Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsInterview By Ashley Smith BURLINGTON, USA (IDN) – Some eighteen months after the disastrous earthquake that killed 300,000 people and drove 2 million into temporary camps, Haiti’s crisis remains as difficult as ever. Ashley Smith talked to Kim Ives, a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, [...]
Haitian Trafficking Victims Discovered in Ecuador
April 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – The four young Haitians told legal authorities that they were offered complete scholarships to the university, but that once they reached Ecuador they were locked up in a house and made to pay 150 dollars a month for rent [...]
HAITI: Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 1, 2011 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Last year, tens of thousands of tonnes of tools, seeds and plant cuttings were distributed to almost 400,000 Haitian farming families, perhaps one-third to one-half of the country’s farming population. The 20-million-dollar programme – spearheaded by the U.N. [...]
HAITI: Anger Erupts at U.N. as Cholera Toll Nears 1,000
November 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 16, 2010 (IPS) – "People are going to take the body to MINUSTAH to show them what they did," Jean-Luc Surfin told IPS by phone as riots erupted against Haiti’s U.N. peacekeeping force on Monday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. Surfin, a [...]
HAITI: As Cholera Spreads, Heavy Rains Wreak Havoc in Camps
November 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ansel Herz LEOGANE, Nov 7, 2010 (IPS) – Standing on a raised piece of pavement across from the makeshift home where she has lived for the past 10 months, Violet Nicola threw up her hands. "Our houses are broken again. I’ve lost my things. They don’t do [...]
HAITI: Cholera Outbreak Highlights Clean Water Crisis
October 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 28, 2010 (IPS) – The man arrived from Arcahaie, near St. Marc in central Haiti where a cholera outbreak exploded last week, initially overwhelming the local medical grid. It was an hour’s journey to a hospital in Lafiteau, near the capital, where he [...]
Cholera Cases Emerge in Haiti’s Capital
October 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 24, 2010 (IPS) – Days after an outbreak of cholera began in Haiti’s rural Artibonite region, killing at least 200 people, there are now five confirmed cases of cholera in the busy capital city. The cases "do not represent spread of the epidemic" [...]
Haiti’s 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain
October 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* GRAND GOÂVE, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in Haiti’s 1,354 squalid refugee camps. She and 1,200 others are jammed into 300 tents and plastic tarp-shacks on a soccer field in Grand Goâve. Like [...]
HAITI: Finding Butterflies Among the Rubble
October 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 1, 2010 (IPS) – Michele Garlin had massive headaches after Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake killed some 230,000 people and left 1.3 million others, like herself, homeless. "I also had insomnia and, even if there was no aftershock, I thought my bed was shaking all [...]
HAITI: Empty Promises, Empty Votes
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – "We are not going to the election in tents. We want housing before elections." These words were chanted in Creole and held high on placards during a recent demonstration at Haiti’s crumpled National Palace, where protesters decried "inhumane" conditions [...]
