This year marks the 100 years since the beginning of the 19-year occupation of Haiti, and the Haitian struggle against U.S. rule. Sourced through Scoop.it from: socialistworker.org The occupation confronted powerful resistance from the peasantry, who organized into rebel armies known as cacos. According to mythology they were named after a fiery red bird, …
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Greg Dunkel, Haitian History: What U.S. textbooks don’t tell Source: www.hartford-hwp.com By Greg Dunkel, Haiti Progres, This Week in Haiti, Vol.21 no.27, 17–23 September 2003 Publisher’s note: This document combines the two parts of the original publication. The second part appeared in Haiti Progres, Vol.21 no.26, 24 September 2003. Looking at how Haiti’s history is …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. State Department has begun a community policing program in Haiti that aims to strengthen ties between officers and the neighbourhoods they patrol in a country where police are largely mistrusted. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The U.S. State Department has begun a community policing program in Haiti that aims to strengthen ties …
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Source: www2.webster.edu SIX PHOTOS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES August 13, 1915 WHEN U.S. MARINES WERE LANDED IN HAYTI Rear Admiral Caperton, who landed the first party of 50 Marines from the Gunboat Eagle. Marines marching from League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, for the Connecticut, which is shown below sailing iwth 500 of them …
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Source: www2.webster.edu In Haiti a worse situation faced us. That Republic was in chronic trouble, and it as it is close to Cuba the bad influence was felt across the water. article by Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1928. “Our Foreign Policy: A Democratic View.” In general this article is defending the U.S. from an attack …
