Not one penny from the international financial institutions went to Haiti from 2000 until February 29, 2004, the day that the US put Aristide on a plane and banished him to the Central African Republic. It was not the instability of the Aristide government that caused the IFI’s to withhold funds. It was

Today marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of prominent Haitian human rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. Pierre-Antoine is believed to have been abducted in the hours following a meeting he attended with an US investigative delegation focused on human rights abuses in Haiti on the evening of August 12, 2007. He has not

On the third anniversary of Katrina’s flooding of New Orleans, the U.S. and the rest of the world were watching when New Orleans residents were getting evacuated once more.  New Orleans was going to be hit by Hanna and the rest of the series of hurricanes.  Preparations were being made.  Houses were boarded up.  The

By James Petras | Information Clearing House, Oct 5, 2008 Today the acid test for all democrats in North and South America is the issue of the military occupation of Haiti, the economic pillage and denial of elementary political and human rights of the Haitian people. In 2004 a US-led invasion force overthrew the democratically elected government