Articles by Nathalie Baptiste
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Are Foreign NGOs Rebuilding Haiti or Just Cashing In?
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
20 Jul 2015
Haiti plays host to over 10,000 NGOs, whose foreign workers make up an affluent class of their own. By spending exorbitant sums on incentives for non-locals, NGOs effectively undermine the work they’re supposedly trying to do in Haiti
→ read full articleTerror, Repression, and Diaspora in Haiti: The Baby Doc Legacy
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
27 Oct 2014
Haiti’s late dictator leaves behind a 1-million-strong Diaspora unlikely to ever return home.
→ read full articleAmerican Media Distorts Venezuelan Protests
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
7 Apr 2014
Anti-government protests are being conducted by wealthier, right-wing Venezuelans, who have caused more deaths than security officials.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Just Uganda: Behind the Christian Right’s Onslaught on Africa’s Gays
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
7 Apr 2014
For years now, evangelical activists from the United States have been speaking out against homosexuality and cheering on antigay legislation all over Africa. In Uganda, being gay can now earn you a lifetime in prison. Pat Robertson’s entanglements in Africa go well beyond Zimbabwe and Kenya.
→ read full articleBrazil’s World Cup Evictions: An Insult to Soccer
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
17 Feb 2014
Forced evictions are happening throughout Brazil in advance of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, exacerbating the country’s growing inequality.
→ read full articleHow the UN Can Ignore 8,000 Deaths in Haiti
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
10 Feb 2014
Many more Haitians will die from cholera, a disease brought to their country by the very people who were supposed to be saving them from disaster.
→ read full articleHaiti: Billions in Aid, Pennies in Progress since Earthquake
Nathalie Baptiste – Foreign Policy In Focus,
3 Feb 2014
Four years since its devastating earthquake, progress in Haiti is slow and reconstruction efforts are lacking at best.
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