WikiLeaks Haiti

• Leaked documents provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the devastating 2010 earthquake.
• WikiLeaks Cables Show how US Micromanages Haiti's Economy & Politics
• WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election

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Leaked documents obtained by WikiLeaks provide an extraordinary glimpse of US maneuvering in Haiti from before the 2004 coup through the country's devastating 2010 earthquake. Drawing from a trove of 1,918 Haiti-related diplomatic cables, The Nation is collaborating with the Haitian weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté on a series of articles about US and UN policy toward the Caribbean nation.

The revelations published so far include evidence that the US endorsed Haiti's recent election despite strong evidence that the results had been falsified; that the US Embassy aided Levi’s and Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage, and that the US tried—and failed—to scuttle a Venezuelan oil deal even though it would bring huge benefits to Haiti's impoverished people.

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WikiLeaks Cables Show how US Micromanages Haiti's Economy & Politics, Nation
Nearly two thousand US State Embassy cables concerning Haiti published by WikiLeaks show how the US has worked to micromanage Haiti's economy and its political and electoral process. Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy & Research says the cables show that the US government has gone to great lengths to influence the outcome of Haiti's elections. AJE correspondent Imram Garda concludes Haiti's president Michel Martelly must now decide whether to serve the interests of his people or the interests of "powerful neighbors."

WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election, Nation
The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and unjustly excluding the country’s largest party, according to a secret US Embassy cable.