New revelations from WikiLeaks show how the US micromanaged Haiti's economy and politics to align it to US interests.
According to the cables, the Obama administration apparently sought to limit the minimum wage for Haitian textile workers.
They also show that the US government backed Haiti's presidential poll - despite reservations over a ban on the country's largest political party. 
Al Jazeera's Imran Garda reports.
WikiLeaks Haiti documents show US influence by english.aljazeera.net, June 9, 2011
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Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi's aggressively 
blocked minimum wage increases for the lowest-paid 
workers in the hemisphere. 

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"Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.

We Recommend WikiLeaks Haiti: The Nation Partners With Haïti Liberté on Release of Secret Haiti Cables (Disaster Capitalism, Sweatshops,World) Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010 earthquake.

But the factory owners refused to pay 62 cents per hour, or $5 per day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian Parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development and the US Embassy when they took that stand.

To resolve the impasse between the factory owners and Parliament, the State Department urged quick intervention by then Haitian President René Préval.

“A more visible and active engagement by Préval may be critical to resolving the issue of the minimum wage and its protest ‘spin-off’—or risk the political environment spiraling out of control,” argued US Ambassador Janet Sanderson in a June 10, 2009, cable back to Washington.

Two months later Préval negotiated a deal with Parliament to create a two-tiered minimum wage increase—one for the textile industry at about $3 per day and one for all other industrial and commercial sectors at about $5 per day.

Still the US Embassy wasn’t pleased. A deputy chief of mission, David E. Lindwall, said the $5 per day minimum “did not take economic reality into account” but was a populist measure aimed at appealing to “the unemployed and underpaid masses.”

Haitian advocates of the minimum wage argued that it was necessary to keep pace with inflation and alleviate the rising cost of living. As it is, Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere and the World Food Program estimates that as many as 3.3 million people in Haiti, a third of the population, are food insecure. In April 2008 Haiti was rocked by the so-called Clorox food riots, named after hunger so painful that it felt like bleach in your stomach.

According to a 2008 Worker Rights Consortium study, a family of one working member and two dependents needed at least 550 Haitian gourdes, or $12.50, per day to meet normal living expenses.

The revelation of US support for low wages in Haiti’s assembly zones was in a trove of 1,918 cables made available to the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté by the transparency group WikiLeaks. As part of a collaboration with Haïti Liberté, The Nationis publishing English-language articles based on those cables.

In an emailed statement, the State Department declined to comment on the disclosures in this article, citing a policy against commenting on documents that purport to contain classified information and stating that it “strongly condemns any illegal disclosure of such information.” However, the State Department spokesperson added in the email: “In Haiti, approximately 80 percent of the population is unemployed and 78 percent earns less than $1 per day”— actually, according to the UN Development Program, 78 percent of Haitians live on less than $2, not $1, a day—and “the US government is working with the government of Haiti and international partners to help create jobs, support economic growth, promote foreign direct investment that meets ILO labor standards in the apparel industry and invest in agriculture and beyond.”

For a twenty-month period between early February 2008 and October 2009, US Embassy officials closely monitored and reported on the minimum wage issue. The cables show that the Embassy fully understood the popularity of the measure.

The cables attest that the new wage even had support from a majority of Haitian private sector representatives “based on reports that wages in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua (competitors in the garment industry) will increase also.”...(click on link or "read more" for the rest of the story)

Wikileaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day by Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, thenation.com, June 1, 2011

Wikileaks Haiti: The Petro Caribe Files by Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives, thenation.com, June 1, 2011
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The security services of President Martelly received yesterday Monday, by air cargo, 6 new armored vehicles for the new administration Martelly to replace vehicles in poor conditions, of the former Government.

Meanwhile, activists of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, complain of measures allegedly taken by government authorities aiming to reduce the number of security guards assigned to protect the former President "The security team of President Aristide has been reduced to almost nothing" said a Lavalas activist "This is worrisome [...] We need to know where we stand, we must do something to protect our leader..."
Haiti-Politic: More security for Martelly, less for Aristide, haitilibre.com, June 8, 2011
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"His music was really a nostalgia for 
those Jean-Claude [Duvalier] years."

