1. Chávez in Haiti, a Clear Alternative to the “International Community”
(Matching tags: coup, aristide, aid, venezuela, petrocaribe)

...  Opposition to 2004 Coup In 2004, following the U.S.-backed coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Chávez was one of only a few voices in the region condemning what had taken place and refusing to recognize ...

2. Heavy Rains Threaten to Bring More Cholera Cases; What to Do About It?
(Matching tags: aristide, sanitation, disease, ngos, red cross, cholera)

... the Bush administration, directed the Inter-American Development Bank, in a highly unusual move, to withhold loans to the Aristide government that would have provided hundreds of millions of dollars for ...

3. "Brazil, MINUSTAH, Need a Timetable for Withdrawal" - Mark Weisbrot in Folha de Sao Paulo
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, aristide, minustah, disease, election, wikileaks)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot wrote in Folha de São Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, yesterday: U.S. diplomatic cables now released from Wikileaks make it clearer than ever before ...

4. MINUSTAH Brought Cholera Into Haiti; Sought to Keep Aristide Out
(Matching tags: rainy season, aristide, minustah, disease, wikileaks)

Revelations about MINUSTAH are in the news again. First, a new study published in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal affirms that a MINUSTAH camp was the origin of the cholera ...

5. LIVE BLOG: Aristide Returns to Haiti
(Matching tags: aristide, elections, oas, wikileaks)

As has been widely reported, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is now back in Haiti, ending his seven year exile in South Africa. We'll be updating this space throughout the evening and ...

6. A Corps Revived? Both Presidential Candidates Want to Bring Back the Haitian Army
(Matching tags: aristide, minustah, elections)

... an army since President Aristide disbanded it in 1994 following the results of polling that showed 62 percent in favor of the move. Describing men who “represent nothing more than an informal movement ...

7. Washington Can’t Block Aristide’s Return or Deny Haiti’s Sovereignty - Mark Weisbrot in The Guardian
(Matching tags: un, aristide, minustah, elections, oas)

... out of the country – as happened to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.  ...

8. Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return
(Matching tags: aristide, elections, fanmi lavalas, wikileaks)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in The Guardian (UK) today: It didn’t get much attention in the media, but U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did something quite surprising on Sunday. After ...

9. Laura Flynn: "In Haiti, Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for Aristide"
(Matching tags: aristide, duvalier)

Today in the Huffington Post, Laura Flynn, writer, activist, and board member of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy, writes movingly about the "constant terror" of life under Jean-Claude Duvalier and ...

10. "Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti" - Mark Weisbrot
(Matching tags: un, aristide, minustah, wikileaks)

... wrote the following, distributed by McClatchy: Haiti’s infamous dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country’s first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ...