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France 24 headline: Washington is Haiti President's only support…

By Samuel Maxime, The Haiti Sentinel, Nov. 26, 2019 A French news agency has reported, as all in Haiti have known for some time, that the only support keeping the deeply embattled Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in power is coming from Washington, D.C.. "Crisis in Haiti: 'The maintenance of Jovenel Moïse in power only has the support of Washington'" is an…
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Haiti’s LGBTQ champion is dead

By Kate Sosin, NewNowNext, Nov. 29, 2019 On Thursday, Haiti’s most prominent LGBTQ rights organization vowed to carry on. Kouraj, or Courage, spent Thanksgiving mourning the suspicious death of their president Charlot Jeudy in the Capital of Port-au-Prince on November 25. Jeudy’s work campaigning for LGBTQ rights in Haiti, the poorest country in the Wester…
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How the OAS has subverted elections in Bolivia and Haiti

By Yves Engler,  Haiti Liberté Nov. 27, 2019 The Organization of American States (OAS), through its election observers and “experts,” has played an important role in subverting democracy in both Bolivia and Haiti. While some may find it hard to believe that this 35-member-state regional body would consciously undermine elections in this hemisphere, its act…
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With schools shuttered, Haiti children also endure crisis

By AFP, Nov. 23, 2019 In the middle of the deadly political unrest that has rocked Haiti for more than two months, another crisis is unfolding -- most schools are closed, leaving Haitian children with nothing to do and their parents flailing to cope. In some homes, parents are trying to teach their own kids, while simultaneously working to assuage their mo…
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On Vertières battle anniversary, demonstrations to demand Jovenel’s re…

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 20, 2019 Marking the 10th straight week of massive nationwide demonstrations and popular-barricade-produced dysfunction, thousands across Haiti marched again on Mon., Nov. 18, 2019 to demand President Jovenel Moïse’s resignation on the 216th anniversary of the Battle of Vertières, the epic and pivotal 1803 clash where barefo…
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New OAS interference in Haiti rejected

By Prensa Latina, Nov. 23, 2019 The Haitian platform Nou pap Domi (We will not sleep) rejected the OAS project to fight corruption in Haiti and questions its alliance with leaders, splashed in cases of embezzlement to the Treasury. The organization, which has been characterized by its criticism of President Jovenel Moïse's management, and his alleged invol…
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Mutiny over cooking charcoal in Haiti prison led to gang rapes, human-…

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov. 22, 2019 It started around noon, when male detainees inside a prison for men and women north of Haiti’s capital heard there was no charcoal or propane gas to cook their food, and began violently protesting prison conditions and attempting to escape. By the time it was over and the jailbreak had been stopped by Hait…
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Canada supports military coup in Bolivia: Second news roundup

Repressive violence is sweeping Bolivia. The Áñez regime must be held to account

By Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Molly Crabapple, John Pilger & others, The Guardian, Nov. 24, 2019

We call upon the international community to stop supporting this government, which is committing alarming human rights abuses

Evo Morales – President of Bolivia from the MAS party (Movimiento al Socialismo, Movement Towards Socialism) – was forced to resign on November 10, in what many observers view as a coup. In the wake of Morales’ resignation, there has been mounting chaos and violence. What is happening in Bolivia is highly undemocratic and we are witnessing some of the worst human rights violations at the hands of the military and the police since the transition to civilian…

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