"My music was never political," Martelly tells New Times in an exclusive interview. "I have always tried to make sure that people laughed and had fun."

But a close look at his life and tunes proves otherwise. As a musician, he provided the soundtrack for coups d'état. He hosted private parties for right-wing thugs accused of extrajudicial killings. He borrowed his nickname from a notorious police chief later convicted of human rights abuses.

Despite a slick political makeover, Haiti's self-proclaimed "bad boy" hasn't really changed. He plans to re-establish the army that was abolished after the coup and has shown other early signs of a strongman mentality. Most worrisome, however, a video uploaded to YouTube in February shows Martelly calling opponents "faggots" and threatening to kill Jean-Bertrand Aristide — a leftist ex-president who recently returned from exile — by "stick[ing] a dick up his ass."

The stage may have changed, but Sweet Micky is still performing. And Haiti might end up getting played.

"He has two lives," says François Pierre-Louis, a Haitian political scientist at the City University of New York. "He's really a right-wing populist... Once he doesn't get his way, he will force his way and do things that aren't constitutional." So far, he says, Martelly has excluded opposition ministers from crucial meetings and proposed an unqualified candidate for prime minister.
Sweet Micky's Masquerade: Michel Martelly is Haiti's New President. But the Musician has a Dark Side by Michael E. Miller, miaminewtimes.com, June 9, 2011

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Those who were home gathered their belongings, some were beaten
"Aftermath" photos by Gaetantguevara, May 23, 2011
 -Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011


Haitian Mayor's Office Vows to Destroy All Refugee Camps, Launches Violent Campaign 
by Beverly Bell, truthout.org, May 28, 2011
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 May 23, 2011
"Residents watched in horror as men in shirts reading 
“The Mayor of Delmas in Action” were clearing away 
the little that remained of their lives."
Watching Government Officers Destroy Tent Camps,
 a blog entry by Beatrice, beahaiti.wordpress.com, May 30, 2011
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They used Knives and Machetes to take down Shelters of Homeless Earthquake Survivors
"Aftermath" photos by Gaetantguevara, May 23, 2011
 -Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011

As hurricane season looms, government officers destroy tent camps
 (Beatrice Lindstrom, BAI LERN Legal Fellow) — May 31, 2011
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As many as six truckloads of men participated in the 
destruction of IDP camps in Delmas today
 -Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011


Torture Firm 'Risks Incorporated' Tied to Destructive Evictions in Haiti 
by Ansel Herz for NarcoNews.com, May 29, 2011
                                      
Today (May 25, 2011)  the violent and destruction forced evictions in Delmas continued. Mayor Wilson Jeudy with agents from his office and several truckloads of Haitian National Police arrived without warning in Delmas 3 to dismantle the shelters of homeless earthquake victims. They used large knives and machetes and threatened members of our team for photographing and videotaping the activity. 
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"...When asked whether he had followed the legal process for evictions, 
the Mayor responded nonchalantly that he did not need legal authorization."
Watching Government Officers Destroy Tent Camps, 
a blog entry by Beatrice, beahaiti.wordpress.com, May 30, 2011

In a ruling last November, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights directed the Haitian government to stop evicting IDPs unless it provided them safe alternative shelter.

Human rights group sues mayor in Haiti for terrorizing 
earthquake victims during unlawful evictions (BAI)   
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2011

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                             Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas destroying IDP camps
Mayor Jeudy accused IDPs of being criminals and said they could not stay on public parks meant for recreation. According to Jeudy, letting homeless earthquake survivors remain in the meager shelters in Delmas' parks would prevent investment and tourism, so he will remove them all.
   -Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011

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The "palace"
City hall and part-time residence of mayor of Delmas Wilson Jeudy. 

