Benz de Marshall Pierre | Staff Writer If you follow international events at all, news coming out of Haiti has been difficult to dodge. The island nation is once again staring intently at the abyss as it’s experiencing another episode of chronic instability. Several explanations are pouring forth hoping to elucidate the origins of the […]
Danette Heredia | Contributing Writer After defeating the French for their freedom, Haiti became a forgotten history yet managed to maintain its cultural richness. A Haitian author and historian reflects upon the last 100 years of Haiti’s struggle through literature empowerment. Ghislain Gouraige Jr., the author of Notre Histoire, brought together Haitians and others interested […]
Ram Praneeth | Contributing Writer Haiti, a country marred by instability and poverty, struggles with many internal and external conflicts. Education is no different in the nation’s long list of domestic battlegrounds. On Dec. 1, a virtual panel discussion from the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, titled “Reflections on Haiti: Layering the Conversation […]
Diego Diaz | Asst. News director Chants, jeers, and comparisons to Communist Cuba engulfed FIU’s Wertheim Performing Art Center on Dec. 9 as the crowd made their opposition known to Susan Eckstein’s work “Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America.” The Boston University professor of sociology would subsequently publish a guest column in […]
Diego Diaz / Asst. News Director During his childhood in Haiti, Westernior Valmera witnessed kids his age struggling to afford backpacks and other school supplies. Students often had to work with their parents, and abandoned their education. “I came from a very poor environment, life conditions were never towards our advantage or preference,” said the […]
Robert Crohan/Staff Writer Countless black families, most with only some of the bare necessities, were attempting to travel overland to a supposedly safe and promising part of the United States. But the state’s governor wanted no part in it and the federal government heard crickets. Thousands were kept under a bridge. Law enforcement took to […]
Diego Diaz / Asst. News Director Miami demonstrators took to the streets last week, calling on President Joe Biden to halt the mass deportation and harsh treatment of Haitian migrants on the U.S. southern border. More than 100 protestors marched in front of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Miami on Wednesday, Sept. […]
Michael McEwen / Staff Writer Southern Haiti was the epicenter of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Aug. 14 which left more than 2,000 dead and 30,000 without shelter, further complicating the Caribbean nation’s ongoing political crisis. Haiti’s second major earthquake in 11 years, this disaster occurred during a period of acute instability for the national […]
Diego Diaz / Asst. News Director Haiti’s political crisis intensifies as Prime Minister Ariel Henry continues to impede the investigation of former President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination. Most recently, he fired the Haitian Justice Minister Rockfeller Vincent on Wednesday, Sept. 16, who accused Henry of murder. The dismissal occurred a day after Henry’s firing of chief […]
Judith George/Staff Writer It was Haitian Flag Day during my senior year of high school. I wasn’t decked out in Haitian Flag day gear, unlike my fellow Hatian students who wore bandannas, chains, wristbands, shirts and even giant capes. It just wasn’t my style. I was more subtle, preferring to simply wear the colors that […]
By: Valentina Palm / Asst. News Director Protesters, barricades and burning tires have covered the streets in Haiti since August – now, the country is almost on a national strike. Protesters paralyze the country demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse because of governmental corruption, economic reforms, and currency devaluation. “What Haitians are living now […]
In 2018 America, Thanksgiving has traveled a long way from it’s original meaning and symbols. The turkey, representative of the colonists truce with the Native Americans in the first Thanksgiving is obsolete in many parts of the country. In our own city, no self-respecting Cuban would choose turkey over “lechon,” a form of pork, usually […]
