Monthly archive
An electoral circus for the Haitian diaspora
By Dady Chery, News Junkie Post, Sept. 22, 2015
Haiti has no government. Of the 1,500 elected…
By Antony Lowenstein, Alternet, Sept. 24, 2015
The industrial park in Caracol, northern Haiti, never receives tourists. It’s a collection…
By Roger Annis, Sept. 23, 2015
Posted on Sept. 26, 2015
A laudable radio documentary on CBC falls short in identifying why so much of post-…
By Sakura Saunders, Now (Toronto), Sept. 23, 2015
Posted on Sept. 26, 2015
Editor's note: Barrick Gold and other Canadian mining companies…
By Mila Ivanovic, venezuelanalysis.org, Sept. 17, 2015
Posted on Sept. 23, 2015
Two texts can be of significant importance if we are trying…
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Sept. 19, 2015
Posted in Sept. 20, 2015
In this age of near-total U.S. government secrecy, the truth about…
By Justin Elliott, ProPublica, Sept. 16, 2015
Posted on Sept. 18, 2015
Federal legislation is being unveiled today that would force the…
By John Carroll, Dispatches From Haiti, Sept. 10, 2015
Posted Sept. 18, 2015
Manes, my motorcycle chauffeur, and I left the Delmas area of…
By Haiti Elections Blog, Sept. 17, 2015
Posted Sept. 18, 2015
Haitian Prime Minister Evans Paul is in Washington D.C. to participate in a…
What's behind the Bolivian government's attack on NGOs?
By Emily Achtenberg, NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America), Sept. 3,…
Posted on Sept. 14, 2015
In his new book, 'Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation', Yves Engler continues his groundbreaking…
Guatemala's civil society just did the impossible
By Patricia Davis, The Nation, Sept. 11, 2015
Posted Sept. 13, 2015
Guatemala is at a…
By Amelie Baron, Phys.org, Sept. 10, 2015
Posted on Sept. 13, 2015
Every day, come rain or shine, Yvon Elie checks on the tens of…
By Peter Granitz, Reuters, Sept. 8, 2015
Posted on Sept. 10, 2015
A leading political party in Haiti announced on Tuesday that it was…
By Jake Johnston, VICE news, Sept 6, 2015
Posted on Sept. 9, 2015
On August 9, in the impoverished Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-…
By Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera International, Sept. 4, 2015
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that Ecuadorian villagers and indigenous…
By Anastasia Moloney, Reuters Foundation, August 26, 2015
A severe drought in Haiti has led to acute water shortages, shriveled harvests…
How Bolivia Got Smart and Convinced Poor Farmers to Grow Less Coca
By Samuel Oakford, VICE news, August 19, 2015
continue to VICE…
By Jonathan M. Katz, Politico Magazine, Sept. 2, 2015
t’s hard to find anyone these days who looks back on the U.S.-led response to the…
By CEPR (Center for Economic & Policy Research), August 31, 2015
A local Haitian observation group has released a detailed report from…
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Sept. 8, 2015
Haiti’s Aug. 9 legislative elections were an unmitigated disaster. Most of the official results…