Entries Tagged as 'USAID'

March 27, 2008

HAITI: The DEA Hunts for Guy Philippe Again! US, Is This Any Way to Treat the Guy Who Did Your Dirty Work?

Guy Philippe was one of two primary leaders of a paramilitary group that the US housed, trained and armed in the Dominican Republic to make cross-border attacks into Haiti beginning in 2002 in order to kill their countrymen aligned with the administration of the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last year, he started shooting his [...]

March 26, 2008

VENEZUELA: Wash Post’s Diehl Gets a Long-Deserved Dressing Down from Chavez’ Communications Minister

Below is a letter from Venezuela’s Communications Minister, Andres Izarra, to Jackson Diehl, an editor at the Washington Post. Diehl has been responsible for some of the most vicious disinformation about President Chavez produced by any newspaper in the US. Hats off to Minister Izarra!
See Related article: “Washington Post’s Obsession with [...]

March 23, 2008

HAITI: The Benefits of a Weak State

This is an excellent and comprehensive summary of the “weak state” prescription that the international community has been administering to Haiti for years. Now, Haiti is more sick than ever. Darren Ell is right — the only way this will stop is for the citizens of US, France, and Canada to learn [...]

March 20, 2008

VENEZUELA: Chronology of the Fourth Generation War Against Venezuela by Eva Golinger

Chronology of the 4th Generation War Against Venezuela
March 20th 2008, by Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution
The US Government is waging war on Venezuela - not your typical, traditional war, but a modern, asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution. Below is a presentation I created regarding the [...]

March 12, 2008

HAITI: President Aristide Sends Message on the Occasion of Fourth Anniversary of Coup

 
P. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Pretoria, South Africa

Dear Friends,

May the spirit of International Day in [...]

March 10, 2008

HAITI: Lavalas Movement in Haiti Will Not Quit

Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit
HIP- The Lavalas movement of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti simply will not quit. Despite pronouncements by the United Nations that the movement was dead nearly six months ago, over ten thousand supporters demonstrated in Port au Prince this last February 29, 2008. The date was auspicious in [...]

February 11, 2008

HAITI: “Mud Cookie Economics in Haiti” by Kevin Pina

http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/2_10_8/2_10_8.html
By Kevin Pina
Poor Haiti, the nation they would have us believe is close to a failed state, needs our help once again.
A recent AP article shook charitable institutions to their core by revealing that Haitians are eating cookies made of mud to fill their bellies. After more than an estimated 2 billion dollars of international [...]

February 5, 2008

COLOMBIA Anti-FARC March: World’s Oddest Peace Rally- Hostage Relatives Denounce it and Uribe’s Bellicose Rhetoric

While the anti-FARC march snaked across the globe, many watching this spectacle were coming to the same conclusion: What effect did this have on current hostage negotiations? And, for a march professing peace, why was the rhetoric so bellicose, especially the rhetoric from Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe? See two articles below.
Finally, as a [...]

January 24, 2008

HAITI: Vanessa Redgrave Joins Appeal for Kidnapped Human Rights Activist

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 [...]

January 23, 2008

VENEZUELA will denounce US before OAS regarding baseless accusations concerning drug interdiction

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 [...]