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Green Left Weekly
January 17, 2018
Even more unforgivably, United Nations troops introduced cholera to post-earthquake Haiti by dumping the waste from their portable toilets into a river tributary near their base in Haiti. (The UN had been overseeing a military occupation of Haiti since a 2004 US-backed coup overthrew an electedÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 13, 2018
The Haitian Revolution was the first time slaves were able to permanently end slavery and forge an independent nation. It also was a tipping point in U.S. history, leading to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, paving the way for U.S. “Manifest Destiny” stretching from sea to shining sea and eventual dominance.
San Mateo Daily Journal
January 12, 2018
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians reacted with outrage Friday to reports that President Donald Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more ... the country's first democratically elected president, back to power after he was ousted in a coup, but then supported his removal in a rebellion in 2004.
CNN
January 12, 2018
The US claimed it was the result of "slave revolt" and even provided aid to put down the rebellion during the revolution, according to the State ... American troops once again intervened in Haiti following a 1991 military coup that ousted Haiti's first freely elected leader and led to an exodus of people to the USÃÂ ...
Vox
January 12, 2018
As writer Nicole Chavez detailed Friday for CNN, the US government has long been active in Haiti's politics. When the slaves in the country fought for independence in the late 18th century, the US provided aid to the French colonists in an effort to stop the rebellion, fearful that the revolt would spread to theÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 12, 2018
In the 1990s, U.S. intervention helped bring Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected president, back to power after he was ousted in a coup, but then supported his removal in a rebellion in 2004. After the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, the U.S. came to Haiti's assistance and was theÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 10, 2018
It was launched in October, a reboot of a previous mission that had begun in 2004, when thousands of U.N. troops were sent to Haiti following a coup ... Soon after, according to a report by local rights organization Justice and Peace, an armed conflict began as others sought to consolidate control of theÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 13, 2017
In the late 1700s, Burial Road was called Revolution Road by the French before Haiti's slaves overthrew Napoleon's army. But so many funeral .... Things worsened, unimaginably, after a 1991 coup, when the newly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown by soldiers. “I couldn't findÃÂ ...
NACLA
December 6, 2017
Such a coalition appeared in Haiti in 2004, mounted the 2009 coup in Honduras, staged a 24-hour impeachment in Paraguay in 2012, and removed a president in Brazil in 2016. Similar coalitions have attempted and failed to remove presidents in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Though events are stillÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
December 4, 2017
Hussen boasted of the fact that of the 298 Haitian cases that had been heard so far, only 29 were granted protection. ... Ottawa was deeply implicated in the 2004 US-orchestrated coup that ousted elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, that included US support for far-right and outright fascistic forces.
BBC News
June 22, 2017
The leader of a 2004 coup in Haiti that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been jailed for nine years in the United States for conspiracy to launder drug money. Guy Philippe, 49, had pleaded guilty. He was arrested earlier this year in Haiti after taking part in a live radio show and extradited toÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 26, 2017
Conze Guy Philippe was used by the imperialists to humiliate the Ancestors with a 2004 bi-centennial coup detat. Philippe committed ... empire in 2004. The current indignation against Philippe's perhaps procedural questionable arrest by self-styled “protectors of Haiti sovereignty” is capricious and political.
teleSUR English
March 16, 2017
The paramilitary says that he has damning information about Washington's role in the 2004 coup that he helped lead against Haitian President Aristide. ... After his arrest in Haiti and transport to Miami, Philippe pled not guilty to the charges through his Hollywood, FL-based lawyer, Zeljka Bozanic. On Feb.
teleSUR English
January 6, 2017
Philippe, 48, led the 2004 Haitian coup which overthrew the country's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The coup was backed by then-U.S. President George W. Bush. Philippe was elected in November to the Senate despite being wanted by the DEA for more than a decade onÃÂ ...
The Daily Progress
December 31, 1999
“Trump should 'vehemently condemn' the Haitian government for running a sh**hole country,” wrote Will Chamberlain, one of the organizers of last .... You'd have to not know about the CIA's role in the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, or the U.S. invasions in 1994 and 2004.
SAMAA TV News Pakistan
December 31, 1999
The 45th president of the United States, whose surprise election shocked the world, hosted the TV show “The Apprentice” between 2004 and 2015. ... In Haiti popular carnival singer Michel Martelly — known to the country's youth as “Sweet Micky” — won the April 2011 presidential election with more thanÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
December 5, 2017
Hussen boasted of the fact that of the 298 Haitian cases that had been heard so far, only 29 were granted protection. ... Ottawa was deeply implicated in the 2004 US-orchestrated coup that ousted elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, that included US support for far-right and outright fascistic forces.
Haiti Sentinel
December 4, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. (sentinel.ht) – The impending end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, after being in effect for eight years, is spawning ... It was a cycle of begging that wasn't needed after the 2004 coup d'etat or the 2008 hurricane season when the country was arguably just as dangerous, ...
Macleans.ca
November 24, 2017
Much of my writing is informed by years of research on the west's policy towards the islands, particularly the west's attitudes after the Haitian slave rebellion led to its independence from France in 1804. The roots of Black liberation are spread across the islands, from the Maroon rebellions in Jamaica, to the ...
Quartz
November 23, 2017
He became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1990, before being overthrown. After being elected in 2001 and overthrown again in 2004, Aristide arrived in the South African capital of Pretoria after some back and forth about who would take him after he was deposed. While there, he used his ...
