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The progressive score on Haiti: U.K. 9, U.S. 45, Canada 0

As of Feb. 16, 2011, nine U.K. MPs have endorsed a notice of motion congratulating the government of Haiti for issuing a passport to its exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Early Day Motion #1378, entitled "Jean-Bertrand Aristide" states:

"That this House welcomes the announcement by the government of Haiti that former President Aristide will be issued with a passport and thus able to return from exile in South Africa; deplores the manner in which he was removed from Haiti; and hopes his return will help lead to social justice and democracy for the people."

Early Day Motions are rarely debated in Britain. The significance of #1378 will be in how much support this statement gathers over the next session of the U.K. parliament.

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Haiti, the UN and cholera on election day

Photo: Kevin Edmonds

My third day in Haiti, walking down Avenue John Brown in the center of Port-au-Prince I was confronted point blank with the desperation of the cholera situation.

On the side of the road, a shirtless man with brown pants and no shoes lay on the sidewalk outside a busy market entrance -- eyes open, with his arm in the gutter and flies buzzing around his face. He was dead. A couple photographers quickly snapped photos and jumped back into their vehicles as the ambulance crew arrived to pick up the body. He was another victim of an outbreak which will only kill the poor and the vulnerable -- which unfortunately makes Haiti a deadly conductor for the spread of the disease.

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EXCLUSIVE: Aristide on Haiti’s earthquake, cholera, the election, reparation and exile

Elections are on Nov. 28 and Haiti’s deposed president gives his first interview in four years

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EXCLUSIVE: Aristide on Haiti's earthquake, cholera, the election, reparation and exile
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Episode 39: Haiti's new dictatorship, a conversation with Justin Podur

November 7, 2012
| Author Justin Podur issues a powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community about the international occupation of Haiti.
Length: 23:18 minutes (32.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti

September 28, 2012
| The use of irregular armed organizations to suppress democratic struggles has a long history in Haiti. That history extends to the current government of President Martelly.
Length: 15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Wikileaks papers confirm U.S. interference in Haiti

February 6, 2012
| In 2011, Wikileaks released secret U.S. government cables to the independent newspaper Haiti Liberte. The cables reveal a long history of interference in the internal politics of Haiti.
Length: 16:35
Progressive Voices
Progressive Voices

Updates from Haiti: Roger Annis

November 21, 2011
| We speak with Roger Annis, co-ordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network, on his recent delegation to Haiti, the detrimental effects of corporate NGOs on the rebuilding process, and more.
Length: 30:59
Progressive Voices
Progressive Voices

Haiti and Canadian imperialism

July 26, 2011
| We speak with Kevin Edmonds of the Canada Haiti Action Network and Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti on rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake, the Canadian coup d'etat of 2004, and more.
Length: 27:27
Opinion

Haiti: President Martelly must not waive Baby Doc's crimes

Michel Martelly makes an appearance at the Lycee Petionville polling station during the recent Haitian elections. Photo: Rozanna Fang/Flickr

The inauguration of Michel Martelly to the Haitian presidency on May 14 should sound serious alarm for those concerned with human rights, justice and the rule of law in the country. In a pre-inaugural interview with the Montreal daily La Presse on April 18, Martelly put forward a plan of national reconciliation which would include granting amnesty to former Haitian ruler Jean Claude Duvalier.

The president-elect later backed away from this idea on advice from his counsel. But his connections to the former dictator present some worrying potential for ongoing efforts to prosecute him.

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Aristide returns to Haiti after seven years

Late at night on March 17, former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in Johannesburg. The following morning, he arrived in Haiti. It was just over seven years after he was kidnapped from his home in a U.S.-backed coup d'etat. Haiti has been ravaged by a massive earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people and left a million and a half homeless. A cholera epidemic carried in by United Nations occupation forces could sicken almost 800,000. A majority of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. Now, Aristide, by far the most popular figure in Haiti today and the first democratically elected president of the first black republic in the world, has returned home.

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