Haiti

Two plotters of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were exposed as DEA informants. Another was unmasked as an FBI informant. Now, newly-released court documents provide the most startling evidence yet linking the conspirators with the US government. A South Florida businessman accused of funding the plot to assassinate former Haitian President Jovenel Moise received legal advice endorsing a mission to capture the head of state from a confidential informant of a US intelligence agency, court documents unveiled in July […]

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In this exclusive interview, Jake Johnston sheds light on the power struggles unfolding in Haiti and the potential implications of U.S. involvement in the nation's affairs.

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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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The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and stop flooding Haiti’s markets with food that can be grown locally.

The post Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti, Now Climate Change Compounds It appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Reducing a humanitarian crisis to an issue of “border security” puts real solutions out of reach.

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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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