Author: Jean Saint-Vil
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Is Coicou a Good Family Name?
This is what we wrote back in 2005 when there were already many signs that rich people in Haiti were involved in major crimes, including kidnappings…. Citation: Millionaire Stanley Handal Arrested on Kidnapping Charges? http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive-new/msg26407.htmlTo: “Bob Corbett’s Haiti list” <haiti@lists.webster.edu> Subject: 26081: Saint-Vil (comment) Millionaire Stanley Handal Arrested on Kidnapping Charges? (fwd) From: Bob Corbett…
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AYITI-ODAWA
“As Grand Chief of the Algonquin family, I took the decision to welcome the Haitian family who lives on Algonquin territory. A very special ceremony will take place and from that moment all Haitians will be, as we are, at home.” Leo Shetush – Grand Chief of the Algonquin family Part 1 – At the…
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A Real Brother Named John Brown
A sincere revolutionary leader who was willing to shed away white privilege and commit race and class suicide for the benefit of humanity… Back in the 1800s, while so-called “white liberals” in the Americas and Europe were paying lip service to the cause of human brotherhood and universal freedom, with “la société des amis des…
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Haiti: Prominent businessman arrested for role in kidnapping
Someone sent me Amy Wilentz’s recent article which discusses the arrest of alleged kidnapping gang leader Clifford Brandt in Haiti. In the text, there is this paragraph, especially its last sentence, that caught my attention: “There were many theories about who was behind the enlevman, as kidnapping is called in Creole; kidnapping of this kind…