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Haiti, Canada, and the Lima Group

By Yves Engler, Haiti Liberté, Feb. 19, 2020 “Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.” The English saying is “birds of a feather flock together.” Translated from Spanish: “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” The folk wisdom that who we hang out with tells a lot about us is reflected in numerous proverbs. Whatever the language, who Ottawa ch…
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Haiti political morass fuels growing crisis of hunger, malnutrition

By Sarah Marsh & Andre Paultre, Al Jazeera, Feb. 19, 2020 Farmhand Celavi Belor has lost so much weight over the past year his clothes hang limply off his angular frame. “Sometimes I go two or three days without eating,” the 41-year-old said as he looked up from hoeing a rocky field in the mountains of northwestern Haiti. The only food Belor, his wife…
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Haiti’s second social revolution

By Kim Ives, Rupture Magazine, Feb. 17, 2020 Unfolding over twelve and a half years beginning in August 1791, history’s first and last successful slave revolution culminated in the founding of Haiti on Jan. 1, 1804. Like those of France (1789), Russia (1917), China (1949), and Cuba (1959), Haiti’s first social revolution was one of humanity’s most importan…
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How the Clintons robbed and destroyed Haiti

By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza, African Exponent, Feb. 18, 2020 The imprint of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton is indelible. The couple’s presence and impact on the Caribbean island have brought nothing but prolonged despair for the Haitians. Their elusive and opaque deals in the country have not done anything to alleviate the country out of poverty depths.…
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UN report questions police, highlights violence in Haiti

By Danica Coto, Associated Press, Feb. 18, 2020 The United Nations issued a scathing report on Tuesday that accused Haitian police of not protecting an impoverished neighborhood from corrupt officers and gang leaders they say shot at people and set fire to homes and cars in a recent three-day attack. The report urged local authorities to prosecute those re…
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Haiti police under fire as number of kidnappings spikes just before Ca…

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Feb. 13, 2020 Haiti police are acknowledging that there is a “spectacular” rise in kidnappings in the country. The new crime wave, which is being amplified by unconfirmed reports on social media of abductions of schoolchildren, churchgoers and the poor, is creating panic among Haitians that is now spreading to the diasp…
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Abrupt firing of zealous anti-corruption czar deepens skepticism aroun…

By Catherine Charlemagne, Haiti Liberté, Feb. 12, 2020 On Wed., Jan. 22, 2020, Haiti learned via a presidential decree published in the official journal Le Moniteur that the new Director General of the government’s Unit for the Fight against Corruption (ULCC) is Rockefeller Vincent. He replaced the flamboyant and, it seems, incorruptible lawyer Claudy Gassa…
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What is shaping Canada’s foreign policy: human rights, democracy or bankers’ bottom-line?

By Yves Engler, Canadian Dimension, Feb. 5, 2020

Last week, Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The self-declared president met with Justin Trudeau along with a number of other high ranking cabinet ministers including Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne. In hopes of “reinvigorating” efforts to bring democracy to Venezuela, Trudeau said, “I commend Interim President Guaidó for the courage and leadership he has shown in his efforts to return democracy to Venezuela, and I offer Canada’s continued support.”

Guaidó was most recently dethroned as leader of Venezuela’s national assembly. While the vote was contested, it represents a significant blow to his year-old claim to be Venezuela’s legitimate president. To shore up his position as…

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