HOPE The juxtaposition of Haiti’s heroic 1804 independence and its current crisis of gang violence reveals a stark contrast—yet also a profound opportunity to reclaim its legacy of resilience. Historical Triumph (1804):Haiti’s revolution was a groundbreaking act of defiance. Enslaved people shattered colonial oppression, abolished slavery, and forged the world’s first Black republic, inspiring global movements for freedom. This victory proved Haiti’s capacity to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds through unity, courage, and self-determination. Current Crisis (2024):Today, armed...

Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Gerard Jean-Juste by Bill Quigley T hough Haitian priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste died May 27, 2009, at age 62, in Miami from a stroke and breathing problems, he remains present to millions. Justice-loving people world-wide mourn his death and celebrate his life. Pere Jean-Juste worked uncompromisingly for justice for Haitians and the poor, both in Haiti and in the U.S.  

  Protest and UN killing at Lascahobas   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gunshots were fired during a confrontation between U.N. troops and demonstrators on Haiti's central plateau that injured at least three people, peacekeepers said Thursday. Authorities said they could not confirm radio reports that two people died in the violence, which occurred Wednesday during a protest against a two-month electricity outage in Lascahobas, a remote town 14 miles (23 kilometers) from the Dominican Republic border.

  Haiti debout! Saki tombe na vanje yo Dr.Keny Bastien La resurgence calculee des kidnappeurs indique tres clairement que le gouvernement en exercice meprise ouvertement et litteralement la population qu'elle a pour devoir de proteger. L'assassinat et le kidnapping de Farah Juste et de Mme Dumarsais Estime reviennent encore a la memoire. On a abattu de sang-froid tout ce qui represente les racines, et la seve d'une histoire qui transcendent cette bande de racaille qui asphyxie, comme les ordures de Port-au-Prince, les couloirs du pouvoir. read more Les recents evenements...

  Ite Missa Est : La Comédie est Terminée HAITI SOUS PROTECTORAT Par Jean L Théagène   Les gouvernements ne tiennent leurs promesses que lorsqu’ils y sont forcés ou lorsqu’ils ont quelque chose à y gagner (Napoléon) E n 1804, face à l’omnipotence suffocante de la Religion Catholique, à l’odieuse fragmentation de l’Afrique Noire, au triomphalisme béat de l’Europe esclavagiste, à la totale inhumanité des soi-disant institutions et hommes de l’époque, une Nation était née. Pour saluer cette naissance au forceps, on a même inventé une littérature d’évasion qui, à défaut d’autre, permet...

  Haiti's Great White Hope? By John Maxwell (Jamaican Observer) History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet.  The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who have ranged abroad to betray and sabotage strangers, to inflict unnecessary suffering on people who have never given them cause for complaint. People like Leopold of Belgium, Neville Chamberlain, Hitler, Ariel Sharon...

  A Giant Step for Mankind – Made in Haïti The Bwa Kay Iman uprising against slavery by Jean Saint-Vil   T here was a time, not so long ago, when popes, kings and queens enriched themselves and built vast empires on the profits made with the sweat and blood of kidnapped men, women and children loaded on ships, stacked like sardines and reduced to slavery on plantations of coffee, sugar, cotton, cocoa, all over the Americas[1]. From the 1444 Portuguese attacks against the coast of Africa, followed by the 1452 papal bull of pope Nicholas V[2] which invited Christians to attack and...