Haïti

• Haiti: Asking for the withdrawal of Minustah and cancel debt

  by Cristiano Morsolin

  2 November 2011

  Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel expressed indignation at the vote to renew the mandate of the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for another year, a decision he indicates that fails to take into account the urgency of a profound transformation of international policies towards Haiti. "This is a vote to continue the military and economic occupation of Haiti," stated Pérez Esquivel. "It is a decision that undermines the sovereignty and self (...)

• Repay historic debt to Haiti

  by Cristiano Morsolin

  27 January 2011

  Haiti’s ex-leader Jean-Claude Duvalier, the dictator known as Baby Doc who was overthrown in 1986, is arrived unexpectedly in the capital Port au Prince from exile in France. Mr Duvalier has been charged with theft and misappropriation of funds during his 1971-1986 rule. He is also being sued for torture and other crimes against humanity. The sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, world-systems analyst (he was Directeur d’études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, (...)

• Miami rice: subsidizing poverty creation in Haiti

  by Probe International

  4 December 2010

  Food aid in Haiti is the real reason the country is struggling to feed itself. Haiti’s inability to feed its own population is often used as an excuse for developed countries and aid agencies to dump food aid on the impoverished country. But a recent report provides more evidence that the real problem behind Haiti’s food crisis is subsidized imports and food aid. The result, according to Oxfam, is that these subsidized food imports have wiped out the country’s farmers, and subsequently, its (...)

• IMF debt cancellation for Haiti at last (and a new loan)

  by Nick Dearden

  30 July 2010

  Last week, the International Monetary Fund finally announced the cancellation of all the debts Haiti owes to the Fund. The cancellation will wipe out US $268 million – by far the largest remaining component of Haiti’s debt. The cancellation will be given via the newly established Post-Catastrophe Debt Relief Trust Fund, which was set up for this purpose and which can now be accessed by other highly indebted, low income countries hit by disasters. The fund is financed by current debt relief (...)

• Haiti : a Creditor, Not a Debtor

  by Naomi Klein

  7 March 2010

  If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full "forgiveness" of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these developments with cautious optimism. Debt cancellation is a good start, he told Al Jazeera English, but "It’s time to go much further. We have to talk about reparations and restitution for the devastating consequences of debt." In this telling, the (...)

• ’New Haiti,’ Same Corporate Interests

  by Isabel Macdonald

  31 January 2010

  In the wake of the earthquake that has killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti, the foreign ministers of several countries calling themselves the "Friends of Haiti" met on Monday in Montreal to discuss plans for "building a new Haiti." Participants in the Ministerial Preparatory Conference on Haiti, who included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; representatives of international financial institutions including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; and Haitian Prime Minister (...)

• For Haiti : Honor and respect

  by Anne Cauwel

  27 January 2010

  The disaster that struck Haiti has raised an impressive show of solidarity worldwide. This is good: solidarity is the tenderness of the people! And relief is essential, when everything fails to start with the drinking-water, when you cannot even bury the tens of thousands of lives ... and when the chaos caused by the earthquake has s ’add a daily reality already marked by scarcity of drinking water and hunger for the vast majority of Haitian people. But this aid is accompanied by a (...)

• Analysis of the military deployment in Haiti following the earthquake of 12 January 2010

  by Tony Rebecchi

  26 January 2010

  Chronological summary 1914 – The US marines plundered, guns in the hand, the National Bank of Haiti, and transferred the money in the coffers of the Citibank 1915 to 1934 – The US army occupied and exploited Haiti 1934 to 12 January 2010 –Setting up of various puppet-governments 1994 to 1999 – New occupation of the country by the US army 2004 to 12 January 2010 – the military occupation is subcontracted out to a UN mission 12 January 2010 – Catastrophic and destructive earthquake 13 (...)

• International call

  To the governments and organizations gathered in Montreal on the situation in Haiti

  26 January 2010

  The recent tragedy in Haiti shocked the people of the world for its destructive impact, the environmental and social consequences, and especially for the loss of human lives. Unfortunately, natural disasters are not new in that Caribbean country, which was impacted in 2008 by hurricanes Hanna and Ike. Nor is it the first time we have watched the international community make pledges of cooperation and assistance to Haiti. We are concerned, as organizations and social movements, that the (...)

• Haiti: Grants to repay an odious debt ?

  
  by Sophie Perchellet, Éric Toussaint

  18 January 2010

  There is a great risk that one of the largest relief operations in history will be similar in nature to the tsunami relief efforts in 2004, unless a radically different approach to a reconstruction model is adopted. Haiti was partially destroyed by an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale. We have all shed tears and the media, as they bombard us with apocalyptic images, report on financial pledges generous States have made. We know that Haiti needs to be rebuilt, this country (...)

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