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Censoring Speech in Haiti’s Most Celebrated Agora (part one) – Haiti
February 20, 2013 11 min. read

  During a live interview aired on Radio Scoop FM  (107.7) 48 hours before Haiti’s carnival festivities, President Michel Martelly dispelled all rumors surrounding band selections for Cap-Haitien’s 2013 Carnival possession. “It was I, who personally decided to exclude bands from the carnival parade,” declared the president. “The decision to exclude bands, such as Brothers Posse […]

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Haiti: Catherine Flon’s Needle, Flag and Undeniable Legacy
May 27, 2012 4 min. read

Haitians across the globe celebrated, on May 18, 2012, the birth of a symbol: Haiti’s bi-color blue and red; hence, commemorated 209 years since that solemn day in 1803 when Catherine Flon sewed the first Haitian flag. Mobilized around their collective aspiration, adamant bravery and inalienable rights to liberty and equality, Haiti’s Founding founders embarked on […]

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Haiti: Political Ineptitude Highlights Haiti’s Autocratic Government
May 4, 2012 4 min. read

“The current governance of the country has nothing to do with democracy,” declared Evans Paul, leader of United Democratic Convention KID (French acronym), intervening live on Invite du Jour. “The country faces an autocracy in which the closest advisors of the head of state dares not provide him any council,” added Paul on Radio Vision 2000’s […]

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Haiti: Con­gress­woman Waters Urges State Depart­ment to Use U.S. Influ­ence to Avoid Chaos in Haiti
April 27, 2012 6 min. read

April 26, 2012                                                                                                           Con­tact: Mikael Moore For Imme­di­ate Release                                                                      […]

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Haiti: Bogota Called for Collective Cooperation on Haiti at Summit
April 18, 2012 3 min. read

“We must improve our cooperation with Haiti,” pleaded Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to his 32 American homologous partners attending the Sixth Summit of the Americas the weekend of April 14-15. Intervening on behalf of the earthquake stricken nation, Santos said rather than helping individually, countries should collaborate to maximize their impact on Haiti’s recovery. Haiti’s […]

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Haiti: Haitians Demand U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten Expelled
April 16, 2012 3 min. read

Suspicions surrounding Martelly’s nationality snowballed the national press for months, as he taunted senators and even dared them to dislodge his passports from his pockets. “The president’s passport will remain in the president’s pockets,” joked Martelly to journalists. “You have no legal authority to investigate my nationality,” he later sniped at persisting senators. However, when […]

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Haiti: Haitian Lawmakers Moved to Isolate President Martelly
March 29, 2012 3 min. read

An almighty Head of State cornered by a trigger-happy parliamentary firing squad must obtain a senate majority to see his designated Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe through the ratification process. Many senators, namely John Joel Joseph who represents the West Department, exhorted resigning Foreign Affairs Minister Lamothe, rather than relying on President Michel Martelly, to […]

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