San Francisco Bay View
November 18, 2017
These killings were conducted by units of the Haitian police ... the 2004 coup d'etat against popularly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ...
NPR
November 13, 2017
United Nations peacekeepers have withdrawn from Haiti after more than a decade of patrols. ... Tillias remembers the summer of 2004 for two distinct reasons. ... President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been deposed in a coup.
Jamaica Observer
November 3, 2017
The UN mission, established in June 2004 by a UN Security Council ... Aristide departed Haiti for exile in the aftermath of an armed conflict ...
Voice of America
November 3, 2017
Looking forward to working with you, @minujusth and Haiti to strengthen the rule of law. ... That mission, aimed at stabilizing the country after a 2004 coup, ended in mid-October. ... Page is experienced in dealing with conflict.
The Herald
November 2, 2017
Venezuela, Zim: Revolution, patriotism and resolve ... episode of “Alo, President” filmed in Palmarejo (January 2004), he declared himself ... cost as it has been demonstrated by Haiti in the 18th century, when it dared to be the ...
ReliefWeb
October 24, 2017
So you might have expected conflict to be high on the agenda, when ... paint a stark picture of the level of vulnerability – between 2004 and 2014, ... Somalia and Haiti (all three are countries listed in the Fragile States Index ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 23, 2017
After U.N. Troubles, Haiti Wary of New Justice Mission ... peacekeeping mission in Haiti intended to restore stability after a 2004 coup ended in ...
Peoria Journal Star (blog)
October 16, 2017
Several days ago the UN Peacekeeping Forces (MINUSTAH) departed Haiti for the first time since 2004. See this link which leads you to the ...
The Wire
October 15, 2017
Victims of violence by UN peacekeepers in Haiti say that the agency has neither ... arrival of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in June 2004, ... out by a coup, the island has seen neither war nor armed conflict.
Deutsche Welle
October 15, 2017
At the time, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) had already ... In early 2004, following the coup against President Jean-Bertrand ...
TRT World
October 9, 2017
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) will be .... in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced ...
TRT World
October 9, 2017
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) will be ... began operations in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the ...
DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
October 6, 2017
MINUSTAH began operations in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out ...
Toronto Star
October 5, 2017
MINUSTAH began operations in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide out ...
WTHR
October 5, 2017
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti ... in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced ...
WTHR
October 5, 2017
Gulen is also accused of masterminding last year's failed coup. ... PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti that has ... in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced ...
WTHR
October 5, 2017
Kahl says "otherwise the digital revolution will only benefit those we ... in Haiti in 2004, when a violent rebellion swept the country and forced ...
NACLA
December 31, 1999
The National Party has been in power since a coup removed former President Manuel Zelaya in 2009. Zelaya's ... Such a coalition appeared in Haiti in 2004, mounted the 2009 coup in Honduras, staged a 24-hour impeachment in Paraguay in 2012, and removed a president in Brazil in 2016. SimilarÃÂ ...
Socialist Worker Online
December 31, 1999
With the same rationale, the U.S. is pressuring the United Nations to withdraw the bulk of military forces that have occupied Haiti since 2004--without rectifying ... The U.S. government established TPS in 1990 to cover visitors to the U.S. with legal status who were trapped because of ongoing armed conflict, ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
More than two decades after Haiti's leader disbanded its army, with its history ... aimed at steadying the leadership after the 2004 military coup.
The Conversation US
December 31, 1999
Victims of violence by U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti say that the ... After all, since the arrival of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in June 2004, ... out by a coup, the island has seen neither war nor armed conflict.
Miami Herald
December 31, 1999
“The U.N. has been present in Haiti for nearly 14 years,” Haitian ... arrived in 2004 amid massive street protests and a bloody rebellion that ...
Regina Leader-Post
September 8, 2017
2004: The inaugural Raise-a-Reader sports memorabilia sale. ... 2011: Being a part of “Huddle For Haiti” — a relief mission that was undertaken one year after a ... It was a coup for Greg, and for my favourite newspaper.
African Independent
September 8, 2017
... Press, between 2004 and 2016, the United Nations received almost 2000 ... to “women's role and participation in conflict and peace processes”, it also ... the Central African Republic, Haiti, Liberia, South Sudan and IvoryÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 29, 2017
A family from Haiti walk to the US-Canada border to cross into Canada from ... The current debate has so far focussed on one such barrier: a 2004 agreement with ... Since the coup, Haiti has lurched from disaster to disaster,ÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
August 15, 2017
Haiti's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religion Antonio Rodrigue told Le .... which followed a century of French revenge for the revolution of 1804. ... “Baby Doc,” to the 2004 coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the US bearsÃÂ ...
Newburgh Gazette
August 10, 2017
Canada's deportation ban, which was enacted after a 2004 coup and ... Meanwhile, there's a large Haitian community in Quebec, Canada'sÃÂ ...
BBC News
June 22, 2017
The leader of a 2004 coup in Haiti that toppled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been jailed for nine years in the United States forÃÂ ...
Geographical
December 31, 1999
In June 2004, the UN established just such a mission (MINUSTAH) in Haiti – a ... of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide following a military coup.
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
A Brazilian "blue helmet" soldier for the U.N. mission in Haiti patrols a neighborhood. ... "We arrived in June 2004 when Haiti was experiencing instability ... U.S.-supported coup against then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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