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27/8/05
FAIR Elections in Haiti
ZNet – Woods Hole,MA,USA
by Jean St-Vil. All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall
elections in Haiti. … So, could authentic elections be held in today’s
Haiti? …
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8592
HAITI police chief vows to probe soccer deaths
Unison.ie (subscription) – Ireland
Haiti’s police chief vowed to investigate claims that police and a mob
of civilians killed at least six people during a soccer match in a poor
neighbourhood of …
www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=29&si=78263
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050828T0000
00-0500_87097_OBS_FOOTBALL_PRESCRIPTION.asp
Football prescription
Jamaica Observer – Kingston,Jamaica
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Brazilian peacekeepers have tried offering free medical care, film screenings and even haircuts to win over residents of the …
www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050827T190000
-0500_87032_OBS_HYPOCRISY_AND_PAT_ROBERTSON_.asp
Hypocrisy and Pat Robertson
Jamaica Observer – Kingston,Jamaica
On Thursday, March 4, 2004 in the days subsequent to Aristide’s forced removal from Haiti by the US, I wrote a column titled, Haiti and the Lunatic Right. …
26/8/05
HAITI recalls envoy over deaths
BBC News – UK
The interim government in Haiti has recalled its top diplomat from the
Dominican Republic after three Haitians were beaten and burnt to death
there. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4188322.stm
RELEASE of Former Haitian Paramilitary Leader Draws Condemnation
Voice of America – USA
By Amy Bracken. In Haiti, the recent release of an imprisoned former paramilitary
leader has drawn condemnation from diplomats and human rights activists.
…
www.voanews.com/english/2005-08-26-voa9.cfm
TEXAN seeks change for his native Haiti
WFAA (subscription) – Dallas,TX,USA
… hardly noticed. Dumas Siméus speaks to an enthusiastic crowd in Haiti
during his quest to become president of his native land. Four …
www.wfaa.com/s/dws/wfaa/localnews/news
8/stories/wfaa050819_am_simeus.8ce40fd7.html
RIO Group confirms support for Haiti and Chavez
MercoPress – Uruguay
The Argentine Foreign Ministry said the central topic will be the situation
in Haiti, where many member countries have contributed troops to the UN
…
www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=6330
5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness machete and hatchet massacre by …
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
by Tom Luce with AUMOHD investigators. Dredging up fearsome memories of
days thought to have gone by forever, eyewitnesses here in …
www.haitiaction.net/News/TL/8_26_5/8_26_5.html
www.unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=29&si=78263&breakingnews=1
Haiti police chief vows to probe soccer deaths
Bray People – Ireland
Haiti’s police chief vowed to investigate claims that police and a mob of civilians killed at least six people during a soccer match in a poor neighbourhood of …
www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/12488320.htm
Haitian officials change pro-Aristide priest’s prison
Bradenton Herald – FL, United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Authorities have transferred a jailed Roman Catholic priest and prominent supporter of Haiti’s ousted president from the National …
www.haitiaction.net/News/TL/8_26_5/8_26_5.html
5000 soccer fans in Haiti witness machete and hatchet massacre by …
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
by Tom Luce with AUMOHD investigators. Dredging up fearsome memories of days thought to have gone by forever, eyewitnesses here in …
25/8/05
www.iacenter.org/haiti_0805.htm
Urgent Alert on Behalf of Haiti!!
