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Expulsion of migrants in Texas highlights decades of failed US foreign policy toward Haiti
Oct 06, 2021 18:14The crisis in Haiti—following problematic elections, natural disasters, and a presidential assassination in July—is really, at its roots, a failure of U.S. foreign policy.
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Videos show “unfathomable cruelty” of US Border Patrol against Haitians at border
Sep 24, 2021 09:48Horrifying videos have emerged of US Border Patrol agents on horseback cracking their whips at migrants and chasing, grabbing and nearly trampling Haitians seeking asylum at the border, sparking outrage and scrutiny from immigration advocates and progressives.
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Images of US Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian migrants prompt outrage
Sep 23, 2021 20:02The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was investigating the treatment of Haitian migrants by Customs and Border Patrol agents after video and images surfaced of the agents on horseback chasing down migrants at the southern border.
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Haitians reject calls for US military intervention
Aug 04, 2021 16:51Two weeks after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the specter of U.S. military intervention looms large over the island nation. While the Biden administration has rebuffed a request for intervention made by Claude Joseph – a longtime NED asset whom Washington briefly backed as prime minister in the immediate aftermath of the killing – it has not completely ruled out the possibility.
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At least seven Colombians in Haiti assassination received US training
Jul 23, 2021 19:28Eighteen former Colombian soldiers are currently being held in Haiti in connection with Jovenel Moïse’s assassination, including some who previously served in elite Colombian special operations units. New details on their involvement in the assassination continue to break by the day.
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Suspected assassins of Haitian president trained by US, linked to pro-coup oligarchy
Jul 15, 2021 20:27As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades grooming.
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Haiti assassination raises red flags among observers fluent in history of US intervention
Jul 14, 2021 14:29In the wake of assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the unpopular, corrupt, and increasingly authoritarian U.S.-backed Haitian president, observers fluent in the history of foreign interference in the hemisphere's first truly free republic sounded the alarm over the same sort of calls for intervention in the name of "stability" that preceded so many previous American invasions of Haiti.
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Haiti’s massive protests are a repudiation of US intervention
Mar 10, 2021 17:56Haiti’s corrupt, US-backed president is facing massive demonstrations after refusing to step down. US intervention has stifled Haitian democracy and impoverished its people — and the protests are an effort to fight back.
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“Stop interfering in our lives”: Haitians protesters condemn US support for dictator
Feb 19, 2021 19:47Protests in Haiti have led to hundreds of deaths yet have drawn little attention in the West, thanks in large part to its strongman leaders’ continued loyalty to the United States. The U.S. has been interfering in Haitian politics throughout the nation’s 200-year existence.