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Harvard International Review (HIR), November 27, 2020 Hidden behind years of societal and governmental oppression, the current humanitarian crisis in the Dominican Republic combines racism, US imperialism, and the demands of the global sugar market. While the world grapples with a racial reckoning and a historic pandemic, the violent history of the bateyes remains absent … Read more

F+L Daily, November 27, 2020 Total has signed an agreement to sell its retail business in Haiti, which consists of a network of 92 service stations and general trade fuel sales operations. This agreement has been finalized with Bandari Corporation Ltd., a consortium formed by several local and regional major players. “This transaction with local … Read more

For more than 160 years, the United States and Haiti have disputed the ownership of tiny Navassa Island. Tampa Bay Times, by the Miami Herald 1/26/20 MIAMI — When the eccentric rapper Kanye West made headlines last month claiming the president of Haiti had gifted him an island to which a Texan had already laid … Read more

World Bank, November 19, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2020 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved US$7.75 million in additional financing for the Resilient Productive Landscapes in Haiti Project, which aims to improve adoption of resilient agriculture and landscape management practices. “The World Bank is supporting Haiti’s agricultural production during the emergency … Read more

Miami Herald, by Jacqueline Charles, Novermbr 13, 2020 Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti. This time it involves a price dispute between the Haitian government and its latest supplier of fuel, Preble-Rish, the politically connected firm that was linked last year to a group of armed American mercenaries who were arrested in Haiti … Read more

Quixote Center, Written by Tom Ricker, October 29, 2020. The headlines on Haiti are once again sensational. Haiti is “on the brink,” “burning,” facing “barbarism” and so on. To be clear, Haiti is facing another trough in the decades long up and down struggle for democracy and accountability. The contours of the latest manifestation of … Read more

Miami Herald, by Jacqueline Charles, October 27, 2020 If Haitian President Jovenel Moïse thought his good relations with Washington would allow him to achieve what all Haitian presidents have wanted— to delay elections and change the country’s constitution to his liking— the Trump administration begs to differ. Moïse, in a surprise announcement last Friday, told … Read more

Haiti Liberte, By André Juste, Oct. 20, 2020 Emmanuel Merisier produced expressionistic paintings melding European modernist primitivism and the familiar modern variant that his Haitian compatriots have cobbled together for over a century. In his twilight years, he forthrightly reconciled the psychic tensions in his art by tacking preponderantly toward his country’s aesthetic legacy. Merisier … Read more

Port-au-Prince, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) The Prosecutor’s Office in Haiti’s capital threatened on Friday to sanction those practicing illicit speculation, especially commercial companies that exceed the profit thresholds established by the government. In the statement signed by Commissioner Ducarmel Gabriel, the official denounced the ‘illegal’ practice of merchants in the metropolitan area, who ‘continue selling … Read more