International Action Center – USA
US/UN Out of Haiti! Stop the Massacres! Free ALL Political Prisoners! Restore Pres. Aristide! Please join our online campaign to …
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15559&Cr=Haiti&Cr1=MINUSTAH
Haiti: UN peacekeeper shot in leg as violence continues in capital …
UN News Centre
25 August 2005 — A United Nations peacekeeper in Haiti was shot in the leg and seriously wounded when his patrol came under fire from armed bands in Port-au …
www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID=%7B60F11B3F-D04C
-42E0-8378-0582F14B84BD%7D&language=EN
Rio Group Foreign Ministers Meet
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
According to the host of the meeting, Argentine´s foreign ministry, the central topic will be the situation in Haiti, where many member countries have …
www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1721/1/115/
After Protests: Haitian Police Arm Attachés to Conduct Massacres …
Political Affairs Magazine – New York,NY,USA
… night. In Haiti, the collaboration between official and unofficial repressive forces is conducted openly and in broad daylight. …
www.pww.org/article/articleview/7599/1/283
UN troops in Haiti aid repression, critics charge
People’s Weekly World – USA
On July 6, 350 soldiers from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah) stormed the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil, one of the …
www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=1718
Migrant slayings trigger tensions between Haiti and Dominican …
Brandon Sun – Manitoba, Canada
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haiti recalled its top diplomat to the Dominican Republic on Thursday after three Haitian migrants were beaten and burned to death …
www.sfbayview.com/082405/machetelynchings082405.shtml
More machete lynchings in Haiti: 7-20 hacked to death in Grande …
San Francisco Bay View – San Francisco,CA,USA
… The UN has charge of the Police in Haiti. To contact UN Forces in Haiti, call or fax a letter to Juan Gabriel Valdes, Special Representative …
HAITI Recalls Top Diplomat
Guardian Unlimited – UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haiti recalled its top diplomat to the Dominican
Republic on Thursday after three Haitian migrants were beaten and burned
to death …
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5234514,00.html
URGENT Alert on Behalf of Haiti!!
International Action Center – USA
US/UN Out of Haiti! Stop the Massacres! Free ALL Political Prisoners! Restore
Pres. Aristide! Please join our online campaign to …
www.iacenter.org/haiti_0805.htm
UN troops in Haiti aid repression, critics charge
People’s Weekly World – USA
On July 6, 350 soldiers from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in
Haiti (Minustah) stormed the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil,
one of the …
www.pww.org/article/articleview/7599/1/283
HAITI: UN Mission Condemns Rash Of Lynchings
Scoop.co.nz (press release) – New Zealand
Facing a new show of disorder in Haiti, the United Nations police force
in the strife-torn country has strongly condemned a rash of lynchings
that has erupted …
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0508/S00249.htm
AFTER Protests: Haitian Police Arm Attachés to Conduct Massacres …
Political Affairs Magazine – New York,NY,USA
… night. In Haiti, the collaboration between official and unofficial
repressive forces is conducted openly and in broad daylight. …
www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1721/1/115/
24/8/05
www.haitiaction.net/News/BQ/8_23_5.html
Haiti prisoner Father Jean-Juste denied medical treatment by coup …
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
… Johanna Berrigan, a nurse practicioner from Philadelphia went to visit him today in Haiti with Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit. …
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3962
Dominican army seizes weapons bound for Haiti
Haiti Info – Haiti
The army seized a shipment of arms and munitions in Jimani last night which were being taken to Haiti in a minibus hired by a Haitian who had damaged his jeep …
www.haitiaction.net/News/MW/8_23_5.html
Haiti: Congresswoman Waters says that Ambassador Foley was right …
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
Maxine Waters (CA-35) released a statement in response to Ambassador James B. Foley’s comments regarding the interim government of Haiti. …
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6FKSSQ?OpenDocument
Haiti Weekly Emergency Situation Report No. 42
ReliefWeb (press release) – Geneva,Switzerland
… Following the killing, the Canadian Foreign Minister has strongly advised Canadian citizens “against all travel to Haiti” and urged that “Canadians …
www.haitiaction.net/News/AUMOHD/8_24_5.html
Haiti: Lavalas holds second demonstration in Cap Haïtien
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
Cap Haïtien, Haiti — Lavalas party leader Moïse Jean Charles tried a second time to hold a march in Cap Haïtien on Sunday, August 21 to publicize the …
UN to investigate Haiti slum lynchings
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The UN mission in Haiti has launched
an inquiry into the lynching of at least 20 people by vigilantes armed
with …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24642131.htm
JAILED priest in Haiti says he will run for president with ousted …
San Diego Union Tribune – United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A jailed Roman Catholic priest says he is waiting
for the backing of deposed leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide before he decides
to run …
www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050824-1337-haiti-jailedpriest.html
ONLINE Petition Regarding Haiti :Dear Mr. Wolfowitz[World Bank …
Political Affairs Magazine – New York,NY,USA
On July 27, the World Bank posted on its web site an article titled “Haiti:
One Year Later” [1] that grossly misrepresents the current reality in
Haiti. …
www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1717/1/32/
FAIR Elections in Haiti: Imagine the Possibilities!
Embassy – Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
All indicators suggest a fiasco for the scheduled fall elections in Haiti.