"hand-laid limestone...imported marble..." "How much does this palace cost?" Vigliotti asked Jeudy.
While the price tag is unknown, [Mayor Wilson] Juedy said American cities personally wrote him checks for $150,000...."
..."The palace we just left was very grandiose. When you come down here where the people are, it just looks like there has been no movement," said [Miami Dade] Commissioner Dorrin Rolle...
After seeing Local 10's story online Monday, a rep. from Jeudy's office called to [say] donations are not being used for the construction. Instead, Jeudy's office said, Haitian taxpayer dollars are being used....
...Since the people of Haiti are paying for the construction, according to the mayor's office, Vigliotti asked if the mayor's office would open its gates and allow people who are sleeping in the streets to set up tents on the lawn. The rep. said the office would get back to Local 10.
         Mayor Builds Palace Among Haiti Rubble, July 12, 2010. 
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Mayor Builds Palace Among Haiti Rubble, July 12, 2010. 
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"...the emerald lawn is cut by hand."
Mayor Builds Palace Among Haiti Rubble, July 12, 2010. 
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"Walls are constructed with hand-laid limestone. Floors are lined with imported 
marble. The palace even features an amphitheater."
Mayor Builds Palace Among Haiti Rubble, July 12, 2010. 
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"Aftermath" photos by Gaetantguevara, May 23, 2011
 -Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011
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Destruction at the Kafou Ayopo after Police and Mayor's Office Forcibly Evict IDPs
"Aftermath" photos by Gaetantguevara, May 23, 2011 
-Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011
"While the Mayor believes that many of the camps’ residents have housing but were staying in camps to access free services, the appalling conditions of displacement camps make apparent the fact that if the earthquake victims had some where else to go, they would have left long ago."
Human rights group sues mayor in Haiti for terrorizing 
earthquake victims during unlawful evictions (BAI)   
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2011
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As hurricane season looms, government officers destroy tent camps (Beatrice Lindstrom, BAI LERN Legal Fellow) — May 31, 2011

Haitian Mayor's Office Vows to Destroy All Refugee Camps, Launches Violent Campaign by Beverly Bell, truthout.org, May 28, 2011

Torture Firm 'Risks Incorporated' Tied to Destructive Evictions in Haiti 
by Ansel Herz for NarcoNews.com, May 29, 2011

Others are also speaking out against the evictions.  They include human rights defenders, grassroots groups, and members of the U.S. Congress, who released a statement Thursday deploring the evictions. Black Congress Members outraged over camp destructions by Haitian police, May 23, 2011

In a ruling last November, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights directed the Haitian government to stop evicting IDPs unless it provided them safe alternative shelter.

Watching Government Officers Destroy Tent Camps, a blog entry by Beatrice, beahaiti.wordpress.com, May 30, 2011

"Aftermath" photos by Gaetantguevara, May 23, 2011
Gaetantguevara's photostream, May 25, 2011

Housing Rights Advocacy Project (HRAP), ijdh.org

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REPORTS ON CONDITIONS IN THE CAMPS

Human Rights Assessment in Parc Jean Marie Vincent by Kimberly Culler and Louise Ivers, Partners in Health, December 1

Unstable Foundations: Impact of NGOs on Human Rights for Port-au-Prince's Internally Displaced People by Prof. Mark Schuller at York College (CUNY) Faculte d'Ethnologie (UEH), October 4, 2010.

"We've Been Forgotten": Conditions in Haiti's Displacement Camps Eight Months After the Earthquake (IJDH) (also LAMP for Haiti Foundation and University of San Francisco School of Law, Center for Law and Global Justice), September 15, 2010.

"We Became Garbage to Them"- Inaction and Complicity in IDP Expulsion: A Call to Action to the US Government by international Action Ties, August 12, 2010. 
IJDH's Housing Rights Advocacy Project is making the voice of Haiti's internally displaced persons heard as it brings unlawful forced evictions from the camps to the international spotlight. Video by Frantz Etienne, Patrice Florvilus, Beatrice Lindstrom, and Jeena Shah.

This video was produced for a hearing on forced evictions before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in October 2010. IJDH-BAI and our partners won the hearing and the Commission recommended that the Government of Haiti stop all evictions from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps immediately.
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Ambassador Janet Sanderson in Cite Soleil in 2008.
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René Préval, who passed Haiti’s presidential sash to Joseph Michel Martelly on May 14, was described by U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson as “Haiti’s indispensable man” in a Jun. 1, 2009 Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks last December.

Sanderson judged him “still moderately popular, and likely the only politician capable of imposing his will on Haiti - if so inclined.” At the same time,“dealing with Préval is a challenge, occasionally frustrating and sometimes rewarding,” she continued. “He is wary of change and suspicious of outsiders, even those who seek his success.”

Préval’s suspicions about “outsiders” seeking his “success” turned out to be justified. In two rounds of presidential and legislative elections held in November and March, Washington aggressively intervened, pushing out of the presidential run-off Jude Célestin, the candidate of Préval’s party Inite (Unity), to replace him with Martelly, a neo-Duvalierist konpa singer who vocally supported the 1991 and 2004 coups d’état against former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Now the U.S. has even challenged the legislative races which would have given Inite virtual control of the Parliament, and hence approval of the President-designated Prime Minister, Haiti’s most powerful executive post. With U.S. support, challenges were brought against Inite victories in 17 Deputy and two Senate races. The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) ruled in favor of only 15 challenges, leaving four seats with the original Inite winners. The U.S. is not even letting this mild, partial impertinence go, yanking the U.S. travel visas of six of the CEP’s eight members.

"...How did Haiti’s “indispensable man” [Haitian President Rene Preval] become so dispensable? Why has Washington so brazenly intervened in Haiti’s elections to limit the power of Préval’s party and oust Inite’s presidential candidate from the run-off?

Clues to the answer lie in secret U.S. Embassy cables which the transparency- advocacy group WikiLeaks has provided to Haïti Liberté. The cables reveal that the U.S. was primarily irked by Préval’s dealings with Cuba and Venezuela, where the former Haitian president was unable “to resist displaying some show of independence or contrariness in dealing with [Venezuelan president Hugo] Chavez,” as Sanderson griped in a 2007 cable.

U.S. dismay began when Préval signed – the very day of his inauguration – a deal to join Venezuela’s PetroCaribe alliance, under which Haiti would buy oil paying only 60% to Venezuela up front with the remainder payable over 25 years at 1% interest. The leaked U.S. Embassy cables provide a fascinating look at how Washington sought to discourage, scuttle and sabotage the PetroCaribe deal despite its unquestionable benefits, under which the Haitian government “ would save USD 100 million per year from the delayed payments,” as the Embassy itself recognized in a 2006 cable.  

A review of PetroCaribe’s genesis and the Embassy’s response to it provides a window into understanding why the U.S. has been so forceful in backing the U.S.-centric Martelly team over Préval’s two-timing sector..."
New WikiLeaked Cables Reveal: How Washington and Big Oil Fought PetroCaribe in Haiti by Haiti-liberte.com, June 1-7, 2011


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On June 1, 2011, IJDH Staff Attorney, Nicole Phillips and the BAI’s Lawyers Earthquake 
Response Network Fellow, Bea Lindstrom, discuss the forced evictions of earthquake 
victims from temporary camps on Pacifica Radio’s Sojourner Truth. Margaret Prescod 
reports. 
Begins at  approx. 20:00.
Sojournertruthradio with Margaret Prescod


On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) will file a complaint with Haiti’s National Prosecutor against Delmas Mayor Wilson Jeudy for his recent spree of illegal evictions in displace­ment camps created after the January 12, 2010 earthquake.  Grassroots human rights organizations and tent camp residents also plan to stage a protest at 10 am at the Ministry of Justice, while the complaint is being filed, to draw attention to their grievances.  The protest will end before the nation’s Parliament.

