HAITI’S PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL – WHITE HOUSE REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING PLAN B
BY: EMMANUEL ROY Forty years of failed leadership, corruption, and sheer incompetence have turned Haiti into a failed state controlled by criminal gangs financed by Haitian businessmen. While Haiti burns, West Africa is experiencing the emergence of young, vibrant, and progressive leadership. A new axis of resistance is spanning the Sahel region of Africa, from […]
HAITI NEEDS A FOREIGN CARETAKER GOVERNMENT:
Does Haiti need a permanent U.N. mission in Haiti? Perhaps it does. If you cannot take care of your own affairs, maybe you need others to do it for you. We often get emotional about the apparent breach of Haiti’s sovereignty by the U.N. and other nations. Have we ever taken a minute to reflect […]
Faux Nationalism: How Haiti change course to a Better Future
Haiti’s chance for development to be on par with industrialized nations requires bold innovative initiatives. Currently, Haiti is near the bottom on all human social indicators. We are number two in the world for brain-drain (i.e., intellect expatriating to other countries). We are number two in corruption (poverty breads corruption). We are in the top […]
What a Biden Administration Would Mean to Haiti
By Nathaniel Ballantyne In September 1991, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, first democratically-elected President of Haiti in modern times, was removed by a coup d’état orchestrated by Raoul Cédras, then General of the Haitian Army, during the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration. The American government’s policy vis-a-vis Haiti was that Democracy was good as a matter of […]
ADOS’ Politics of Division could cost Democrats this election
Reprint by Permission from Haiti Observateur The best way to keep control of a group of people is to maintain division within their community, to keep them fighting among themselves. Thus, they cannot come together to fight a common enemy. A serious and flown debate has taken root in the Black community in the United States […]
U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATE OF POLITICAL MISSION IN HAITI – CHINA AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION ABSTAINED:
By a vote of 13 to zero and two abstentions (China and Russian Federation), the United Nations Security Council adopted U.N. Resolution 2547 extending for another year the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) until 15 October 2021. The Council did so in accordance with the terms laid out in the […]
The Silence of the US Attorney General on the Militia Group’s Plot against the Michigan Governor Is Troubling and Dangerous
Reprinted by Permission from Haiti Observateur President Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States in a short period of time than any enemy, foreign or domestic, could have done in a hundred years. These damages were not done only by Trump. He has had many accomplices, one of whom is his most […]
FLORIDA: The Haitian Vote may determine the outcome of the U.S. Presidential Election
Reprinted from Haiti Observateur Depending on Haitian fatigue or not, Donald J. Trump could end up with another four years in the White House, despite his dereliction of duty. For, American presidential elections are not decided by one man one vote. If that were the case, in 2000, Al Gore would have been president instead of George W. Bush, and Hillary Clinton would have been our 45th president […]
CONFUSED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KANYE WEST VISITS HAITI
By: Nathaniel Ballantyne Rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West landed at the Hugo Chávez International Airport in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien shortly after 10: 20 a.m. on Friday, September 25. West, who is visiting Haiti without his wife Kim Kardashian, was greeted by two Haitian women wearing traditional maxi dress holding two bouquets of […]
AN INTERNATIONAL SHAME-HAITIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVED IN HALLWAY
August 19, 2020|Daily News Update, HAITI AN INTERNATIONAL SHAME – HAITIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVED IN THE HALLWAY BY US SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO Haiti President Jovenel Moise missed the 350th-anniversary celebration of the founding of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien only to get dissed by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Moise, who was in […]
HAITI’S CONTRIBUTION: THE FIRST NATION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY
July 12, 2020|Daily News Update, HAITI Global protests in support of Black Lives Matter have systematically exposed the legacies of slavery and colonialism today. This has put many on the defensive. White people are quick to tout stories of abolition, emphasizing the path bravely forged by imperial powers like Britain and France. They diminish the realities and […]
Jovenel Moise: Don’t Sell Haiti’s Constitution
June 6, 2020|Daily News Update, HAITI, US POLITICS Haiti By: Emmanuel Roy Haiti, a failed nation-state, is the epitome of dysfunctionality. American foreign policy towards Haiti historically supports that dysfunctionality and loss of capacity for self-government at every opportunity for obvious reasons that I will explain below. Recently, regional organizations like the OAS (Organization […]