Haiti’s history of political fragility makes its recovery from disaster even harder – podcast: From earthquakes to hurricanes, disease and drug violence, the Caribbean island of Haiti has faced a decade of cascading crises. In this week’s episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast we talk to experts about what Haiti’s history tells us about its …
Haiti’s revolutionary and intellectual history has lessons for the future: The recent assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s de-facto president who had been ruling by decree since 2018, was a shocking and historical moment. It has been more than a century since the last sitting Haitian president was murdered in 1915. As every day passes, the …
Haiti’s cholera victims still can’t get what they need from the UN: The United Nations is once again denying proper justice to victims of cholera in Haiti. Perhaps the UN hopes it can make good by apologising, which it did at the end of 2016, and accepting that it was at least partly involved in …