Author: Marjorie Calixte Hallworth

After 13 years, the Security Council voted last week to end the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Haiti. One would have thought that it was a peacekeeping mission; but it was not. It was a horrendous mission that mutilated countless Haitian children. It has been reported that the Peacekeepers have sexually exploited and abused Haitian boys and girls as young as 12 years old by luring them with candies and cookies. In the wake of the coup D’état of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, Military troops and police from 56 countriesaround the world positioned in Haiti with a yearly budget…

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I took advantage of early voting and cast my vote on October 19th. I felt very proud and it was a privilege to fulfill that right. Although more than one thousand people were killed in Haiti during Hurricane Matthew, neither one of the presidential candidates even mentioned the tragedy during their second debate. Had a natural or any other kind of disaster happened anywhere in else in the world, they both would have asked America to take a moment of silence for that particular area. They both acted as if Haiti does not exist. I was sickened by their reckless…

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