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Border Patrol and Haitian Refugees
Border Patrol and Haitian Refugees - It looks idyllic but the lovely town of Necoclí is not all about juicy mangos or volcano swimming.
Temporary Protected Status for Haitians: What It Really Means When It Ends
Brian Biery: Approximately $1.4 billion was sent from Haitians in the U.S. back home in 2016, which accounts for an astounding 29.4% of Haiti’s 2016 Gross Domestic Product!
Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Black Immigrants Under Threat
Luce Janvier: Thousands of residents are fearful that they may lose their jobs because they haven’t been able to renew their work permits. The Department of Homeland Security neglected to provide Haitian TPS holders with updated information on the work authorization renewal period.
Haitian Leaders Suggest How Trump Can Drain Haiti’s Swamp
Georgianne Nienaber: The swamp is deep in Haiti and began filling over 200 years ago under French occupation. Now the fetid waters of exploitation and corruption are spilling over into the drug culture on U.S. shores.
On Beyonce's Big Day, Haitian Revelers Celebrate Slaying of Carnival King
Ezili Danto: Does Giuliani think he's Bill Clinton 1992 and Beyonce is Sistah Souljah to take down because she artistically lifts up Black power? Haitian Revelers
Haiti's Political and Electoral Crisis Worsens
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti has a long history of provisional governments gone terribly wrong. A recent problematic example can be viewed as prophecy and a warning about U.S. and other foreign involvement.
Haiti Election Aftermath: Fraud, Apathy, or Organized Chaos?
Regine Barjon and Georgianne Nienaber: Politicians in Haiti need to start behaving like true leaders in a democracy that is obviously struggling.
A Barbaric Lynching In the Dominican Republic
Zili Danto: On Wednesday February 10, 2015, in this paradise of European development, a Haitian man named Claude Jean Harry, nicknamed “Tulile,” who was a humble shoe shine worker, was found hanging in Santiago Park.
Land Grab in “Paradise”: Haiti’s Île à Vache Fights Back
Mark Schuller and Jessica Hsu: Residents are not necessarily opposed to “development” or tourism. Instead, they are deeply concerned that they will be stripped of their land and no longer have access to the waters in which they fish.
Tourism Is Not Development: Haiti, Liberate Yourself!
Haitian Tourism: A job as a maid, butler, busboy, cashier or sexual receptacles for Northern tourists will not create wealth for Haiti.
International Crossroads and Failures in Haiti
Failures in Haiti: For Ricardo Seitenfus, Haiti's earthquake set the final stage for an "international embezzlement" of the country.
The Pain Rush in Haiti
Ezili Dantò: The children are dying. Haiti is dying, dying from the hidden US occupation behind UN mercenary guns. Dying from cholera, dying from Clorox hunger, drought, hurricanes, earthquake evictions, dying in hopelessness and despair
Who Owns Haiti's Future?
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti was also stopped dead in her tracks, and for those who follow progress, or lack thereof in the tiny country, many questions remain about foreign aid that has translated into foreign control over Haiti's destiny.
Haiti’s LGBTQ Accepting Vodou Societies
Rev. Irene Monroe: Haitian Vodou is an ancestral folk religion whose tenets have always been queer-friendly, accepting people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.
Haiti Should Divorce "US"
Georgianne Nienaber: Americans have loved Haiti to death. We are listless, lazy, cheating lovers who don't have the stamina to go the distance in a relationship. Haiti is just too much work.
US Control of Haiti, Other Little Republics' Vote at UN Not New
Zili Danto: Maybe George Will intended to make the point that the US empire's control of Haiti and other little republics' vote at the UN is not new.
Haiti: Not Buying a Ticket for Obama's Show
Ezili Dantò: Obama will most likely win again because denial is easier than the hard reality of Obama’s betrayal of Main Street and championing of corporate welfare for Wall Street.
Haitians Poisoned: Fake Clairin
Ayiti Kale Je: When will government authorities recognize that one of the main causes of “liquid death” and so many other crimes and tragedies is the result of their blind embrace of savage neoliberal policies?
Haitians Poisoned: And Justice?
Ayiti Kale Je: With the complete failure of the government to fulfill its obligations, who would dare to sip one of Haiti’s traditional drinks, made from homegrown sugar cane? Who will take the risk of being poisoned? Not the privileged, who drink fine, sweet rum or imported whiskies.
Haitians Poisoned: Liquid Death
Ayiti Kale Je: In Haiti, the authorities continue to mystify the public with promises and “commissions,” while the national clairin industry disappears under a tidal wage of imported clairin.
Defusing Haiti's Time Bomb Now
Ezili Dantò: There’s a reason to recall the efforts responsible Haitians make to survive the Western rabid rage hidden behind the do-gooders’ benevolence.