More than four years after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile, questions linger about Washington’s involvement. A congressional bill that would create a truth commission to explore the U.S. role in  the 2004 regime change in Haiti is languishing in the House Foreign Affairs Committee with only 12 co-sponsors. But... » read this article

In my most recent article, I argued that the Haitian Revolution which produced the first Black Republic in the world was one of the most important revolutions in history. Never before had humankind witnessed an enslaved people rising up to defeat the super-powers of the day to achieve self-determination and... » read this article

The four hurricanes that hit Haiti in August and September directly caused 800 deaths and massive destruction of its roads and bridges, along with the crops and cropland that feed its people. Haiti is so poor that it couldn’t recover from this devastation. At the end of October, people in... » read this article

Editorial Note: This ongoing tragedy in Haiti, the collapse of a school, is just one more result of the occupation and oppression of the people of Haiti. The last episode began with the kidnapping of Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically-elected president,  by U.S. marines when they forced him into exile... » read this article

Today, the acid test for all democrats in North and South America is the issue of the military occupation of Haiti, the economic pillage and denial of elementary political and human rights of the Haitian people. In 2004 a US-led invasion force overthrew the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand... » read this article

Kidnappings Rise as Economic Woes Deepen PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 5 (IPS) - Several thousand people, including remnants of the wealthy and educated class who remain in Haiti, took to the streets of Port-au-Prince Wednesday to rail against what they say is government inaction amid a rise in kidnappings. After two years... » read this article

19/05/2008 - The shanty towns found in the twisting gullies slicing through Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, are the poorest slums of the poorest country in the western hemisphere. The world price of rice, Haiti's staple food, has trebled in the past year. At a stroke, millions who already endured absolute poverty... » read this article

President Hugo Chávez said that tons of seven extended-consumption food will be shipped and recalled the terrible situation of Latin America’s and the Caribbean’s first independent nation “We are providing Haiti with a shipment of food in the next hours,” announced the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo... » read this article

Long before mass demonstrations and food riots broke out in Haiti this past week, I was already planning to write about the Iraq of the West Indies. In 1990, I can still recall returning to the U.S. from Central America after being exposed to Liberation Theology: A belief that God... » read this article

Published Mar 22, 2008 Laura Bush swung by Haiti for a few hours on March 13 on her way to Mexico. She stayed in her car or in a building for most of the few hours she spent there promoting the Bush administration’s interventions on poverty and AIDS. The Bush... » read this article

HIP Special Report - Darren Ell is a photojournalist from Montreal, Canada who contributes to the Haiti Information Project (HIP). His previous work, interviews with Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Mario Joseph, and Brian Concannon Jr., focused on the violation of civil and political rights following the 2004 coup d’état. This article looks... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Mr. Katz, writing for the Associated Press, aptly blames hunger in Haiti on "dependency on foreign imports", but he neglects to place this heart-breaking story into its proper historical-political context. He fails to write of the coup d'etat carried out by the U.S. government under the pretext of... » read this article

On February 7, 2006 (and with due homage to the great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano) the people of Haiti were not to be denied. Few people anywhere have endured more oppression and human misery or for a longer period of time (with all too few periods of relief). In spite... » read this article

Has the Associated Press and the New York Times gone to bed with the National Endowment for Democracy? Editor's Note: Also read Eva Golinger: NED on the offensive in Venezuela - Les Blough ORIGINAL ARTICLE UPDATED: 12/30/05 7:00 PM PST A by-lined freelancer for the Associated Press, who is also... » read this article

Has the Associated Press and the New York Times gone to bed with the National Endowment for Democracy? ORIGINAL ARTICLE UPDATED: 12/30/05 (Flashpoints! - Berkeley) A by-lined freelancer for the Associated Press, who is also a stringer for the New York Times in Haiti, is moonlighting as a consultant for... » read this article

Editor's Note: The story below is a simple one about a man with a U.S. passport who would be president of the nation of Haiti. But it is also a pregnant story. Ironically, one of the sources of hope for those who long for a civilized world can be the... » read this article

On February 28, 2004, in the middle of the night, the US again invaded Haiti. It abducted and forcibly removed democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by its staged coup d'etat and flew him against his will to the Central African Republic. Aristide today remains in exile in South Africa but... » read this article

Shown in the photograph (right) are members of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas family, slain by U.S.-backed police. On February 29, 2004, U.S. Marines kidnapped democratically-elected President Aristide and backed the coup that overthrew his government. In the first two months, those who brought the coup killed over 1,000 political adversaries and dissidents... » read this article

Posté le Tuesday 4 October 2005  During his weekly radio and television shows broadcast on 2 October, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez offered to include Haiti in his PetroCaribe initiative to provide Caribbean nations with oil and petrol. Eleven Caribbean countries have already agreed to be supplied with fuel on low... » read this article

Editor's Note: Since the U.S. re-invasion of Haiti and coup d'etat in the kidnapping of democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide via U.S. Marines, the valiant Haitian people have not stopped fighting the occupation of their country. The U.S. arrest and imprisonment of Gerard Jean-Juste and now the barring him his candidacy for president of Haiti in coming... » read this article