Category: Haiti

By Bill Quigley     Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the US Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at…

By Debra Sweet   World Can’t Wait leader Elaine Brower joins delegation to Haiti  Millions of people have watched in horror as the people in Haiti have struggled to survive and aid…

By Bill Quigley  You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the…

An article in the New York Times on January 30 reported that the U.S. government “Has suspended its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay…

By Bill Quigley  Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the…

By Margaret Kimberley   “The time has come for a new paradigm: No donation without agitation.” The United States has succeeded in plunging mainstream disaster “relief” into disrepute. “No donations to groups…

From the Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait   A Haitian lawyer says; "Haiti needs 12,000 doctors, Obama sent 12,000 troops to help us to death."  American transport planes fly over Haiti…

 by Li Onesto  This article originally appeared on the Revolution website.   Think about it: A whole city that once had a population of two million people. Now there is mile after…

 By Cynthia McKinney     President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most:  food; first responders and their…

 This article originally appeared on the site for Revolution newspaper.    In the wake of the earthquake, the U.S. is posing as the greatest friend of Haiti. But the whole history of…