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Haiti Liberté editorial on political situation, upcoming election

Submitted by CHAN on August 31, 2010 - 20:57
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Our Position on the Political Situation in Haiti

By Berthony Dupont. Editor, Haiti Liberté

This editorial appeared in the August 11 issue of Haiti Liberté. The translation from the original French was done by CHAN website editors. Haiti Liberté  is a weekly newspaper published in Brooklyn, USA and Port au Prince in Kreyol, French and English (one page in English per issue) and distributed in Haiti, North America and elsewhere.  You can subscribe online for US$20 per year, or by post (in Canada, for US$125 per year).

Vox Sambou and the Solid'Ayiti initiative for Haiti

Submitted by CHAN on August 25, 2010 - 21:51
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Interview by Stefan Christoff

 

Published on rabble.ca, August 13, 2010. Please refer to the original article posting on Rabble to access footnotes.

 

Despite 'all that money,' more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by January earthquake

Submitted by CHAN on August 24, 2010 - 21:07

By Edward Cody
Washington Post, Sunday, August 22, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Immacula Pierre had a question. Why, she wanted to know, are she and 50,000 other homeless Haitians still living in a squalid tent city on the Champ de Mars, an esplanade in the heart of Port-au-Prince just across the street from the destroyed National Palace.

"I'm still here," she said, gesturing at a tattered tarp-and-plywood shelter that covered a soaked bed on ground left muddy by an overnight downpour. "I wake up every morning here, and I just stare up at the sky. Nothing else."

The Drama of Haiti's Internally Displaced
By Isabeau Doucet. Published in Haiti Liberté in two parts. Part One, issue of August 11 - 17, 2010,  Vol. 4, No. 4. The stories coming out of precarious camps of internally displaced people (IDP)
The Assault on Haitian Democracy
Published on the website of NACLA, The North American Congress on Latin America, August 23, 2010. By Kevin Edmonds While the presidential candidacy of rapper/entertainer Wyclef Jean in Haiti’s upcoming
Canada's Failed Aid to Haiti
By Roger Annis Published in Haiti Liberté, August 4, 2010. (Version francaise ici) The six month mark after Haiti's January 12 earthquake saw a flurry of news reports in Canada and around the world. The
Kim Ives Writes on Haiti Election
MUSICIANS, DOCTORS, ACTIVISTS, TECHNOCRATS AND POLITICIANS: 34 CANDIDATES BID FOR HAITI'S PRESIDENCY By Kim Ives, Editor of Haiti Liberté PART ONE, Published on August 11, 2010 Haiti's embattled
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