… So, could authentic elections be held in today’s Haiti? …
www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/august/24/haiti/
23/8/05
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4175096.stm
Liverpool remembers slave trade
BBC News – UK
… It is held each year on 23 August – the anniversary of an uprising in 1791 of African slaves on the Caribbean island of St Domingo, now called Haiti.
www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/08/23/visa.shtml
CGID denounces Dominica’s visa requirement for Haitians
Caribbean Net News – Georgetown,Cayman Islands
… Haitians has come to a point where it is a serious national security concern, and that the new restrictions would reduce the large number of visitors from Haiti …
www.hardbeatnews.com/editor/RTE/my_documents/
my_files/details.asp?newsid=4619&title=Top%20Stories
Brooklyn Group Slams Dominica Over Visa Requirement For Haitians
Hardbeatnews.com – Jackson Heughts,NY,USA
… Revised Treaty of Chaguramas.” His comment comes almost a month after Skerrit revealed that visa requirements would be placed on nationals from Haiti and the …
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15521&Cr=Haiti&Cr1=MINUSTAH
Chief of UN mission in Haiti says mission must not leave …
UN News Centre
23 August 2005 — The chief of the United Nations mission in Haiti says the peacekeepers should not leave the Caribbean country prematurely, thereby repeating …
www.ww4report.com/node/970
Lynching in Haiti; ethnic cleanisng in Dominican Republic
World War 4 Report – Brooklyn,NY,USA
Escalating violence continues to make life unlivable in Haiti, with police forces and foreign “peacekeepers” contributing to the bloodshed—while those who …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-war
-operation-na mes,1,2908162.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
Some High-Profile US Military Operations
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
… and humanitarian relief. * Operation Uphold Democracy, 1994-95, Haiti, to restore constitutional rule. * Operation Assured Response …
HAITI Under US Pressure to Release Neptune
Village Voice – New York,NY,USA
The outgoing US ambassador to Haiti recently joined a chorus of politicians
expressing outrage over the unlawful imprisonment of former prime minister
Yvon …
villagevoice.com/generic/act_headlinedirect.php?title=Haiti+Under+U
.S.+Pressure+to+Release+Neptune&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.villagevo
ice.com%2Fnews%2Findex.php%3Fissue%3D0533%26page%3Dhunter3%26id%3D66886%26cid%3D6
CHIEF of UN mission in Haiti says mission must not leave …
UN News Centre
23 August 2005 — The chief of the United Nations mission in Haiti says
the peacekeepers should not leave the Caribbean country prematurely, thereby
repeating …
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15521&Cr=Haiti&Cr1=MINUSTAH
WIDE ANGLE Documents Haiti’s Newest Efforts to Move from Disorder …
Business Wire (press release) – San Francisco,CA,USA
23, 2005—Battered by hurricanes, embroiled in political turmoil, overrun
by armed gangs, and largely ignored by the international community, Haiti
is trying …
home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?
ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050823005216&newsLang=en
UN envoy proposes extension of peacekeeping forces presence in …
Xinhua – China
23 (Xinhuanet) — UN peacekeeping forces presence in Haiti should be extended
for another four years, UN special envoy to Haiti Juan Gabriel Valdes
was quoted …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/24/content_3395611.htm
UN envoy proposes extension of peacekeeping forces presence in …
Haiti Info – Haiti
BRASILIA, Aug 23, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — UN peacekeeping forces presence
in Haiti should be extended for another four years, UN special envoy to
Haiti …
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3963
22/8/05
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15502&Cr=&Cr1=
UN mission chief for Haiti meets troop contributors in Chile
UN News Centre
… troops have made history by uniting in a mission to assist a country in the region, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti told a two-day …
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/12445883.htm
Justice in Haiti
Miami Herald – FL,USA
Haiti’s interim government can’t seem to get it right when it comes to keeping the bad guys in jail and dealing fairly with political opponents. …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22502674.htm
Aristide party threatents to boycott Haiti poll
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The party of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would boycott elections later this …
ARISTIDE party threatents to boycott Haiti poll
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The party of ousted Haitian president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would boycott elections later
this …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22502674.htm
UN mission chief for Haiti meets troop contributors in Chile
UN News Centre
… troops have made history by uniting in a mission to assist a country
in the region, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in
Haiti told a two-day …
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=15502&Cr=&Cr1=
CEO seeks new job: the president of Haiti
San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
… His humble roots are here, too: a framed photograph of a two-room shack
with an aluminum roof in the village of Pont-Sonde, Haiti, where he was
born 65 years …
www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/12444729.htm
£500M insurance blow after Hurricane Dennis
Scotsman – United Kingdom
The initial estimates for the hurricane, which left 32 people dead in Haiti
and Cuba before battering the US states of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi
last …
business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1824082005
21/8/05
VIOLENCE escalates in Haiti as key election approaches
Houston Chronicle – United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Renowned poet and journalist Jacques Roche was
visiting his younger brother last month when gangs kidnapped him at gunpoint.
