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FEATURES
The United Nations fails Haiti once again
Kevin Edmonds & Ajamu Nangwaya (2014-10-14)
cc BTThis week the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH. This deployment is not based on any principles of humanitarianism, but rather is an imperialist occupation which seeks to make sure that the island’s government can implement and maintain repressive policies favourable to international investors. The occupation force must be withdrawn.
MINUSTAH’s occupation of Haiti: A structure of global complicity
Lorenzo Fiorito (2014-10-14)
cc BCUPeople from countries around the world whose troops are stationed in Haiti under a UN mandate ought to wake up to the reality that this is an occupation force, serving imperialist interests and deeply hated by the Haitian people on account of serious, well-known human rights abuses over the past decade
No to sham elections and US occupation
Open letter from Haiti human rights activists to US Congress (2014-10-14)
cc HTThe situation in Haiti is very bleak, and extremely serious, Haitian activists say. The current regime is very repressive and has refused to hold elections. But it continues to enjoy the support of the US and UN despite the cries of suffering Haitian people
Reflections on the death of an unpunished dictator
Patrick Sylvain (2014-10-14)
cc LSJean-Claude Duvalier, or ‘Baby Doc’, died on 4 October without facing justice for his wanton crimes against the Haitian people. Uneducated in the affairs of governance, he ran the country with an iron fist until the people deposed him.
Heroes dressed in white
Leticia Martínez Hernández (2014-10-15)
cc MACuba recently sent a medical team of 165, consisting of 63 doctors and 102 nurses, to Sierra Leone to support efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak. It is a mission they were happy to undertake and it goes right into the heart of Cuba’s people-to-people solidarity.
Heroes of our time
Fidel Castro Cruz (2014-10-14)
cc JPUThe departure of the first batch of Cuban medical personnel to fight the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone rekindles in the mind of Fidel Castro memories of Cuba’s military support for the liberation struggle in Angola. It is continuation of the Black revolutionary tradition
Homage to Havana
Mandisi Majavu (2014-10-15)
cc FlagsCuba’s contribution to the development of post-independent Africa has always been based on solidarity, liberty and anti-white supremacy. By this principled stand, Cuba builds on and sustains the spirit of the Haitian revolution.
38 years of injustice
2014-10-15
cc TV6 October is the anniversary of the first act of terrorism against civilian aviation in the Western hemisphere – the unparalleled Cubana air disaster on the coastline of Barbados on October 6, 1976. Cubana flight 455 was hit by two bombs just after take off from the then Seawell Airport (now the Grantley Adams International Airport) in Barbados
Stop the U.S. blockade of Cuba now!
Chris Fry (2014-10-15)
cc GPThe Cuban government estimates that this economic war against their country has cost their nation one trillion, 112 billion, 534 million dollars [$1,112,534,000,000].
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