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Arabica Robusta

Haiti: Persecution and death threats to camp activist & human rights lawyer - 0 views

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  • On April 13th the camp residents received a visit from Renold Georges who claimed to be the owner of the land.  He threatened to burn and bulldoze the camp if they did not leave the camp.  The following Monday a section of the camp was set on fire by two motorcyclists, possibly in the hope of keeping Renold Georges promise to destroy the whole camp.  
  • The police arrested two camp residents, Meril Civil and Darlin Lexima who was released after 24 hours.   Lexima reported to the camp lawyers that he was beaten and that he believed Civil was also beaten.  According to the police, Civil was taken to the hospital but died.  However,  Lexima believes he was killed in the police station and was already dead when he arrived at the hospital.
  • Elie is well known to the Commissariat Delta Force as he was arrested in August following floods brought about by Hurricane Sandy.  The camp residents were protesting about the flooding in the camp, the lack of water and the many tents which were destroyed.   Elie spent three days in police custody during which time he was severely beaten.  He was released after the court threw out the case for lack of evidence.    He believes the police and particularly the Delta force have a vendetta against him.
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  • In Haiti there are two problems : everyone wants to be a Chief and secondly the white man has too many interests in the country so if they don’t kill you for the power, they will kill you for the interest of the blan [foreigner]!
paloma rivera

Rebuilding Haiti: Open for business | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Electricity costs 23 cents a kilowatt-hour, against 14 cents next door in the Dominican Republic.
  • Mr Martelly is a politically inexperienced populist. He will find it hard to get business-friendly reforms through a legislature in which his party has few seats and which rejected his first two choices for prime minister. The government is dithering over whether to renew the mandate of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, a body set up after the earthquake to co-ordinate foreign aid. Mr Martelly may be right that to attract private investment Haiti needs to change its image of eternal aid supplicant into one of a hard-working place. But it also needs to change realities on the ground, and that may be harder.
Arabica Robusta

Justice and Reparations in Haiti » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 0 views

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  • 8,000 Haitians have been killed by cholera, and hundreds more die each year.  Haiti had avoided cholera for a century before the outbreak triggered by United Nations troops systematically dumping untreated, infected human waste into the country’s primary river. Despite overwhelming evidence of the UN’s responsibility, evidence that includes the analysis of the UN’s own experts, Haitian victims have not received so much as an apology for their grievous losses, much less a remedy.
  • after three years of UN stonewalling, the outlook is finally improving for Jacqueline Olonville and other cholera victims. Earlier this month, at a Geneva ceremony honoring the work of Haitian human rights attorney Mario Joseph, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay deviated from her prepared remarks. “Those who suffered as a result of that cholera (should) be provided with compensation,” Pillay said.
corey stanley

Bill Quigley: Why the U.S. Owes Haiti Billions - 8 views

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      corey stanley on 21 Jan 10
       
      This is the same thing i want to know, how do we owe them billions if they are the poorest country in the world?
    • corey stanley
      corey stanley on 21 Jan 10
       
      This makes no sence that they only make 2$ a day, this is not like old times, why dont they have regular paying jobs like we do?
  • AndreaLee EWSIS on 21 Jan 10
     
    For this week, my "English" class has been researching both Haiti's history and current situation. As you all may know, Haiti has suffered 7.0 and 6.0 recorded earthquakes as well as strong tremors. The country has lived in poverty and is known to be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Bill Quigly writes an article about the economic relationship between the United States and Haiti. Basically, America has bullied the small country into ruins. At first, France charged Haiti to pay reparations at the cost of nearly 150 million francs. When Haiti could not pay that off, it had to take loans from both French and American banks. They nearly owe the United States over $20 billion dollars. However, this is just plain bullying. It is unfair for America to support dictators, especially when the reason is to stabilize economic interests. And also, they forced Haiti to go into the world economic market. We owe this little country a lot more to make up for the years of damage we caused. And I'm surprised people are more willing to help Haiti more than other country America imperialized.
Paul Allison

Click Snapshot for: Haiti's tradition of curious tyrants, by Robert Dewar. Contemporary Review 284.1660 (May 2004): p265(3). - 0 views

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  • Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10
     
    This is a history that compares the past with the present, looking for patterns. I think it is well worth our time to consider this history at this time. Copy and paste this URL to see the Snapshot of this article: http://bit.ly/7tM8NO
Paul Allison

Devestation Puts Spotlight on Haiti's History, Trouble - 0 views

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  • Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10
     
    The history is important.
Paul Allison

Don't count Haiti out - latimes.com - 1 views

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  • Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10
     
    What an inspiring and historically grounded commentary: "The tragedy is tremendous and the threats to life ongoing in a situation in which the ground is still trembling and disease likely. But the capacity of this people for survival and, indeed, for greatness in the worst of conditions has been demonstrated for more than two centuries. These are the descendants of people who overthrew an indecent, inhuman, overpowering slave system. Many of those still alive grew up under a vicious dynasty and rose up to oust it. It's entirely likely, therefore, that Haitians once again will put together a national coumbite. With a huge humanitarian effort from their friends, they will rebuild the country -- for the better. The will must be there for the world to come to Haiti's aid and work with the millions of surviving Haitians to rebuild this valuable country. So many Haitians, including the president, have nowhere to sleep, but they will sleep and get up again tomorrow to face the troubles. "
Paul Allison

SwiftFM - None: None - 5 views

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  • Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10
     
    History of Haiti as a song.
Paul Allison

Ayiti: The Cost of Life - 77 views

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shared by Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Paul Allison on 18 Jan 10
     
    Now for some gaming!
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