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Znet Article Emersberger: Iachr Denounces Haiti For Political Persecution Of Yvon Neptune

Znet Article, July, 24 2008 Joe Emersberger
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of the Haitian government for the past four years. "...

Znet Article Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment

Znet Article, June, 13 2008 Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...

Znet Article Barry-shaw: Haiti's Big Lie

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Nik Barry-shaw
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With six people killed in the food protests that erupted throughout Haiti in early April, observers immediately began trying to explain why violence had once again shattered the country's two years of apparent stability. Yet rather than blame the...

Znet Article Sprague: Anti-Hunger Protests in Haiti

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Jeb Sprague
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Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes on Thursday, April 3rd, against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and, by April 7, to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many m...

Znet Article Quigley: USA Role in Haiti Hunger Riots

Znet Article, April, 22 2008 Bill Quigley
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Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

Znet Article Emersberger: The Failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti

Znet Article, March, 05 2008 Joe Emersberger
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The way Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments.[1]

Znet Article Hallward: Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?

Znet Article, December, 16 2007 Peter Hallward
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This article first appeared in the newspaper Haiti Liberté, in nine instalments, October-November 2007.[1] Peter Hallward is the author of a new book, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of Containment, which will be released by VE...

Znet Article Emersberger: COHA gets an "F" for their article on Haiti

Znet Article, October, 01 2007 Joe Emersberger
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COHA, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, recently published a piece by one of its research associates, Michael Glenwick, entitled "Préval of Haiti — A Provisional Report Card: Grade B+." In it, Glenwick recycles the smears that contributed to Ha...

Znet Article Annis: The disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine in Haiti

Znet Article, September, 27 2007 Roger Annis
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The disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine in Haiti

Znet Article Hallward: Aristide and the Violence of Democracy

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Peter Hallward
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Part 1 of 2 Go to Part 2 A review of Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community and Haiti. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. ISBN 0-7425-3831-1, 238 + xi pages. The basic argument of Alex Dupuy's ...

Znet Article Hallward: Aristide and the Violence of Democracy

Znet Article, September, 09 2007 Peter Hallward
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Part 2 of 2 Go back to part 1 III Having thus proved to his own satisfaction that in 2001 Fanmi Lavalas sought to monopolise the spoils for political power for itself and itself alone, Dupuy now moves on to make the third and most damaging of hi...

Znet Article Hallward: If stones could float

Znet Article, September, 02 2007 Peter Hallward
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Updated on 6 September 2007[1] Every now and then something happens which helps to shed a little light on the way our newspapers distinguish between what counts as news and what doesn't. Consider how the British press handled two very different d...

Znet Article Ricker: False HOPE for Haiti

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Tom Ricker
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[Note from Haitianalysis Editor: This is an updated article from a piece previously published on the Quixote Center Blog] Earlier this month President Bush certified that Haiti was "prepared" to take advantage of trade preferences extended under...

Znet Article Ssoldz: Aid and Comfort for Torturers:

Znet Article, April, 15 2007 Stephen Ssoldz
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On January 24, 2003, National Guardsman Sean Baker, stationed as a military policeman at GuantÃ

Znet Article Hallward: Insurgency and Betrayal

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Peter Hallward
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Guy Philippe was a commander in the Haitian National Police from 1995-2000, and in February 2004 he led an armed insurgency that helped to overthrow the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Peter Hallward is a professor of philosophy at Middlesex...

Znet Article Elmer: Canada's Counterinsurgency Strategy

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Jon Elmer
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Following closely behind their counterparts in the United States and Britain, Canada's Department of National Defence is preparing a comprehensive counter-insurgency field manual for its soldiers and officers. The manual will guide Canadian Forces...

Znet Article Ledebur: The Shifting Weight of US Funding in Bolivia

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Kathryn Ledebur
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U.S. funding decisions on Bolivia, especially tied to drug control programs, have long shaped policy within South America’s poorest nation. In the past, the threat of funding cuts as a result of “decertification,” a decisio...

Znet Article Agee: The Descent of the US and Rise of Latin America

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Philip Agee
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Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean. For many lonely years Cuba held high the torch through its exemplary programs to provide universal health care ...

Znet Article Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Raúl Zibechi
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In less than two years the troops of MINUSTAH (Mission of the Nations United for the Stabilization of Haiti) perpetrated three massacres in Cite Soleil, an outlying slum of Port au Prince. According to numerous testimonies, barely mentioned by the...

Znet Article Aristide: An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Znet Article, February, 19 2007 Jean-bertrand Aristide
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In the mid-1980s, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was a parish priest working in an impoverished and embattled district of Port-au-Prince. He became the spokesman of a growing popular movement against the series of military regimes that ruled Haiti after...

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