Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars, interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman & Juan González

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Haiti, Haiti Earthquake

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Report from Haiti, Report from Haiti: Journey to the Epicenter of the Earthquake, Video: "Haiti - The Politics of Rebuilding", Excerpt of "Haiti: Six Months On"

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  • Students Protest Gov’t In Haiti

    In Haiti thousands of students took to the streets Thursday demanding the resignation of President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Police fired tear gas and warning shots. One bystander was shot dead in Port-Au-Prince....

    December 12, 2003 | Headline

  • Aristide Opponents Call For General Strike in Haiti

    In Haiti, opponents to President Jean-Betrand Aristide have launched a two-day general strike that has shut down most businesses in Port-au-Prince. Striking workers are calling for Aristide to resign....

    January 09, 2004 | Headline

  • Pro- and Anti-Aristide Demonstrate in Haiti

    In Haiti, at least 20,000 people marched Wednesday in Port-Au-Prince to show support for President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Meanwhile for the second time in three days police fired tear gas at opponents...

    January 22, 2004 | Headline

  • Aristide Opponents Take 11 Cities in Haiti

    In Haiti opponents of President Aristide have now taken control of at least 11 cities and towns in western Haiti in an armed uprising rising that began Thursday. At least 40 have died in fighting....

    February 10, 2004 | Headline

  • State Dept. Suggests Haiti’s Aristide Must Go

    In Haiti fighting between opponents of President Aristide and the government spread Tuesday into the historic Cap Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city. Opponents of Aristide have called for a...

    February 11, 2004 | Headline

  • France Considers UN Peace Force For Haiti

    French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said today that France has been in contact with other United Nations members about sending an international peacekeeping force to Haiti. De Villepin said...

    February 17, 2004 | Headline

  • U.S. To Send Military Team To Haiti

    The Pentagon announced Thursday it is sending a military team from Southern Command of up to four people to go to Haiti within the next two days. The U.S. is also withdrawing dozens of Peace Corps...

    February 20, 2004 | Headline

  • Armed Gangs Capture Haiti's 2nd Largest City

    Armed gangs captured Haiti’s second-largest city Cap-Haitien on Sunday and are threatening to march on the Haitian capital Port au-Prince within 15 days. A large cloud of black smoke hung over...

    February 23, 2004 | Headline

  • U.S. Sends in 50 Antiterrorism Marines to Haiti

    In Haiti, 50 members of the Marine’s Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team arrived in Port Au Prince Monday to secure the U.S. embassy. Opponents of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are threatening...

    February 24, 2004 | Headline

  • France Calls for Aristide To Resign in Haiti

    French officials have privately told President Jean Betrand Aristide that they want him to resign and for a new coalition government to be formed. One French official told the Miami Herald, '’He...

    February 26, 2004 | Headline

  • Powell Questions Aristide's Future in Haiti

    In news from Haiti, Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday openly questioned whether President Aristide can continue to serve effectively as Haiti’s leader. Powell said "He is the democratically...

    February 27, 2004 | Headline

  • Guy Philippe Declares Himself Chief of Haiti Army

    In Haiti, rebel leader Guy Philippe announced yesterday "The country is in my hands." He claimed he was the chief of Haiti and that he would oversee the reformation of the Haitian military....

    March 03, 2004 | Headline

  • Kerry Condemns Bush on Handling of Haiti

    Meanwhile Senator John Kerry has condemned President Bush’s handling of the Haiti crisis saying he would have sent in international troops to support the country’s democratically elected...

    March 08, 2004 | Headline

  • Haiti Moves To Transition Gov't; Aristide to Sue

    In Haiti, a Council of Sages has formed to put together a transitional government to pick a replacement to Aristide’s prime minister Yvon Neptune. On Monday Boniface Alexandre was officially...

    March 09, 2004 | Headline

  • Pentagon Expands U.S. Role In Haiti

    This news from Haiti. The Pentagon announced Wednesday an expansion of the US mission in Haiti to allow U.S. Marines to start using armed force in an effort to restore order after a coup ousted President...

    March 11, 2004 | Headline

  • Ex-Death Squad Leader Chamblain Surrenders in Haiti

    In Haiti, a former leader of the country’s death squads, Louis-Jodel Chamblain, surrendered to justice officials yesterday. Chamblain was sentenced in absentia to life in prison in 2000 for killing...

    April 23, 2004 | Headline

  • Nearly 2,000 Die in Haiti & D.R. in Floods

    In Haiti and the Dominican Republic massive floods and landslides has led to the death of nearly 2,000 people over the past few days. The death toll skyrocketed Wednesday, when more than 1,000 bodies...

    May 27, 2004 | Headline

  • Aristide Heads to S. Africa, Vows to Return to Haiti

    Ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived in South Africa Monday where he plans to live in temporary exile. On Sunday as he left Jamaica, where he had been staying, he told reporters...

    June 01, 2004 | Headline

  • Aristide's Prime Minister Arrested in Haiti

    In Haiti, ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune has been arrested. The new U.S.-backed government charges Neptune is connected with several killings that...

    June 28, 2004 | Headline

  • Carribbean Nations Split On Recognizing Haiti's New Gov't

    At the annual meeting of Caricom in Grenada, five Caribbean countries have called on the Carribbean community to officially recognize the new U.S.-backed Haitian government which took over after President...

    July 06, 2004 | Headline