…
www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3318277
SHOCK wave from Haiti
Montreal Gazette – Montreal,Quebec,Canada
… Campeau said he talked with Therrien the day before his Wednesday flight
back to Haiti. Therrien had just finished his three-week …
www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/
story.html?id=63a5b158-865d-41d2-923e-89486a50dbab
HURRICANE Dennis bill to top $900m
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
… first estimates for Dennis – which battered Florida, Alabama and Mississippi
after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean and leaving 32 people dead in Haiti
and Cuba …
www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/
08/22/cnins22.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/08/22/ixfrontcity.html
BAY Area teacher describes Haiti visit
The Argus – Fremont,CA,USA
… Spalding, a San Leandro resident and San Lorenzo high school science
teacher, spent 10 days of his summer vacation traveling Haiti with a small
delegation from …
www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_2960625
19/8/05
CANADIAN killed in Haiti fleeing kidnappers
CTV – Canada
MONTREAL — A Canadian citizen from Ste-Adele, Que., has been killed in
Haiti during an attempted kidnapping. The body of Denis …
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1124485769403_119894969/?hub=World
VIOLENCE intruding on elite in Haiti
San Jose Mercury News – United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – (KRT) – In the quiet green hills above this lawless
city, a couple hundred of Haiti’s well-to-do gathered last month in the
upscale …
www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12424154.htm
HAITIAN Police Distribute Machetes in Bel Air
Village Voice – New York,NY,USA
In what some are describing as a new tactic employed by Haiti’s notorious
national police to control the slums of Port-au-Prince, last week officers
were seen …
www.villagevoice.com/news/0534,belair,67072,6.html
GAS prices fuel 1-day strike in Haiti
Workers World – USA
On Aug. 8, the Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti (APCH) held a
countrywide, one-day strike over a sharp, unannounced increase in fuel
prices. …
www.workers.org/2005/editorials/haiti-0825
18/8/05
UN condemns ‘lynching’ in Haiti
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – A spokesman for the UN mission in Haiti
condemned on Thursday what he called the lynching of several alleged bandits
by …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N8I345154.htm
UN top official inspects mission’s work in Haiti
China Daily – China
… The spokesman also expressed his concern over Haiti’s security, and
called on all sides involved to stop their violence and cooperate actively
with UN …
www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/18/content_470203.htm
STRONG Efforts Needed for Guyana And Haiti To Reach UN Goals
Pan American Health Organization – Washington,DC,USA
Washington, DC, August 18, 2005 (PAHO)—A stronger effort will be needed
for Guyana and Haiti to reach the public health objectives of the United
Nations …
www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr050818.htm
www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/08/19/vie.shtml
15 vie for Haiti presidency on new dates
Caribbean Net News – Georgetown,Cayman Islands
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): At least 15 candidates have launched campaigns for Haiti’s presidency, and a source said Thursday the election commission would …
www.haitiaction.net/News/KP/8_18_5/8_18_5.html
Haiti: Massacre in the Making
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
… They have a choice, either go ahead at the behest of the US Embassy and Haiti’s traditional reactionary business elite, or sit down and talk to avoid the …
journalists.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=397
Concerns Over Proposal To Limit Media Freedom In Haiti
Journalists Network – USA
A number of media organizations have expressed deep concern over the communique issued by the interim government in Haiti in which a number of ministries have …
journalists.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=396
Haiti: Police Accused Of Aggression Against TV Cameraman
Journalists Network – USA
According to news reported by a private radio station, a cameraman from the private TV station was allegedly beaten up by police oficers in the violent area of …
17/8/05
UN mission in Haiti says murders have increased, appeals for calm
ReliefWeb (press release) – Geneva,Switzerland
The United Nations mission in Haiti today condemned a rising rate of shooting
deaths and presumed lynchings in the last two weeks in the capital, Port-au-Prince
…
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6FC42B?OpenDocument
A US CEO makes a bid to run Haiti
Christian Science Monitor – USA
Dumarsais Siméus, the most successful Haitian-American businessman in
the US today, is going home to run for president of Haiti. …
www.csmonitor.com/2005/0818/p01s02-woam.html
TOP UN Official Visits Haiti
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Port-au-Prince, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping
Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno´s visit to Haiti seeks to strengthen the
…
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC3F30C25
-D2DF-4B82-8EE3-BEE830796F4A%7D&language=EN
HAITIAN priest reports collapse in prison
Catholic World News – USA
Port-au-Prince, Aug. 17 (CWNews.com) – An imprisoned Catholic priest reportedly
collapsed in jail in Haiti on Sunday, and required urgent medical treatment.
