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Directed by Johnathan Demme, The Agronomist is a documentary about the life of Jean Dominique, a respected Haitian journalist and human rights activist who’s life was dedicated to the Haitian People.

Described by his family as “an agronomist without land,” Jean was a source of hope and inspiration throughout his entire career. He survived years of threats and beatings at the hands of Duvalier’s Tonton Macoutes and was twice forced into exile—only to be assassinated as he arrived for his morning news program on April 3, 2000.

During the 1960s, he founded Haiti’s first film club, and then made one of …

In 2004, the United States, with the complicity of France and Canada, forcibly removed democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office, bringing Haiti’s 10 year experience with democracy to a brutal end.

After the coup, 6,000 United Nations Peacekeepers came to Haiti to legitimize the ‘regime change’, and to purportedly help restore peace and democracy in Haiti, in part, by hunting down members of Lavalas, the popular movement that swept Aristide into office.

Since 2004, thousands of Lavalas members, so-called bandits, have been killed or driven into hiding.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently on a mission in Latin America, pushing forward a “Canadian-made” free trade model which he wants applied throughout the region. Harper has also been going to incredible lengths to improve Canada’s image in the South, making impressive statements claiming that Canada the perfect, Canada the majestic, Canada the awesome — seeks only to free Latin America from the evil scourge that is Latin America.

On the 15th he set out to Colombia, where he met with President Alvaro Uribe to discuss …

A Very Canadian Coup d’état in Haiti
Press for Conversion! Magazine, March 2007
Published by COAT

Here is the most recent edition of Press for Conversion!, a Magazine by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. This is the most comprehensive resource I’ve been able to find that focuses on Canada’s role in Haiti, so I’ve posted it (with permission) in it’s entirety. Each Section that begins with a link is a pdf file - Ahni.

Haiti’s 2004 Coup and its Aftermath
In early 2004, a U.S.-funded, trained and armed paramilitary force of former CIA-backed death squads and soldiers from the …

Chávez and Venezuela: Duty, not Charity, to Haiti
By: Wadner Pierre. HaitiAnalysis.com
March 20, 2007

On Monday March 12, 2007, beginning at about 7:30 AM throughout the streets of the capital the cry of “Chávez” was heard. In front of the airport in Port-au-Prince legions of supporters arrived minute after minute. “Chávez, Chávez, it is you whom we seek… President Préval needs your help to return Aristide” people sang joyfully on their way to greet Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

By 10:00 AM supporters had set up signs and streamers praising Chávez and denoucing Bush.: “Viva Chávez, Down Bush”, “President Aristide must return to …

Three years later: Canada must be held accountable for Haiti coup
Derrick O’Keefe, www.sevenoaksmag.com
February 28, 2007

“Canada has made a significant contribution to stability in Haiti,” noted George W. Bush, in remarks to the media after meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in July 2006 (1).

Three years after Canada helped lead a coup d’état against the democratically elected government of Haiti, almost no one in Ottawa has been held accountable for this crime against the sovereignty of the hemisphere’s poorest nation.

On February 29, 2004, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was spirited out of the country on a plane by US Marines. Canadian Special Forces, …

Ayiti: occupation or freedom?
by José Antonio Gutiérrez
Jan 16 2007

Aba lenperyalis! Viv larevolisyon!

The following, is an abridged version of the article in Spanish “Ayití, entre la liberación y la ocupación” Full references and a longer discussion of the main ideas of this article can be found there.

Haiti makes it to the news only when there’s turmoil or a disaster. But for most of the year, the silent drama of the poorest country of the Western hemisphere is conveniently ignored by the world. Last year, on the 13th of February, Haiti made it to the news as the masses took to …