Author: Kim Ives

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Haiti may end up foiling U.S. plans for Kenya

July 17, 2024 Kim Ives
Just over three weeks after he was sworn in on Jun. 3, Haiti’s de facto Prime Minister Garry Conille – without even the knowledge, much less the approval, of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) that appointed him – boarded […]
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Haiti: Revolution’s human costs and unintended consequences

April 12, 2024 Kim Ives
“Anyone waiting for a ‘pure’ social revolution will never live long enough to see it. He is only a revolutionary in words, who understands nothing of what a real revolution is.” – Lenin in “Review […]
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Is former de facto Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry now a de facto prisoner?

March 22, 2024 Kim Ives
In U.S. custody at the Army’s Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico Ariel Henry, 74, once the king on Haiti’s chessboard, has now become a pawn of the U.S. in its increasingly desperate bid to send […]
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Haiti still smoldering: Carnaval fizzles after uprising flops, as skirmishes continue

February 14, 2024 Kim Ives
Despite three days of nationwide demonstrations, barricades, and street fighting, Haiti’s de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry still clings to power after the Feb. 7 deadline on which opposition leaders, would-be revolutionaries, and Haiti’s masses […]
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Maude Leblanc, Haïti Progrès’ director, has died

February 1, 2024 Kim Ives
Marie Maude Leblanc, the longest-serving member of the socialist weekly Haïti Progrès, died of lung and brain cancer on Jan. 25, 2024, at the age of 69. Born Aug. 31, 1954, in Port-au-Prince, she spent […]
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Communist Party of Kenya condemns Haiti occupation as Nairobi signs five-year ‘security’ deal with Washington

September 28, 2023 Kim Ives
On Sep. 25, 2023, in Nairobi, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed a five-year deal with Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale in which Washington will give money, weapons, and training to the East African country […]
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Human Rights Watch blesses foreign military intervention into Haiti

August 19, 2023 Kim Ives
Just as missionaries preceded and prepared the ground for the sword-wielding conquistadors during Europe’s bloody conquest of the Americas, today, “human rights” groups are the imperial forerunners, attempting to politically and ideologically justify the coups, […]
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Ben Dupuy, the revolutionary whose vision and organizations radicalized and formed a generation in Haiti

May 6, 2023 Kim Ives
The second of two parts. (Part 1) Haiti’s Sep. 30, 1991 coup d’état was a challenge that tested and strengthened the organizations in Ben Dupuy’s revolutionary network. Ambassador-at-Large Dupuy was returning from an outreach trip […]
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Ben Dupuy, quintessential Haitian revolutionary leader, dead at 91

April 28, 2023 Kim Ives
Benjamin Dupuy, arguably Haiti’s greatest communist leader and ideologue from the 1970s to the 2010s, passed away in a Miami Beach nursing home on Apr. 23 at the age of 91. He had been extremely […]
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U.S. tries to bend UN Charter to bless illegal, unwanted invasion

October 28, 2022 Kim Ives
The gloves came off at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Mon., Oct. 17, 202,2 in one of the best bare-knuckle diplomatic throw-downs since the dawn of the new multipolar world on Feb. 24, 2022. […]