While protests in Haiti today stem from decades of economic and political crisis, the current wave represents something unprecedented: a widespread crisis of faith in democracy and the neoliberal state.
En Haïti, la mémoire collective a pratiquement effacé tout souvenir des exécutions extrajudiciaires et autres crimes contre l'humanité commis par les régimes de François "Papa Doc" Duvalier et de son fils et successeur Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. Est-il possible que cette amnésie collective bénéficie au fils et au petit-fils de ces dictateurs cruels?
Widespread extrajudicial killings and other crimes against humanity have been all but wiped from Haiti’s historical memory. Will the son and grandson of two brutal dictators capitalize on this collective amnesia?
The Trump administration’s ongoing detention and deportation of asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border has echoes of the U.S. internment of over 40,000 Haitians fleeing violence in their homeland in the early 1990s.
Legendary Haitian writer and intellectual Jean Claude Fignolé talks about his role in founding the Spiralist literary movement, the influence of Vaudou on Haitian culture, and the relationship between evangelical churches and political instability.
The two leading candidates in the upcoming Dominican Republic presidential election differ little when it comes to economic policy and the targeting of migrant and migrant-descendant communities.
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.
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.
