U.N. Abuse of Haitian Teen in Port Salut Caught on Cell Phone Video
Went out to Port Salut to look into allegations of abuse leveled at UN peacekeepers. Most of what I found is in this story, just published by ABC News: Haitians in this remote seaside town…
WikiLeaks: Embassy’s “Privatization Update” Shows Shock Doctrine in Action in Haiti
Klein spells out the definition of shock doctrine: using shocking situations to push through legislation that would not be passed under normal circumstances. The shock doctrine is, as she states, a “democracy-avoidance strategy.” – Naomi…
Audio: Haitian Views on President Martelly’s First 100 Days
City Mosaic I spoke to some Haitians in displacement camps – living there since about the time of January 12, 2010 earthquake – about President Michel Martelly’s first 100 days in office. They voice their…
WikiLeaks Haiti: The Aristide Files
I’m a little late in posting this here to my blog, but I recently co-authored with Kim Ives this piece in The Nation. A longer, more detailed version of this story including discussion of how…
WikiLeaked Cables Testify to Haiti PM Nominee’s Repressive Past
Co-authored with Kim Ives in Haiti Liberte: Bernard Gousse, whom Haitian President Michel Martelly nominated for Prime Minister on Jul. 6, was so repressive, uncontrollable and ineffective as Haiti’s de facto Justice Minister seven years…
On Journalistic Malpractice, Mac McClelland, and Haiti
Update 7/9: Before I wrote the post below, I contacted McClelland asking whether Sybille/K* had given consent for her story to be used the way it was in her GOOD magazine piece. She responded with…
WikiLeaks: Disaster Capitalism in Quake Relief Effort
Co-authored in The Nation magazine with Haiti Liberte‘s Kim Ives: Disaster capitalists were flocking to Haiti in a “gold rush” for contracts to rebuild the country after the January 12, 2010, earthquake, according to a…
WikiLeaks: Militarization in Quake Relief Effort
Published last week by The Nation magazine, with a longer version in the weekly Haiti Liberte: Washington deployed 22,000 troops to Haiti after the January 12, 2010, earthquake despite reports from the Haitian leadership, the…
US Security Firm Caught Training Mexican Police in Torture Techniques Tied to Evictions in Haiti
Published today by Narco News: Security forces who are tearing down makeshift tent camps inhabited by Haitians displaced in last year’s earthquake were trained by Risks Incorporated, a US private security firm involved in torture…
The Aftenposten 13: New Wikileaks Cables Show Extent of US Opposition to Aristide
Not long after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide landed in Haiti yesterday, ending an exile begun in 2004 by a US-backed coup d’etat, Kristoffer Rønneberg at the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten posted online 13 new private diplomatic…
