By James Ferguson ● Issue 49 (May/June 2001)
Caribbean genocide
It was the Sunday before Christmas in the year 1511, almost 20 years after Christopher Columbus had first set foot on the Caribbean island...
Culture, Literature, Arts, History, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 69 (September/October 2004)
Deadly Frontier: Edwidge Danticat’s “The Farming of Bones”
As I write this, they’re still pulling bodies out of what used to be villages along the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic....
Culture, History, Dominican Republic, Haiti
By James Ferguson ● Issue 117 (September/October 2012)
Massacre River of blood
The placid Massacre River (or Río Massacre) seems to belie its ominous name. Running in wide shallow bends and occasional faster-flowing...