LASC public talk: "5 Years Under Military Occupation: What Has the Future in Store for Haiti?"

LASC Latin America Solidarity Centre presents:

 

TNT Thursday Night Talk

 

Exceptionally on Wednesday

4^th March, 7:00 pm

 

Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1

 

 

5 Years Under Military Occupation: What Has the Future in Store for Haiti?

 

·       On February 29^th, 2008, US, French, Canadian and Chilean troops invade Haiti, kidnap and expel President Aristide to the Central African Republic and put an unpopular member of the opposition into government.

·       On July, the UN sent an armed contingent, the MINUSTAH, to take effective control of the country.

·       On February 2006 the current president Rene Preval was elected as the candidate of “national sovereignty”… yet, the occupation has not been questioned in any sensitive form.

·       On April 2008 there was widespread rioting for the high cost of food that quickly turned into anti-occupation protests.

·       5 years later, the country remains under UN military occupation while social conditions keep deteriorating.

·       5 years later... Is there any sign of hope for Haiti or we would expect it to be forever more a UN protectorate?

 

 

Talk delivered by José Antonio Gutiérrez, Research and Development Officer, LASC