At least three camps housing approximately 1,000 displaced persons in the Port-au-Prince suburb were destroyed last week by Mayor Jeudy, his armed security personnel and units from the Haitian National Police, as a part of the Mayor’s declared mission to remove camps from public lands. The police came with little to no warning and raided the camps under the pretext of searching for criminals, slashing tents with machetes and assaulting residents trying to protest the raids.

BAI’s complaint on behalf of individual victims of the evictions charges Mayor Jeudy with vio la tions of the rights to life and hous ing protected by Haiti’s Constitution and crimes against the person and property, articu­lated in the Haitian Penal Code.  “As a public official, Mayor Jeudy is not above the law,” said BAI Managing Attorney Mario Joseph. “Haitian law only permits him to enter private domiciles, regardless of where they are located, with a judicial mandate or a Municipal Decree published in advance, neither of which the Mayor had to justify his acts.”
Human rights group sues mayor in Haiti for terrorizing 
earthquake victims during unlawful evictions (BAI)
For Immediate Release: May 31, 2011

Contact:
Mario Joseph, Av., Managing Attorney, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, mario@ijdh.org, +509‑3701-9879/ +509‑3554-4284  (in Port-au-Prince) (French) 
Jeena Shah, Esq., Legal Fellow, Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, jeena@ijdh.org, +509‑3610-2781 (in Port-au-Prince) (English)
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Reading Haiti by thepublicarchive.com, May 23, 2011
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Jean Claude Duvalier 
"Baby Doc"

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Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier returns to Haiti
guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 January 2011 


"It was certainly surprising to see former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier return to the country on January 16. To say he has blood on his hands is an understatement--the Duvalier regimes were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and widespread abuse, and stole millions of dollars from the country.......One would hope reporters could find a way to make a meaningful distinction between a ruthless, bloody dictator and a popular elected president. It is obscene to refer to them both as "leaders" or, as the USA Today headline put it,  "despots.""
Conflating Ousted Presidents and Former Dictators in Haiti, fair.org, February 2, 2011
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"...The “impartiality” with which the American media treated the return of Jean-Claude Duvalier to Haiti last January was cynical, if not immoral." 
-Nia Imara, haitisolidarity.net, June 2011
...Tens of thousands of people were murdered during the twenty-nine year long, US-funded dictatorship of Francois Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude [see links below].  The severe economic divide in Haiti today and the country’s dependence on foreign resources directly extend from the exploitation and corruption that that regime tried to entrench in society.

In 1986, Duvalier the younger was forced out of Haiti due to the mounting pressure of the people’s resistance.  The driving force of this movement came to be known as Lavalas.
-Nia Imara, haitisolidarity.net, June 2011
 "This Kreyol term means “flood” or “torrent,” the idea being that the people were united in a cleansing flood that would wash away all the corruption and injustice of Duvalierism. "
Aristide Stands, The People Stand by Nia Imara, haitisolidarity.net, June 2011 
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"The "international community" has spared no efforts in helping the neo-Duvalierists bring about the Restoration."
-José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
"All the political efforts by both the Haitian oligarchy and its bosses "up north" should be read in one direction: to restore the infamous Duvalierism as the natural social and political model for Haiti and, with it, get rid of that bothersome popular movement, get rid of all its symbolic reference points, destroy the social network that was woven by the people from below with solidarity and kill off any kind of popular threat to their privileges.

With the arrival of Baby Doc back in Haiti, the cycle opened by the extraordinarily tragic popular revolts of 1986 can be said to have come to completion. The restoration strategy of Duvalierism has succeeded, at least for now. Mouthing pious words about relief and wiping the crocodile tears about the misery they have created from their eyes, the "international community" has spared no efforts in helping the neo-Duvalierists bring about the Restoration."
Baby Doc Returns to Haiti: The Duvalier Restoration by anarkismo.net, January 17, 2011
"As we pointed out before, comparing Aristide's human-rights 
record to Duvalier's bloody reign is obscene."
-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, March 18, 2011.
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"Let Them Live on $3 a Day." 

