by President Iván Duque Márquez, supposedly in response to COVID.  

In reality, these healthcare reforms were actually tax reforms that would have—under the guise of funding Colombia’s COVID recovery—provided massive breaks for corporations while overtaxing the impoverished working class. Opposition to these proposed tax reforms resulted in an eruption of mass protests across Colombia.  

These protests drew massive support from Colombian labour unions, student activists, along with social movements representing the marginalized Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities. Protestors demanded an end…

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