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By Peter Hallward, first published on January 22, 2010. Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010…
by Deepa Panchang Published in the November, December 2010 issue of NACLA Report Was it naive to think it couldn’t get worse? First,…
Martin Regg Cohn, a deputy editor at the Toronto Star, notes in a column that when Governor General Michaelle Jean mentioned Haiti to Obama…
Market Wire reports that the Minister of International Cooperation, Beverly Oda, will be in Haiti March 15th through 18th. OTTAWA, ONTARIO…
By Nik Barry-Shaw, published in Press for Conversion! magazine, Issue #63, Nov 2008 One 'big lie' that is consistently told about recent…
By Peter Hallward, Press for Conversion, November 2018 December 16, 2007. This article first appeared in the newspaper Haiti Liberté, in…
Aristide and the Violence of Democracy Review of Alex Dupuy’s ‘The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International…
July 15, 2007 (updated September 6, 2007) Every now and then something happens which helps to shed a little light on the way our…
Interview by Peter Hallward, March 2007[i] Guy Philippe was a commander in the Haitian National Police from 1995-2000, and in February…
Complete transcript [Introduction] In the mid 1980s, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was a young parish priest working in an impoverished and…
By Walt Bogdanich and Jenny Nordberg, published in The New York Times, January 29, 2006 The follwoing 2006 article describes the build-…
An appeal to Jack Layton, leader of the federal New Democratic Party, concerning political prisoners in Haiti, written on the eve of…