Haiti

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Sat, 02/03/2024 - 05:13

A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti’s popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.  A spectacular jailbreak in Gonaïves, Haiti in August 2002 saw a bulldozer smash through the local prison walls, allowing armed supporters of Amiot “Cubain” Métayer, a gang leader jailed weeks earlier for harassing Haitian political figures, to overrun the facility. Métayer escaped, as did 158 other prisoners. Among them were perpetrators of the April […]

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Created
Tue, 20/12/2022 - 09:59

Shortly after the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, CEPR launched the Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog. For more than a decade, the blog has tracked multinational aid efforts in Haiti with an eye to ensuring they are oriented toward the needs of the Haitian people, and that aid is not used to undermine Haitians’ […]

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