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The Haitian Migration Crisis: Made in the U.S.A.

October 15, 2021

Through his administration’s recent policies towards Haiti and Haitian migrants, President Joe Biden is carrying out a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, this represents continuity in a decades-long, bi-partisan policy toward Haiti.

Haitians Reject Calls For U.S. Military Intervention

July 30, 2021

U.S. media has called for a U.S. military intervention in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. MintPress News spoke to Haitians to ask them what they think about a possible fourth U.S. military invasion of Haiti since 1915.

Haitians Reject Calls For U.S. Military Intervention

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U.S. Regime Change Echos in the Caribbean

July 23, 2021

Having annihilated the island’s native people, the Europeans brought in African men and women who had been captured and enslaved. What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy.

Suspected Assassins of Haitian President Moïse Trained by U.S., Linked to Pro-Coup Oligarchy

July 10, 2021

As shock grips the Caribbean island nation of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian government has carried out a campaign to arrest suspects it alleges are responsible for the murder.

Suspected Assassins of Haitian President Moïse Trained by U.S., Linked to Pro-Coup Oligarchy

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Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)

March 1, 2019

It is no surprise that Miami and South Florida, once again, buzzes with activity as Trump’s CIA launches coups in Latin America.

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Haiti and America’s Historic Debt

January 15, 2018

President Trump says his “tough” language on immigration, which reportedly included decrying “shithole” nations, didn’t apply to Haiti but he appears to know little of America’s debt to Haiti, which Robert Parry described in 2010.

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Clintons Treat Haiti as Their Own Vassal State

November 16, 2015

Within the last two centuries, there have been two world leaders who decided that entire nations should be their own personal property, the exploit at their will. The first was King Leopold II of Belgium who claimed personal ownership of the inappropriately named Congo Free State, a repressive colony of not Belgium but of its king, a notorious womanizer and patron of prostitutes…

Wayne Madsen

Humanitarian Occupation of Haiti: 100 Years and Counting

July 29, 2015

The U.S. Marines invaded Haiti ostensibly to restore order, disrupted by the kako, an armed peasant resistance. From 1910 to the 1915 invasion of the U.S. Marines, Haiti had 7 presidents, marked with violent clashes between two factions of Haiti’s ruling elites. The exploits of the occupying forces were well documented, including by soldiers themselves. Faustin Wirkus declared himself to be the “White King of La Gonave.” Many troops were from Jim Crow South, and they took their racism and white supremacy with them. This racism colored how they saw elements of Haitian culture and folklore, and in turn how the rest of the world was to see Haiti. “Voodoo” and “zombies” were popularized by Hollywood, as the film industry was just taking off, announced by explicitly white supremacist Birth of a Nation. Haiti continued to play “boogieman,” scaring foreigners through exotification.

Humanitarian Occupation of Haiti: 100 Years and Counting

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