Pic above is of Kevin Pina in the slammer in Port-au-Prince in October 2004 after his arrest while investigating the bogus arrest of Father Gerard Jean-Juste. Folks, Kevin Pina did a short program tonight on Radio KPFA – Flashpoints regarding the November election. His guests were Ansel Herz, independent journalist, on the ground in Haiti and Jacob […]
August 5, 2010
A special report from Kevin Pina on the decision by Wyclef Jean to run for president of Haiti. Listen to the report that begins at 40:00 minutes into the program. Guests include: Brian Concannon, Director, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti Andre Joseph, Miami-based radio producer and political commentator Wadner Pierre, Haitian Journalist in […]
July 7, 2010
Live from Haiti: Flashpoints Radio broadcast June 28 Kevin Pina interviews independent journalist Ansel Herz about growing desperation in the survivor camps, where an estimated 2 million Haitians are trying to survive as rains fall and the threat of hurricane is ever present. The program also speaks to Robert Roth of the Haiti Emergency Relief […]
January 29, 2010
Kevin Pina, journalist and documentary filmmaker, has been reporting on Haiti for 20 years. He is on the ground in Haiti now and provided this report on last night’s KPFA Flashpoints program. If interested in interviewing Kevin, please see info after this report. Kevin reports on Haiti daily through KPFA’s Flashpoints program. Flashpoints airs 5:00PM […]
January 25, 2010
Kevin Pina, journalist and documentary filmmaker, is a special correspondent for KPFA’s – Flashpoints program and is reporting from Haiti every day this week. Kevin has been reporting on Haiti for 20 years. The show airs live daily at 5:00PM West Coast time and 8:00PM East Coast time and the URL is: http://www.kpfa.org/ I encourage you to […]
April 22, 2009
Comments Off on HAITI: Lavalas Flexes Its Muscles by Kevin Pina
Lavalas flexes its muscles in Haiti by Kevin Pina President of Haiti Rene Preval appears visibly worried as his security detachment far out numbers voters at the polling station where he cast his ballot. A nearly empty ballot box sits at a polling station in Port-au-Prince on April 19, 2009. Voters overwhelmingly stayed away from […]
May 16, 2008
Comments Off on HAITI – Journalist, Ortega, Murdered in Haiti by US Marines: A Reporter’s Notes
Ortega murdered by US Marines in Haiti: A Reporter’s Notes by Kevin Pina The family of slain Spanish journalist Ricardo Ortega recently held a press conference in Madrid, Spain where they presented evidence that he was killed by U.S. Marines in Haiti and not by gunmen associated with ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The organization Reporters […]
May 9, 2008
Comments Off on HAITI: Neo-liberal Roots of Haiti’s Food Crisis – Interview of Kevin Pina
May 5, 2008 Kevin Pina is an independent journalist and filmmaker and the founding editor of the Haiti Information Project, an alternative news service providing coverage and analysis of developments in Haiti. He talked to Emmanuel Santos about the roots of the food crisis in Haiti. WHAT IS the current situation in Haiti after the […]
February 28, 2008
Comments Off on HAITI: As Seen by a Journalist Who Lived It
Much has been written by researchers and authors of books about the ousting of the democratically elected president of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004. Very few, however, actually lived through it. Journalist and film maker, Kevin Pina, is one of those few foreign journalists who continues to write about Haiti and was on […]
August 23, 2010
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