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Trudeau government remains silent on corruption and repression in Hait…

By Yves Engler, Canadian Dimension, August 4, 2020 One way to evaluate the seriousness of the Trudeau government’s stated objectives in seeking to oust Venezuela’s elected government is to examine their policies elsewhere in the region. While the Liberals talk about upholding the “rules-based international order,” democracy and human rights in Venezuela, th…
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‘He hasn’t even been baptized yet,’ says mother of Haiti’s latest vict…

By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, August 4, 2020 Jessica Gervais wants her baby. The infant, Godson Joseph, became Haiti’s latest murder victim Monday when he was killed during a gang ambush just east of the capital near the Haitian-Dominican Republic border in the farming community of Ganthier. A notorious gang linked to several protection rackets, ra…
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This is how community leaders are busting coronavirus myths in Haiti

By Anastasia Moloney, WEF, August 4, 2020 Walking door to door through the crowded streets of a slum neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haitian community leader Reynald Jean is on the front line of efforts to bust entrenched and lethal myths about the coronavirus. One is that hospital patients are being given a deadly injection to increase the number of COVID…
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Electoral Council’s unanimous resignation spells “the end of Jovenel M…

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, July 29, 2020 This week’s mass resignation of Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) will inexorably lead to the fall of President Jovenel Moïse and his replacement by a provisional government, according to a former CEP member, lawyer Jaccéus Joseph, who represented the Human Rights sector on the nine-member body in 2015 und…
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The US occupation of Haiti

By Yves Engler, Common Dreams, July 28, 2020 The only reason the corrupt, repressive and illegitimate Jovenel Moïse is currently president of Haiti is due to US (and Canadian) support. While remembering their past has not prevented history from repeating itself, it is not possible for the descendants of the world’s first successful large-scale slave revolt…
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Canada has been Washington’s assistant in Haiti, not its foil

By Yves Engler, Haiti Liberté, July 27, 2020 Le Devoir’s Christian Rioux is right to highlight the ruinous nature of U.S. power in Haiti. But, he’s wrong to focus on Black American cultural influence or to suggest Québec has challenged U.S. power there. In “Se rat kay kap manje kay,” Rioux lays out his strongly Paris/Francophonie-centric world view. Rioux’…
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Is Haiti’s G9 gang alliance a ticking time bomb?

By Parker Asmann, Insight Crime, July 23, 2020 The architect of a new gang alliance in Haiti has quite a reputation for human rights abuses. Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue,” was first implicated in a massacre during his time as a police officer in the Caribbean nation in November 2017. What began as an anti-gang operation turned into the extrajudicial ex…
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Canada on the wrong side of Bolivia’s fight to restore democracy

By Arnold August, Canadian Dimension, August 11, 2020

The Trudeau government, in concert with the Trump administration and right-wing regional governments throughout Latin America, was instrumental in the 2019 coup against Bolivia’s first Indigenous leader, Evo Morales.

Now-debunked claims of “irregularities” during the October 20 elections were used as a pretext for the crisis after the Washington, DC-based Organization of American States (OAS) conducted an audit showing results from the unofficial, preliminary vote count failed to secure Morales a first-round victory. In response, Canada said it would support the coup administration of Jeanine Añez, a far-right Christian fundamentalist. In 2013, Añez tweeted, “I dream of a Bolivia without satanic indigenous rituals,…

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