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Livesay [Haiti] Weblog: …On Compassion
Livesay Weblog: ...On Compassion: This Valentine's Eve I am purposefully focusing on compassion rather than the February 14 hearts and cupids type of romantic love. ...
What the New DNI Threat Assessment Says about Haiti
by Dan Beeton (for CEPR)
The Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released its “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community” for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today. The assessment’s...
New Charges in Dominique Case are meant to Draw Attention Away from Martelly’s Narco...
HaitiAnalysis
Like other cases of political violence in Haiti, it is vital that the killers of Haitian journalist Jean Dominique (murdered in 2000) be brought to justice. Over the years though it is clear that...
Flashpoints Radio Interviews on the new Charges in the Jean Dominique Case
Listen at 36 minutes & 40 seconds to an interview with Aristide's attorney Ira Kurzban on the new charges in the Jean Dominique case: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/99376
Also listen to a discussion with documentarian Kevin Pina and...
Sentinel: Police find car of missing Martelly Narco-Businessman Associate Daniel Evinx
GONAIVES, Haiti (sentinel.ht) - The whereabouts of businessman Daniel Evinx has been unknown since January 5. The vehicle of the close friend of President Michel Martelly, who was arrested in late 2013 for being...
The Jean Dominique Case: Surrounded by Speculation
By Jacques
Pierre Kolo
The double
murder on Apr. 3, 2000 of journalist Jean Dominique and his radio station’s
guardian Jean-Claude Louissaint resurfaced in the news this week after Joseph
C. Guyler Delva, an advisor to the National Palace,...
Wikileaks Reveals Obama Administration’s Role in Stifling Haitian Minimum Wage
American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss prefer to pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes.
by Rod Bastanmehr for Alternet
Strike another one for Wikileaks. The ever-controversial leaker of the world’s best-kept secrets has...
Haiti: Lack of political will allows ex-dictator Duvalier to escape justice
Amnesty International
A lack of political will and unacceptable court delays are allowing Haiti’s former “president-for-life,” Jean-Claude Duvalier, to escape justice for human rights violations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities re-opened...
Outsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own
Jake Jonston
Boston Review, January 16, 2014
See article on original website
Across the country from Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, miles of decrepit pot-holed streets give way to a smooth roadway leading up to the gates of the...