Social Justice Magazine
n a nutshell, the United Nations imported the deadly cholera disease to Haiti, but blames the fatal injury on the victim’s pre-existing conditions.Folks, the Health Leadership and Learning Network (HLLN) needs your help. The UN literally dumped the deadly disease, through gross and perhaps even criminal negligence into Haiti’s waterways and tributaries. It has killed untold thousands of … [Read more...]
We were on the way to Truttier at the end of Part 5 of this series, before I had to digress over to the Iron Market, but allow me to again pick up the thread:Congratulations from other Caribbean presidents and officials, as well as elsewhere, are flowing into the offices of the new President-elect of Haiti, Michel (Sweet Micky) Martelly, famous (some would say infamous, but they may be … [Read more...]
Violence Erupts in Wake of New Election Shenanigans in Haiti Haiti's newly elected president, Michel Martelly, has requested that the international community "not recognize the results of the Parliamentary elections." In a press release issued late Friday night, Martelly charges that vote tabulations for senators and deputies who were leading in the polls were excluded in favor of candidates … [Read more...]
US Troops Increase Presence in Haiti Depending on the source, up to 300 US troops have "boots on the ground" in Haiti in anticipation of the announcement of election results, Monday. According to Haiti's BelPolitic and the Miami Herald, there is concern that announced results of the presidential runoff between former first lady Mirlande Manigat and pop singer Michel Martelly could result in … [Read more...]
Haiti's New President Facing Specter of de Facto 'Housing Apartheid' 1500 polling stations in Haiti opened on Sunday, giving the beleaguered population the opportunity to choose between pop star Michel Martelly and former First Lady for president. Preliminary results are expected on March 31 and final certification on April 16 by the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). To their credit, … [Read more...]
Beating back the elite's rabid rage: Against all odds Aristide returns to Haiti Aristide returned to Haiti Friday. I've not seen such genuine happiness on the faces of Haiti's poor in over seven years. Welcome President Jean Bertrand Aristide and family. Today is a good day for the poorest of the poor in the Western Hemisphere. Their struggle and unimaginable sacrifices and sufferings bore fruit … [Read more...]
Reportedly, President Aristide is on a plane right now, as of this Thursday, March 17th noon, supposedly “going to Haiti”. He is expected to arrive at night or should I say, “into darkness”… into the valley of death where the shadows of Youri Latortue, Louis Jodel Chamblain, Guy Philippe, Lame Timanchet are all set, on behalf of Manigat, to make war with Martelly’s Ninjas (Haiti … [Read more...]
A lush tropical background frames the shot as the young Haitian woman engages the camera lens completely, confidently, and boldly. Wearing a bright orange tunic and holding a microphone in one hand, she uses the other to open a primitive faucet jerry-rigged to a PVC pipe. As the woman begins the standup introduction for the Ayiti Kale Je video investigation of the cholera epidemic that has … [Read more...]
I’ve been avoiding a performance piece about earthquakes. So many seismic shifts and fault lines these last seven years. Paradoxically, there’s nothing new not already covered in the Red Black & Moonlight (RBM) series, except the level of Official cruelty, act of barbarity and hypocrisy is more vivid and vicious, with genocidal aftershocks. I didn’t know how to began. Then, in one … [Read more...]
With invaluable assistance in translation, cultural matters, and investigations from Andre Paultre—a Haitian man who deeply loves his countryOn February 5 we spent a day traveling to the mountains of Haiti’s Arcahaie region in the Quest Department to investigate mysterious deaths among villagers.Internet chatter began in earnest on January 26 when foreign medical interests in Haiti … [Read more...]
Haiti: Clean Water Is A Human Right If You Can Find It After Relief Agencies LeaveTranslation and interpretive assistance in the field by Andre PaultreOn February 4, The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) distributed its final "situation report" on issues covering Haiti's cholera epidemic. With the end of the rainy season, new cases of cholera seem to … [Read more...]
Flying into Miami on American Airlines flight 1908 from Port-au-Prince was terrifying. It wasn’t the competence of the pilot that was of concern, but descending out of the darkness into the beautiful but blinding lights of the American urban landscape was more disorienting than severe turbulence. The mind—still seared with the sights, sounds and smells of Haiti—was waking to a different … [Read more...]
Monday, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) issued a press release saying only 4 out of 8 of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) members signed the document determining which candidates should advance to the second round of Haiti's disputed and deeply flawed election results. This came in spite of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's high profile and breakneck visit to … [Read more...]
The story of the unexpected and shocking return of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc'' Duvalier on Sunday, and the spectacle of his questioning by Haitian authorities on Tuesday, has as many subplots as a Greek drama. Unfortunately for Haiti, there will be no deus ex machina—no god of truth to shed light on the reasons why Duvalier picked this moment, 25 years after he was exiled in … [Read more...]
The Dispossessed of Camp Canaan Haiti's former dictator and many would say "thief," Jean Claude Duvalier, arrived in Haiti Sunday on an Air France jet--an arrival that seemed almost surreal. Haitian society is still reeling from an earthquake that killed 300,000, left 1.5 million homeless, and fractured the country's ability to fight a cholera epidemic that has killed over 3,700 and sickened … [Read more...]
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