Haiti’s wealthy prosper while the poor decline
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/1_29_8/1_29_8.html
HIP - Port au Prince, Haiti — Cite Soleil, a seaside shantytown of more than 300.000 people residing in homes made of cinder blocks with tin roofs, has been described as poorer than India’s infamous slums of Calcutta. On any given [...]
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
“THE ANTITHESIS OF ETHICS”
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2008/ing/f290108i.html
On the day when hundreds of intellectuals coming from every continent are
meeting in Havana to take part in an International Conference for World
Equilibrium on the date of José Marti’s birth, on that same day, by some
strange quirk, the President of the United States spoke. In his last [...]
Video evidence of UN massacre in Haiti
The release of the footage adds to the already controversial role of the UN in Haiti at a moment when they are trying to portray conditions as normalizing following the election of Rene Preval as president in 2006.
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A Haitian web site has released footage that claims to [...]
From: www.haitiaction.net
Haiti: Vanessa Redgrave joins appeal for kidnapped human rights activist
GWS - London, UK — Acclaimed actress Vanessa Redgrave joins a growing list of prominent people worldwide who have expressed concerned with the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the missing human rights activist kidnapped in Haiti on 12 August 2007 after meeting with a [...]
After reading a few commentaries that chastise (gently and not so gently) President Chavez for requesting other governments to quit referring to the FARC as a terrorist organization and to support instead a “belligerent status” for it, opening the door for real political movement on this issue in Colombia, I am sharing two important [...]
The US shoots off its mouth all over the world lodging outrageous accusations against world leaders as the prelude for regime change. This time it was John Walters, US drug czar, who suggested that Venezuela was not doing its part on drug interdiction. The article below shows that Venezuela is doing plenty in [...]
The Cuban ambassador to Nigeria called for the restructure of the UN in order to break the vise grip that the Security Council and especially the permanent members of the Council have over United Nations operations. Of course, the US is the main “gripper” here. Cuba is the perfect country to raise this [...]
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4905
Excerpt from article:
“Another violent military operation occurred in July 2005, when an estimated 22,000 bullet holes were found after an operation by MINUSTAH in Cite Soleil. Reports by HIP cited accounts by residents that the wounded and dead were found inside their own homes. These accounts charge that soldiers shot at people indiscriminately, which had [...]
Below is a recent Los Angeles Times article, “U. S. Drug Czar Points Finger at Chavez,” the latest attempt by the US to bring regime change to Venezuela. Following the Times story is an excellent article by Venezuelanalysis.com that refutes claims in the Times article and puts this issue in context.
U.S. drug czar [...]
If you are in the mood to submerge yourself in someone else’s hissy fit, check out this week’s Washington Post editorial on Hugo Chavez, Ally to Kidnappers: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez endorses Colombian groups known for abductions, drug trafficking and mass murder. The subtitle gives you the basic thrust and makes it easy to [...]
