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Armed Gang Invades Haiti’s Main Courthouse, Further Crippling Justice…

By Juhakenson Blaise, Haiti Liberté, June 22, 2022 Armed bandits took over the Court of First Instance (Palais de Justice) building on Jun. 10 in a brazen confrontation that left one person shot and scores of government prosecutors, judges, and lawyers too afraid to report to work. Workers said members of the “Five Seconds” gang shot a security guard as th…
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Sex for a job: the scandal of Haiti’s exploited US garment workers

By Sophie Cousins, The Guardian, June 23, 2022 Marie says she was less than a month into her job at a garment factory in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, making clothes for a range of well-known US brands, when the factory’s head of security gave her an ultimatum: have sex with him or be fired. The 24-year-old says she had little choice. She relies on…
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Haiti Ranked 173 out of 180 in Environment Management

By Juhakenson Blaise, Haiti Liberté, June 22, 2022 After receiving a score of 26.1 out of 100, Haiti finished in 173rd place in the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) standings of 180 countries. “The 2022 ranking tells us what we already know: our environmental situation is critical, catastrophic,” Edgar Previlon, the executive director of Network…
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Haiti’s Cup of Tears is Filled to the Brim

By Berthony Dupont, Haiti Liberté, June 14, 2022 After so many years of fear, lack of the imagination, and heinous crimes beyond human comprehension, the Haitian people have almost forgotten what it is to be proud of their country. Instead, they feel abandoned, humiliated, and depressed by their impoverished nation, with its underpaid, overexploited worker…
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Biden's Laughable Summit Of The Americas With Jemima Pierre And P…

By The Katie Halper Show, June 14, 2022 Anthropologist Jemima Pierre & Historian Peter James Hudson on the connection between imperialism & capitalism, what The NY Times gets wrong about Haiti, the Summit Of The Americas and more. Time Stamps and bios below. Watch the interview   Jemima Pierre is the Haiti/Americas Co-Coordinator with the Black A…
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The U.S. Must Stop Deporting Haitians

By Celucien L. Joseph, Haiti Liberté, June 14, 2022 More than 25,000 Haitians have been deported back to Haiti since President Biden took office, despite the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and other Washington emissaries publicly acknowledging the nation’s grave crisis, especially in the region surrounding the capital, Port-au-Prince. Ongoing gang violence, street…
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These Haitians Were Children When A US-Funded Project Evicted Them Fro…

By Karla Zabludovsky, Buzzfeed, June 15, 2022 On Oct. 22, 2012, 12-year-old Duone was awash with hope. Just 2 miles from her home, the world’s elite had gathered to inaugurate the Caracol Industrial Park, a mini city dedicated to producing cheap clothes for Americans while heralding a bright future for Haitians. Actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, American f…
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Another nail in coffin for Trudeau’s Latin American strategy

By Yves Engler, June 20, 2022

Gustavo Petro’s election victory in Colombia is a major blow to Justin Trudeau’s bid to bolster pro-empire/corporate governments in the hemisphere. Sunday’s presidential vote strengthens the socialistic, regional integrationist forces Ottawa has sought to undercut.

An ex-rebel fighter, Petro is widely considered Colombia’s first ever left-wing leader. While the senator and former mayor of Bogota has moderated his politics over the years, Petro’s running mate rose to prominence as an activist challenging mining companies. Francia Marquez will also be the first black woman to hold the position of vice-president.

Ottawa would have preferred Petro’s multi-millionaire opponent Rodolfo Hernandez. The Liberals promoted current hard right…

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