Tag: Haiti

Give Aid to Haiti via Haitian Grassroots Popular Organizations

August 19, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky 2010 Earthquake and Aid On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It caused the death of 200,00 people, wounded 300,000 and left 1.5 million homeless. A massive relief and recovery effort was launched, and billions of dollars were collected for that […]

Justice for Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Seeks a Sali Piblik [Public Safety] Government in Haiti

August 18, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Lavalas (Creole for flood or avalanche), later also a political party called Fanmi Lavalas, emerged as a mass movement during the 1980s struggle to free Haiti from the brutal Duvalier dictatorships. In two landslide elections in 1990 and 2000, it carried Jean-Bertrand […]