On my return to Haiti … | Jean-Bertrand Aristide
A profit-driven recovery plan, devised and carried out by outsiders, can not reconstruct my countryHaiti's devastating earthquake in January last year destroyed up to 5,000 schools and 80% of the...
View ArticleHaiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide vows to return
Ex-leader writes in the Guardian that his seven-year exile is at an endThe former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, today gives his firmest indication yet that he will return to the country...
View ArticleHaiti braces for return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Island issues new passport for former president forced out in 2004 and living in exile in South AfricaHaiti has issued a diplomatic passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in effect ending...
View ArticleThis time, the people of Haiti may win | Mark Weisbrot
The US has overthrown Jean-Bertrand Aristide twice. But now it will encounter a new reality in the AmericasIn 1915, the US Marines invaded Haiti, occupying the country until 1934. US officials rewrote...
View ArticleFor helping Haiti, thank you, President Zuma | Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover...
Haiti is indebted to South Africa for sheltering ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Please now assist his early returnDear President Zuma,We write to offer our warm thanks and appreciation for...
View ArticleHaiti needs the world's support | Open letter
Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Slavoj Žižek and others call on the US, France and Canada to keep out of Haiti's democratic process in an open letter to the GuardianOver the next few years, much of Haiti will...
View ArticleHaiti wants Aristide: let him go | Kim Ives
Even now, to prop up a fatally flawed election, Washington is trying to sabotage the return of Haiti's ousted former presidentThe arrogance of Washington's renewed efforts to thwart former President...
View ArticleHaiti must decide Haiti's future | Mark Weisbrot
It is outrageous that, at the 11th hour, the US is still pressing South Africa to stop the return of ousted President AristideHaiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is...
View ArticleJean-Bertrand Aristide's return: homecoming or comeback? | Alex Dupuy
Haiti's ousted former president still enjoys popular support, but there are many obstacles to a resumption of his political careerMuch has been made in the Haitian and international media about the...
View ArticleJean-Bertrand Aristide exile ends with rapturous welcome home to Haiti
Seven years after he was ousted in rebellion, former president arrives on election eve talking of Haitians' plightJean-Bertrand Aristide, the pastor-turned-president last seen in his native Haiti...
View ArticleWith Aristide's return comes hope | Selma James
We don't know how Haiti will react to an election that excluded his party, but the former president will take his cue from the peopleThe return of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family...
View ArticleMichel Martelly, Aristide's weak imitator | Kim Ives
'Sweet Micky' Martelly is tipped to win a presidential vote the majority of Haitians boycotted. Aristide's return is the real storyFormer President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the real winner of Haiti's...
View ArticleAristide: rightfully restored to Haiti | Amy Goodman
The US did its damnedest to prevent the return of the elected president it helped oust in 2004. That it failed is a turning-pointLate at night on 17 March 2011, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand...
View ArticleHaiti: what WikiLeaks' US embassy cables reveal | Kim Ives
Conditioned by a century of superpower status, the US still acts as if it may dispose of Haiti as it chooses: as colonial dominionI recently came across some letters my grandfather, then 24, had...
View ArticleAmerica's subversion of Haiti's democracy continues | Mark Weisbrot
Even though former President Aristide has eschewed politics since his return from exile, the US is still threatening himWhen the "international community" blames Haiti for its political troubles, the...
View ArticleNine named by judge over murder of Haitian radio journalist
Nine people have been named in connection with the murder in 2000 of Haiti's popular radio journalist, Jean Dominique. He and his security guard were shot dead in the courtyard of Radio Haiti-Inter's...
View ArticleRené Préval obituary
President of Haiti who managed to bring a measure of tranquillity to a country besieged by poverty and violenceRené Préval, who has died at the age of 74, will be remembered as the only president in...
View ArticleFailing Haiti and forgetting Jean-Bertrand Aristide Aristide | Letter
Dr Kevin Bannon on the root of the Caribbean country’s problems and why the US demeans the politician who became Haiti’s first democratically elected presidentHaiti’s political and economic problems...
View ArticleGuns, gangs and foreign meddling: how life in Haiti went from bad to worse
Corrupt elites and badly managed aid have ensured life for Haitians remains mired in violence and poverty. President Moïse’s assassination marks an escalating catastropheThe Haitian political activist...
View ArticleFor peace in Haiti, first win the war on hunger | Letters
The millions of Haitians facing food insecurity need our help, says Jean-Martin Bauer of the UN’s World Food Programme, while Selma James urges robust reporting on the crisis “Arguably the two most...
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