Haiti

Haitians demand U.S./U.N. troops out

Thousands of angry Haitians gathered in front of the Hotel le Plaza in downtown Port-au-Prince on June 1 to demand…

June 9, 2013

Thousands in Haiti provide escort for Aristide

Haiti’s judicial police headquarters had banned demonstrations in support of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. So, on May 8, tens of…

May 19, 2013

Georges Honorat ¡Presente!

Workers World and its branches around the country condemn in the strongest terms the cowardly, brutal assassination of Georges Henri…

April 2, 2013

U.N. denies its troops brought cholera to Haiti

The United Nations took 15 months to contemplate a claim that a cholera epidemic, which killed more than 8,600 Haitians…

March 11, 2013

Mass protests in Haiti support Aristide

After granting notorious Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier a diplomatic passport, the Haitian government ironically called former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in…

January 20, 2013

Guns – weapons or tools? Pointed which way?

Part 5: Haitian Revolution defeated colonial armies Under capitalism, guns — like other weapons technology — are commodities produced by…

January 13, 2013

Haiti’s reconstruction barely begun

Three years after the earthquake that killed 300,000 people on Jan. 12, 2010, reconstruction has barely begun in Haiti. Debris…

January 11, 2013

Haitians demand roads, schools, water

Mass protests, with barricades of burning tires, kept Construtora OAS, a Brazilian construction company, from moving its equipment out of…

December 16, 2012

Hurricane hits Haiti, Jamaica

Sandy began in the southern Caribbean near Nicaragua, and when it passed over Jamaica, its winds were barely hurricane force.…

November 5, 2012

Solidarity flows in Cuba after hurricane

Before laying waste to the Eastern U.S., Hurricane Sandy ripped through Caribbean islands, causing deaths in Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico,…

November 5, 2012