The Crisis in Haiti: Perspectives from the Leadership of Fanmi Lavalas


by www.counterpunch.org

www.counterpunch.org— The Haiti Action Committee is honored to send out this transcript of a presentation by Fanmi Lavalas executive committee members, Dr. Maryse Narcisse and Joel “Pacha” Vorbe, delivered via zoom during our April 6th event at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland, California. In their presentation, the two Lavalas representatives analyze the current disastrous situation in More

www.plenglish.com—Violence and crisis in Haiti impacts all areas, warns WFP. United Nations, Apr 25 (Prensa Latina) Violence in Haiti is today causing a political, humanitarian and security crisis impacting on all areas, said Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program (WFP). The post Violence and crisis in Haiti impacts all areas, warns WFP first appeared on Prensa Latina.

www.counterpunch.org—Debt, Dictatorship and Haiti’s Crisis: It Has Not Always Been This Way. Social disorder. Prisons emptied of violent criminals by gangs looking to rebuild their ranks. Schools, hospitals, and pharmacies targeted for looting and frequently burned. Corpses left rotting in the streets for fear of succumbing to the same fate by attempts to remove them. The capital’s port was captured and ransacked, with famine threatening. Meanwhile, on Haiti’s northern coast, cruise ships still disgorge foreign tourists to the protected (with no shortage of irony) “Columbus Cove Beach.”...

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