International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

New popular resistance in Latin America

Claudio Katz — 2023-02-07T12:02:14Z

Latin America continues to be an area convulsed by popular rebellions and transformative political processes.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Honduras

A Crisis Caused by Imperialism and Its Oligarchic Cronies

Simón Rodríguez Porras — 2023-01-28T18:53:00Z

On August 22, 2022, coinciding with the 231st anniversary of the start of the Haitian Revolution, the most recent wave of popular mobilizations against the pro-imperialist regime of the Haitian Baldhead Party (PHTK) began.

- IV576 - January 2023 / Haiti

Hunger threatens more than 4 million Haitians

Inter Press Service — 2022-03-30T09:30:10Z

The "Ukraine crisis" [Putin's Russian-led war] may soon worsen Haiti's food security as world prices for the food the country must import rise.

- IV566 - March 2022 / Haiti

Haitian migrants brutalised and deported at US-Mexico border

Malik Miah — 2021-10-28T05:15:42Z

“What happened to Haitians at the Texas border is, unfortunately, not unusual.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / United States (USA), Haiti, Migration

The past haunts the present in Haiti

Karol Péralte — 2021-10-27T03:48:18Z

“Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Americas?”

- IV561 - October 2021 / Haiti

“Haiti has always been the scene for violent conflicts between the powers”

Marco Morel — 2021-08-24T06:42:39Z

The killing on 7 July 2021 of Haiti's president, Jovenel Moïse, highlighted the status as a land of extreme poverty attributed by the mainstream media of the “democratic countries” to the first territory to have abolished slavery on the “American” continent. It is in the perspective of this “historical revenge” that the historian Marco Morel – author of “A Revolução do Haiti e o Brasil escravista – O que não deve ser dito” (“The Haitian Revolution and Slavery-era Brazil - What not to say”) – analyses the current situation in Haiti and its relationship with Brazil, placing them in their historical contexts. The interview was conducted on 10 August by Gabriel Brito for the Brazilian website “Correio da Cidadania”

- IV559 - August 2021 / Haiti

Protests in Haiti repudiate authoritarianism and US intervention Interview

Kim Ives — 2021-07-29T06:49:27Z

From 14 February 2021, thousands of Haitians took to the streets every weekend in the capital of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere to protest President Jovenel Moïse's refusal to abdicate power. Moïse, elected with U.S. backing in November 2016, had exploited an alleged loophole in Haiti's constitution that states the duration of the presidential term is five years. Moïse was subsequently attacked and killed in his home on 7 July, in circumstances which have still not been fully clarified. Arvind Dilawar of Jacobin spoke to Kim Ives, editor of Haïti Liberté about the protests, before Moïse's assassination.

- IV558 - July 2021 / Haiti

Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

Dan Davison — 2021-05-24T10:49:25Z

The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 is increasingly recognized as at least as historically significant as the American and French Revolutions. It began as a slave revolt in what was then the French colony of Saint-Domingue. The rebellion brought about the abolition of slavery in Saint-Domingue in 1793 and across the whole French Empire in 1794.

- Reviews section / Haiti, Reviews

How women shake up the political world

Sabine Lamour — 2020-02-07T10:41:54Z

The originality of the Haitian feminist movement lies in the fact that it can be thought of neither in terms of a wave (first, second or third) nor in terms of a defined current (liberal, black, decolonial, etc.). This movement in contradistinction to other feminist movements contributes enormously to the identification of problematic national realities, such as violence against women and girls, political participation, impunity, national sovereignty and the fight against obscurantism.

- IV541 - February 2020 / Haiti, Women

From scandal to scandal in Haiti

Arthur Mahon — 2020-02-02T06:23:40Z

On 12 January 2010 a powerful earthquake devastated the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The buildings were often badly made, with poor quality cement. About 250,000 people were killed (one person in ten) and hundreds of thousands were injured or missing. Since then, the damaged houses have hardly been repaired and new homes have been built in the same way as they were before the earthquake, without taking into account anti-seismic standards.

- IV541 - February 2020 / Haiti