The extraordinary student mobilization in Quebec has already sustained the longest and largest student strike in the history of North America, and it has…

Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including…

Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it’s now clear that the initial phase of the…

Peter Hallward, and others, on the arrival of US military raises questions of motivations and memories of recent interventions.

Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged…

This article first appeared in the newspaper Haiti Liberté, in nine instalments, October-November 2007.[1] Peter Hallward is the author of a new…

Part 2 of 2 Go back to part 1 III Having thus proved to his own satisfaction that in 2001 Fanmi Lavalas…

Part 1 of 2 Go to Part 2 A review of Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community…

Updated on 6 September 2007[1] Every now and then something happens which helps to shed a little light on the way our…

Guy Philippe was a commander in the Haitian National Police from 1995-2000, and in February 2004 he led an armed insurgency that…