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France 24 headline: Washington is Haiti President's only support for staying in power
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…
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…
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…
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…
On Vertières battle anniversary, demonstrations to demand Jovenel’s resignation continue
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 20, 2019 Marking the 10th straight week of massive nationwide demonstrations and popular-barricade-…
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…
Mutiny over cooking charcoal in Haiti prison led to gang rapes, human-rights groups say
By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov. 22, 2019 It started around noon, when male detainees inside a prison for men and women north of…
A change is needed In Canada’s Haiti policy
By Marie Dimanche, Frantz André, & Yves Engler, Haitian Times, Nov. 21, 2019 Protesters recently threw a Molotov cocktail and burnt…
Montreal's Haitian community calls on president to step down, Canada to step up
By Matt Grillo, CTV News, Nov. 17, 2019 As protests continue to rage in Haiti over government corruption and the cost of fuel members of…
Haiti protests summon spirit of the Haitian Revolution to condemn a president tainted by scandal
By Julia Gaffield, Public Radio International (PRI), Nov. 15, 2019 A radical, unlikely figure has emerged as the icon of Haiti’s months-…
Podcast: Haiti is facing a humanitarian crisis. This doctor Is on the front lines.
By Amarica Rafanelli, Direct Relief, Nov. 12, 2019 Haiti is in the throes of a humanitarian disaster provoked by months of violent…
What Haiti taught me about good-intentioned policies and their colonial power structures
By Chantal Cole, opencanada.org, Nov. 6, 2019 After years of learning about Haiti, I knew that when and if life presented me with the…
Video: Maduro receives apology for Haiti's vote against Venezuela from Jean-Charles Moïse
By Samuel Maxime, Haiti Sentinel, Nov. 14, 2019 Former Senator Jean-Charles Moïse, one of the influential leaders of the Haitian…
Haiti is awash in illegal guns. Could U.S. policy be to blame?
By Taylor Dolven & Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, Nov. 14, 2019 As the mystery surrounding an American Airlines passenger arrested…
Opposition coalitions unite around roadmap to replace President, but Lavalas abstains
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Nov. 13, 2019 Over the weekend of Nov. 8-10, 2019 at Port-au-Prince’s Marriott Hotel, the five principal…
Bernard Belle-Fleur, latest journalist to be gunned down in Haiti
By Samuel Maxime, Haiti Sentinel, Nov. 12, 2019 Journalist Bernard Belle-Fleur, operator of Télé Soleil and Radio Nationale d'Haïti, was…