Haiti
: Jesse Hagopian Haiti's broken school system is still buried under tons of rubble. But for some, the earthquake was a big opportunity.
September 8, 2011
: Kim Ives A new president has been installed in Haiti with the backing of the U.S., but the country's crisis remains as dire as ever.
July 7, 2011
: Kim Ives Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return to the country from which he was kidnapped seven years ago will transform Haitian politics.
March 23, 2011
: Mark Weisbrot The return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, in the context of a shifting balance of power, has Washington on high alert.
February 17, 2011
: Isabeau Doucet The return of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier brings the nightmare of Haiti’s past together with its terrible present.
January 19, 2011
: Ashley Smith By every measure, the U.S. and other powers, the United Nations and NGOs have failed the Haitian people in the year since the catastrophic earthquake.
January 13, 2011
: Jesse Hagopian People around the world donated to help victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake last year--but most of the money has yet to reach the Haitian people.
January 12, 2011
A group of Haitian solidarity activists picketed United Nations headquarters in New York City to call for an end to the occupation.
December 15, 2010
: Kim Ives The announcement of preliminary results from Haiti's disputed November 28 election ignited demonstrations and barricades.
December 13, 2010
: Kim Ives If fraud and corruption are widely reported in Haiti, why are the U.S. and UN calling the elections a "step in the right direction"?
December 6, 2010
: Ashley Smith Ten months after a devastating earthquake, Haiti has been left helpless against the threat of disease and hurricanes--both of which struck in the last month.
November 12, 2010
Nineteen years after the Cédras military bandits resumed power in Haiti, a woman's group occupied the streets in Port-au-Prince to mark the occasion.
October 5, 2010
France should pay back the 90 million gold francs extorted from Haiti 200 years ago as part of its "independence debt."
August 18, 2010
: Charlie Hinton Multimillionaire pop star Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti, but he's no friend of the country's popular movement.
August 12, 2010
: Ashley Smith Bill Clinton is celebrated for his "good works" in Haiti, but ordinary Haitians have a different view of what he's been up to.
August 5, 2010
: Ashley Smith Six months after Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world's most powerful governments to provide billions in aid are unfulfilled.
August 2, 2010
: Hervé Junior Bijou Many Haitians who were injured or made homeless by the quake are now scattered all over the country, without access to medical care or aid.
May 11, 2010
: Jesse Hagopian Since my family and I survived the earthquake in Haiti, I have returned home with unshakable thoughts of life and death.
April 23, 2010
: Kim Ives The plan unveiled at the UN donors conference for Haiti boils down to one thing: Washington's takeover of the "new" Haiti.
April 5, 2010
: Roger Annis Since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, familiar patterns of interference and neglect and by the major powers that dominate the country are still entrenched.
March 16, 2010
: Dave Chameides A U.S. filmmaker describes what he saw on a trip to Haiti after the earthquake--and the kind of aid the country still needs.
March 16, 2010
: Ashley Smith Much has been made of the differences between the disasters in Haiti and Chile, but the similarities in the way human need comes last are striking.
March 12, 2010
: Scott Weinstein Until Haitians are allowed to build a sustainable infrastructure, so-called aid becomes another weapon to exploit them.
March 4, 2010
: Judith De Los Santos Sonia Pierre, a long-time human rights advocate, has sent response teams into the hardest-to-reach areas of Haiti.
March 2, 2010
: Ashley Smith The failure of U.S. operations to help most Haitian survivors of the earthquake has also exposed some of the worst aspects of the NGO aid industry.
February 24, 2010
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