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The Real News Network
February 26, 2018
KIM IVES: Well, they're being accused of holding Caligula like orgies in Oxfam housing. The national director, who I believe was the seventh person forced to resign, also engaged in prostitution with a 16-year-old. There were many other Haitian minors who were apparently involved, even though Oxfam ...
The Real News Network
February 26, 2018
KIM IVES: Well, they're being accused of holding Caligula like orgies in Oxfam housing. The national director, who I believe was the seventh person forced to resign, also engaged in prostitution with a 16-year-old. There were many other Haitian minors who were apparently involved, even though Oxfam ...
Sputnik International
February 23, 2018
And just this afternoon, the Haitian government suspended all Oxfam activities in the country. Brian and John speak with Kim Ives, an editor of the newspaper Haiti Liberte. With the 2018 Winter Olympics ending on Sunday, North and South Korea are looking at what could be a breakthrough in their relations ...
Democracy Now!
September 11, 2017
While Haiti avoided a direct hit from Irma, the hurricane still caused substantial damage in a country still recovering from the 2010 earthquake, as well as Hurricane Matthew last year. Irma displaced more than 100,000 Haitians and destroyed crops in the north of the country. So, Kim Ives joins Edwidge ...
teleSUR English
March 16, 2017
In February 2004, he played a key role in helping U.S. Special Forces kidnap then President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and whisk him off to a seven year exile in Africa. Today, Philippe claims, through his lawyer, that U.S. government agents illegally kidnapped him from Haiti on Jan. 5, 2017 and, with ...
BBC News
November 1, 2016
Donald Trump has said the work of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Haiti was a "disgrace". What really happened? "The Clinton family, they are crooks, they are thieves, they are liars," says Haitian activist Dahoud Andre. He has been leading protests outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan and ...
Liberation
October 15, 2016
Women pick their way down a muddy street in Aux Cayes after Hurricane Matthew. 'After their experience of the last six years, the Haitian people are justified in being wary of foreigners bearing gifts but whose policies have always undermined Haiti's democracy and sovereignty.' | UN Photo/Logan Abassi.
CounterPunch
October 13, 2016
The images and accounts of Haiti's devastation following Hurricane Matthew's passage on October 4 are gut-wrenching. The death toll is in the many hundreds and continues to rise. Entire villages in the country's southwest were obliterated. The response of a Haitian government left besieged and without ...
Liberation
October 7, 2016
Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 mph, slammed into Haiti's southern peninsula in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 4, leaving a swath of ripped-off roofs, stripped trees, raging rivers and flooded streets. The storm dumped over two feet of rain water on Haiti in the ...
Jacobin magazine
April 11, 2016
Haiti is no stranger to political crises — and it is in the midst of its most severe one in decades. The latest upheaval, which looks set to last many months, began in January 2016, when massive demonstrations aborted the final round of patently fraudulent, US-sponsored elections. An unelected interim ...
Aljazeera.com
January 13, 2012
"There are too many intermediaries. If we take the US contribution alone, about 99 per cent of it goes back to the Pentagon, the State Department, the NGOs and the contractors... The growth of the republic of NGOs in Haiti began about 40 years ago, before that Haiti could feed and clothe itself." - Kim Ives ...
The Nation.
June 16, 2011
WikiLeaks Haiti: The Post-Quake 'Gold Rush' for Reconstruction Contracts ... By Ansel Herz and 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 secret cable from US Ambassador Kenneth Merten.
The Nation.
June 1, 2011
But the factory owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development and the US Embassy when they took that stand.
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