Haiti

By Maxine Lowy Clerina didn’t dare venture out alone without her husband. Her 11- and 9-year-old children went everywhere with her to translate for their mother. Like many Haitian immigrant women, she was apprehensive and felt vulnerable in the strange…

Nearly half of the population is facing acute food insecurity. Haiti is in the grip of a worsening humanitarian crisis, with nearly half of the population likely facing acute food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC)…

A hundred Latin American and Caribbean organisations spoke out today in solidarity with the struggle of the Haitian people and to reject the authorisation to invade Haiti approved yesterday by the UN Security Council. The new “Multinational Security Support Mission”,…

With world leaders gathering in New York this week for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly – and against the backdrop of Russia’s latest nuclear threats – five more nations have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of…

  Just like Chile and Ecuador, Haiti awakened, and now there is little that will contain the popular uprising that seeks to hold Moïse to account for his actions during his presidency. DemocraciaAbierta -openDemocracy During the past month, protests in…

By Frances Madeson, Truthout It’s getting hard not to notice that U.S. corporate media is covering pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong far more than pro-democracy forces in the Caribbean. It can be challenging to catch up on significant events in…