Haiti

April 25, 2016
Ellie Happel

The destructive impact of metal mining in the Dominican Republic has lessons for neighboring Haiti, where activists are seeking a moratorium on all mining projects. 

January 22, 2016
Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell

Two years ago, Haiti's presidential frontrunner Jovenel Moïse displaced hundreds of farmers to build an exporting banana plantation. It's an omen of things to come.

November 12, 2015
Jake Johnston

Five years after the international community helped overturn Haiti's election results, observers are tacitly supporting an increasingly anti-democratic process.

July 28, 2015
Mark Schuller

A century after the U.S. military invasion of Haiti in 1915, a U.N. "stabilization mission" continues to compromise the nation's political and economic sovereignty.

July 14, 2015
Amelia Hintzen

Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship.

April 6, 2015
Nicki Fleischner

A Dominican woman of Haitian descent finds herself stateless in her own country. 

February 21, 2014
The international media’s escalation of the Venezuelan crisis, and their complete silence regarding Haiti, highlights U.S. inconsistency in upholding the values of human rights and democracy.
January 21, 2014
The most well known Venezuelan assistance to Haiti has come in the form of Venezuela's PetroCaribe program. But as the neighboring Dominican Republic passes controversial immigration control measures, Venezuela’s support has grown to encompass diplomatic assistance as well.    
November 20, 2013
Imagine the sort of metal police barricades you see at protests. These are unevenly lined up like so many crooked teeth on the Dominican Republic’s side of the river that acts as its border with Haiti. Like dazed versions of U.S. Border Patrol agents, the armed Dominican border guards sit at their assigned posts, staring at the opposite shore.
October 23, 2013
It has been almost four years since Haiti was hit by the 7.0 earthquake which left over 100,000 dead and an estimated 1.5 million people homeless. For the 278,000 internally displaced people who currently remain in the tent camps, they have been living an extremely precarious existence without access to the most basic services, and they are constantly under the threats of exposure to cholera and forced evictions.

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