Category Archive: Haiti

Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice

On Wednesday, July 14, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs will issue a lengthy report entitled, “The International Republican Institute (IRI) Promulgating Democracy of Another Variety.” In this report, Yale Researcher and COHA Fellow Jessica Leight contends that the IRI is …

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El Payaso: Washington’s Amiable Entertainer – The good works of Haiti’s interim-Prime Minister Gerard Latortue

• Latortue has asserted that the average Haitian does not know CARICOM exists, and that an official in the previous administration didn’t even know what the acronym stands for – ouch! What Latortue didn’t mention was that until Washington imposed …

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Taking a Closer Look at Washington’s Anti-Aristide Game Plan for Haiti

Murky circumstances surrounding the departure of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide may at last be clarified. The resolution by the Organization of American States (OAS) in favor of an investigation of the U.S-orchestrated removal of the Haitian leader is a triumph …

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Giving Haitian Self-Rule a Bad Name

The euphemistically named “interim government” in Haiti is in fact flagrantly unconstitutional and not even remotely legitimate; rather, it represents de facto rule, distinguished primarily by its U.S. authorship. This condition exposes its major flaw: the current government has no …

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Another Failed Washington Regime Change: Haiti’s Caricature of Democratic Governance

On Sunday, June 20, a U.N. peacekeeping mission led by Brazil will take over command authority in Haiti from U.S. forces, which have witnessed an alarming deterioration of the political and economic situation on the island in recent weeks. The …

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