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Who Is This “Haiti” That’s Appealing for Intervention?
Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again. And the East Coast establishment media—which have on occasion remembered that Haiti is a near neighbor and has been ravaged by anti-government...
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Haiti Isn’t Asking for US Intervention
Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again. And the East Coast establishment media — which have on occasion remembered that Haiti is a near neighbor and has been ravaged by anti-government...
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The Other Americans: Haiti’s Political Collapse
Haiti is undergoing one of its most severe prolonged crises—one that has left vast swaths of the capital in the hands of gangs, left journalists and protesters dead, and shut down social services and...
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“Military Intervention Will Birth Military Occupation,” Haitian Activist Warns
The Biden administration is again pushing for military intervention in Haiti, in part due to the fear of Haitian immigrants coming to the United States, but also as a result of an imperialist mindset...
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Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti, Now Climate Change Compounds It
As the planet faces more climate-driven disasters, we must prioritize the safety and wellbeing of populations most vulnerable to their effects. Extreme heat, droughts, floods and storms are becoming...
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Haiti’s Choice is Social Revolution or Foreign Intervention
With long experience of chaos, violence, and dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the verge of new crisis in the form of foreign military intervention. U.S. and United Nations...
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Happy Birthday, Toussaint Louverture
In the great book of history, as well as in the 1960 study that Aimé Césaire dedicated to him, Toussaint Louverture makes his first appearance two years after the storming of the Bastille, at the...
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
“As the people of Haiti continually attest, we women in the Grandans are clear that since the coup d’etat of February 29, 2004, this has been the plan to wipe out the Haitian people and our country. We...
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Biden’s Asylum Policy Continues Tradition of US Cruelty to Haitians
As the repressive Trump-Biden Title 42 asylum policy ended on May 11, migrant rights advocates hoped that humane asylum rules would follow. Title 42, which allowed the U.S. government to expel asylum...
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Two Years Since the Assassination of Haiti’s President
July 7 marked two years since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination. The Office of Civil Protection in Haiti denounced the “unacceptable slowness” of the investigation in Haiti, while calling for...
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Letter From the Haitian People to African Countries
Below is a translation of a letter from Haitian organizations to governments of Africa. Translation by Jill Clark-Gollub. Port-au-Prince, 6 August 2023 Open letter to our sister countries of Africa,...
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“Modern Form of Slavery”: Haitians at Dominican Sugar Plantations Work Under...
We go with Democracy Now! correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila to the Dominican Republic, where many Haitian migrants and their descendants work on sugar plantations under conditions amounting to forced...
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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily initially by US and Canadian troops and subsequently by a multinational force of the United...
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The Kenyan-Led Security Mission in Haiti Raises Many Concerns
In October 2023 the United Nations Security Council voted to send security forces to Haiti to help to stabilize the island nation and restore law and order. The UN press release cites high levels of...
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Imperialism In Black Face
On January 26, 2024, Kenya’s high court deemed its plan to send 1,000 police officers to head up a so-called United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti unconstitutional. This is because there is no...
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Haitian Prime Minister Henry Agrees to Resign as CARICOM Announces Formation...
In a prerecorded message released on social networks just after midnight, Ariel Henry, who has held de facto power in Haiti since shortly after the 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïse, agreed to...
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How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti
A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears...
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Haitian Ruling Families Create and Kill Monsters
The Haitian oligarchy colludes with the U.S., Canada, foreign corporations, and organized crime to exploit the labor and resources of the country. These families pick “black faces” to front...
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Haiti and Honduras have made headlines in the last few weeks. Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking. He faces life in prison. Haiti is...
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What is Haiti to me?
In 1925 the African American and Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen posed the following significant question, what is Africa to me? Cullen was attempting to deal with the image of Africa in the...
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A Message for Haiti’s “Barbecue” Cherizier: Be Like Malcolm
Haiti is on fire now in large part because of the terrorism being inflicted on the First Black Republic by a notorious gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, who goes by the name “Barbecue.” For months a heavily...
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Haitian Community Defenders Fight US-Armed Death Squads and Puppet Governments
As the stars illuminate the dark alleyways of Solino, Ezayi’s heavy beige Timberlands stomp across the cracked concrete. He is on a mission. The night lookouts who stand guard at the western barricades...
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Post-Imperial Entropy
According to a recent United Nations report there are more armed conflicts throughout the world today than during the 2nd World War. These hostilities don’t always concern opposing nations or...
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Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention
Democracy Now! gets an update on the crisis in Haiti, where deadly violence has continued to escalate between armed groups and police fighting for control of the capital Port-au-Prince. The country’s...
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Haiti’s Disintegration and US Foreign Policy
We may be seeing an uptick in news on Haiti in the American mainstream media in the coming months. We may even hear calls for US military intervention in the country. Haiti seems to be literally...
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Debt, Dictatorship, and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way
Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the...
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Trump’s Claims About Haitians Draw From a Centuries-Long Narrative. These...
Call it a mother’s intuition. After former President Donald Trump repeated a vicious smear about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, during his September 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, many...
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Thirty Years Ago, Jean-Bertrand Aristide Returned To Haiti
Thirty years ago, President Aristide, victim of a military putsch, returned to power following the intervention of the United Nations. On December 16, 1990, at the end of an electoral campaign...
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