By: Joseph Guyler Delva - Reuters

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Demonstrators erected burning barricades in the
streets of Haiti's southern city of Les Cayes on Monday to protest
rising food prices in the impoverished Caribbean country.

The Jamaica Observer

JAMAICA is one of 18 regional countries which will benefit from a drawdown of approximately US$40 million from a special PetroCaribe fund aimed at helping them deal with global food security and price increases.

By: Nikolas Kozloff - NACLA

By: Slavoj Zizek - New Statesman

A new account of Haiti's recent history shows how the genuinely radical politics of Lavalas and its leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, proved too threatening to the country's wealthy elite and their foreign backers.

Democracy Now

Haiti Liberté

August 12, 2008 marks the first anniversary of the kidnapping of Lovinsky
Pierre-Antoine, 53, a tireless human rights and anti-imperialist activist
who was the national coordinator of the September 30th Foundation.

By: Kevin Pina - Haiti Liberté

By: Sarah Hamburger - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)

By: Diana Barahona - NarcoSphere

By: Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte

In recent years, Haiti seems to insert itself into every U.S. presidential
election. Refugees, military occupations, and sweatshop legislation have all
become campaign issues.

Immediately after the Canadian-backed coup that deposed President Aristide, the now-defunct International Legal Resources Centre (Centre International des Ressources Juridiques - CIRJ) criticised the Canadian government for not designating all members of Aristide’s Lavalas government as criminals.

by Joe Emersberger

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of the Haitian government for the past four years. "From the beginning, the State failed its obligation to protect Mr.

By Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion!

During the lead up to Haiti’s 2004 coup, the Québec Association of International Cooperation Organizations (L’Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale - AQOCI) supported the campaign to oust Aristide’s elected government...Then, after the regime change, this coalition of several dozen large aid agencies not only ignored the newly-installed regime’s human rights abuses, it played a key role in quashing an effort by Montréal’s anti-war coalition (the Collectif Échec à la guerre) to expose Canadian complicity in the coup.

Haiti Liberte

By Kevin Skerrett - Canada Haiti Action Network

There are times when the things that people say — or publish — can get people killed...On December 14, 2006, Rights and Democracy (R&D) — Canada’s best-funded "human rights organization" — may well have done exactly that when it published a news release about a crime spree in Haiti. Following a series of well-publicized kidnappings in Port-au-Prince, R&D published a statement ridiculing the recently elected Haitian government’s "policy of dialogue with violent gangs," and its supposed preference for "dialogue at the expense of justice"...The content of R&D’s text — blaming all of the kidnappings and other crimes on "armed gangs" from the capital’s poorest neighbourhoods — matched the ugly tone of Haiti’s right-wing elite-owned media.