Haiti

Posted by: John Phoenix FILE PHOTO: A mans walks past a burning barricade during a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 10, 2022.(Credit: AFP / Richard Pierrin) The US-backed government in Haiti and Kenyan military forces continue to lose territory to gangs and paramilitaries in Port-au-Prince. The inability to restore order is leading Haitians to demand a new government. According to a report from Human Rights Watch, the Haitian government now only controls 10% of the capital city. “Haiti’s security situation is in a free fall and Haitians are suffering horrific abuses,” said Nathalye Cotrino, senior Americas researcher at HRW. The Haitian government has struggled to control Port-au-Prince since the assassination of Preside...

The US president responded to a push in Congress by offering an expiration date FILE PHOTO: President Joe Biden receives his Covid-19 booster from a member of the White House medical unit, October 25, 2022 ©  AP / Evan Vucci The White House announced on Monday that it wants to end the Covid-19 national emergency by May 11, though that would entail extending it first. The plan comes after Republicans in the House of Representatives announced a vote on ending the emergency, and as the World Health Organization said the public health restrictions ought to continue in some form. The current national emergency declaration is set to expire on March 1, while the public health emergency (PHE) runs out on April 11. President Joe Biden intends to “extend the emergen...

The previous military occupations of Haiti “all brought disease, hunger, poverty and destruction,” says David Oxygène.By Cécile Accilien ,  TRUTHOUT Demonstrators from different cities, holding banners and placards, protest to demand the removal of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on September 7, 2022. The Biden administration is again pushing for military intervention in Haiti, in part due to the fear of Haitian immigrants coming to the United States, but also as a result of an imperialist mindset that is focused on physically controlling Haiti. The U.S. mainstream media constantly present Haiti as a country that is collapsing without presenting geopolitical, colonial and structural contexts regarding this collapse. Since de facto Prime Minister ...

BY SETH DONNELLY Photo courtesy of the Committee to Protect Journalists. On October 7th, in the face of massive and ever-growing demonstrations all across Haiti demanding the uprooting of the right-wing Haitian Tét Kale Party (PHTK) dictatorship, Prime Minister Ariel Henry exploited the fiction of a war between his regime and “gangs” to call for the intervention of foreign troops to expand the colonial occupation of Haiti. In doing so, he was echoing the tweet made the day before by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro. Within days, the Biden Administration proceeded to draft a UN Security Council resolution calling for the expanded deployment of foreign troops in Haiti. To date, the UN Security Council has not yet passed this resolution, due to ...

Haiti Battered after the debacle and withdrawal from Afghanistan, the US imperialist tentacles are rising again and this time the target is - Haiti. Haiti, a small Caribbean nation near the US, had been at the forefront of facing the brutal brunt of the Monroe Doctrine, which considers countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as a playground for US imperialism.  The US intervention in Haiti that started in 1905 with the military occupation of the country continue even today through various overt and covert means. Currently, Haitian capital and many areas are in the grip of gang-related violence. The violence in Haiti is on the rise since the assassination of the US-backed President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, with his interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry becoming the interim Presid...