by Jacob Kushner and Jean Pharés Jérôme PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One Friday last November, US Ambassador to Haiti...
Mar 19, 2012
How Mexico’s pro-industry unions undermine workers’ rights
By John Otis MEXICO CITY – During a 5.6-magnitude earthquake, Eduardo Vargas rose from his cubicle at the...
Mar 12, 2012
Post-quake US food aid hurt Haiti farmers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In the months following Haiti’s devastating January 2010 earthquake, the United States government spent $140...
Feb 13, 2012
Targeting Teachers: The ‘dirty war’ against Colombia’s unions
By John Otis COTORRA, Colombia — It was a savage, mafia-style hit. Alejandro Peñata, a Colombian teacher and...
Feb 09, 2012
Haiti’s politics of blame
PORT-AU-PRINCE — For all the talk about a Haitian people who have grown impatient with the slow pace of...
Jan 13, 2012
Seeking truth in the ‘NGO republic’
Where did all the money go? The question rises up from the dust of the still-crowded tent camps...
Jan 10, 2012
A success story in Haiti: Teach a man to fish
by Donovan Webster CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — VALENTIN ABE probably never saw himself as the savior of 17 different...
Jan 10, 2012
Haitian diaspora reaches back home
by Mildrade Cherfils BOSTON — After returning from her annual trip to Haiti last July, Ketlye Theodore stood...
Jan 10, 2012
Haiti: Two years after the earthquake, where did the money go?
by Donovan Webster PORT-AU-PRINCE — TO SEE WHERE the enormous sums of humanitarian aid directed to Haiti after...
Jan 10, 2012
Amid Haiti’s ruins, the healing power of art
by Donovan Webster PORT-AU-PRINCE — Inside Haiti’s environment of horrendous need, mixed types of pain, threat, and poverty —...
Jan 10, 2012