Wikileaks: The Haiti PetroCaribe Files.

The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Haïti Liberté (kimives (Haiti Liberte)), has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Called "The PetroCaribe Files," the series begins with an exposé of how the United States—with pressure from Exxon and Chevron—tried to interfere with an oil agreement between Haiti and Venezuela that would save Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, $100 million per year. "It is really amazing to see an ambassador pushing around a president, and all his officials telling them what to do, trying to tell them what Haiti’s interests are. It is the epitome of arrogance," says the report’s co-author, Kim Ives. We are also joined by veteran Haiti correspondent, Dan Coughlin.
Wikileaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of US Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies' Behest by Democracy Now, June 3, 2011


Drawing from a trove of 1,918 Haiti-related diplomatic cables obtained by the transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks, The Nation is collaborating with the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté on a series of groundbreaking articles about US and UN policy toward the Caribbean nation.
Haïti Liberté, published largely in French and Creole, is working with WikiLeaks to release and analyze the Haiti-related cables, which will be featured in a series of English-language Nationpieces, written by a variety of freelance journalists with extensive experience in Haiti and posted each Wednesday for several weeks.
The cables from US Embassies around the world cover an almost seven-year period, from April 17, 2003—ten months before the February 29, 2004, coup d’état that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide—to February 28, 2010, just after the January 12 earthquake that devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding cities. They range from “Secret” and “Confidential” classifications to “Unclassified.” Cables of the latter classification are not public, and many are marked “For Official Use Only” or “Sensitive.”
The cables that form the basis of the articles in this series are being published in their entirety on the WikiLeaks site. However, in some cases, names will be redacted for safety reasons.
While not revealing any intelligence or military operations, and not comprising a complete set of all Port-au-Prince Embassy communiqués, the cables offer a penetrating look into US strategies and maneuvering in Haiti during the brutal coup years (2004–2006) and the period after President René Préval’s election (2006–2010). We see Washington’s obsession with keeping Aristide out of Haiti and the hemisphere; the microscope it trained on rebellious neighborhoods like Bel Air and Cité Soleil; and its tight supervision of Haiti’s police and of the United Nations’ 9,000-man military occupation known as the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Embassy officials offer candid assessments of other ambassadors and of Haitian politicians, UN officials, and other public figures. Sometimes their analysis is illuminating; more often, their assessments range from arrogant, pedantic or self-serving to false, tendentious or just plain ridiculous.
What emerges is an extraordinary portrait of Washington’s aggressive management of Latin America’s first sovereign nation—and its bare-knuckled tactics on behalf of US corporate interests there. But the cables also show how Washington’s designs are met with fierce resistance from the Haitian people. And they reveal how Haiti is a key arena for North-South struggle and East-West intrigue. Washington squares off against Caracas and Havana, particularly over oil, while Beijing and Taipei engage in fierce diplomatic arm-wrestling that threatens to derail the UN military mission in Haiti.
This release is part of the latest phase of WikiLeaks activity. Originally, WikiLeaks distributed the 251,287 leaked US Embassy cables and the Afghan war logs it obtained last year by providing them to large Western newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian and the German magazine Der Spiegel. Since late December, WikiLeaks has selected media outlets in other countries—well over fifty now—and provided them with the US Embassy cables relevant to their country or region. Where they have been published, these disclosures have almost invariably generated major headlines, but typically they have received scant attention in the United States.
By partnering with Haïti Liberté, and placing the cables in context for a US audience, The Nation hopes to heighten the impact of the Haiti releases in the United States and internationally—and to advance the WikiLeaks mission of transparency in government that we regard as critical to democracy. 
Wikileaks Haiti: The Nation Partners With Haiti Liberte on Release of Secret Haiti Cables by the editors, thenation.com, June 1, 2011
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