…
www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39059
LETTER from Haiti National Penitentiary We Hear Hope Coming
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
Port au Prince Haiti – Haiti National Penitentiary – Brothers and sisters
around the world, allow me to thank you for what you have done for me
personally, and …
www.haitiaction.net/News/FrJJ/8_16_5.html
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC3F30C25-D2DF
-4B82-8EE3-BEE830796F4A%7D&language=EN
Top UN Official Visits Haiti
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Port-au-Prince, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno´s visit to Haiti seeks to strengthen the …
www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html?id=b6778e3f-79cb-4f40-aaa4-6f11de15a092
BC news calendar: Aug. 17
Vancouver Sun (subscription) – Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
… Through Sept. 4. — Local activists protesting over Haiti demonstrate as Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew appears at Young Liberal event.
www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=7986
A blue beret and a new iron fist
MONUC.org (press release) – Democratic Republic of the Congo
… The 12-hour UN operation in Cite Soleil signalled an escalation of force in Haiti, where the Brazilian-led UN mission had been criticised for months by the …
www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6FC42B?OpenDocument
UN mission in Haiti says murders have increased, appeals for calm
ReliefWeb (press release) – Geneva,Switzerland
The United Nations mission in Haiti today condemned a rising rate of shooting deaths and presumed lynchings in the last two weeks in the capital, Port-au-Prince …
16/8/05
PROMINENT Catholic priest jailed in Haiti collapses in cell
Dateline Alabama – Birmingham,AL,USA
… in the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a possible
presidential candidate, passed out for 20 minutes Sunday at Haiti’s National
Penitentiary …
www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200
50816/APN/508161261&cachetime=3&template=dateline
VIOLENCE intruding on elite in Haiti
Miami Herald – FL,USA
… PORT-AU-PRINCE – In the quiet green hills above this lawless city,
a couple hundred of Haiti’s well-to-do gathered last month in the upscale
Hotel Montana to …
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12393909.htm
IN Haiti, rhetoric trumps human rights
Boston Globe – United States
By Todd Howland | August 16, 2005. THE US-INSPIRED peacekeeping approach
being utilized by the United Nations in Haiti is a failure. …
www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/
articles/2005/08/16/in_haiti_rhetoric_trumps_human_rights
BUSINESSMAN’S goal is to lead homeland
Miami Herald – FL,USA
A Haitian-American businessman who was born in poverty but is a self-made
millionaire faces long odds in his campaign for the presidency of Haiti.
…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12399739.htm
15/8/05
www.haitiaction.net/News/FL/8_14_5.html
Haiti’s leading political party condemns “sham” elections …
Haiti Action Committee – Haiti
… of Fanmi Lavalas, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, stated: “Today in 2005, who can expect free, fair and democratic elections in Haiti while thousands of …
HAITI Under US Pressure to Release Neptune
Village Voice – New York,NY,USA
The outgoing US ambassador to Haiti recently joined a chorus of politicians
expressing outrage over the unlawful imprisonment of former prime minister
Yvon …
www.villagevoice.com/news/0533,hunter3,66886,6.html
FROM lawless homeland, demand for ransom
Boston Globe – United States
By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Staff | August 15, 2005. One evening in late June,
Roberthe got the call everyone with relatives in Haiti has come to dread.
…
www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/
2005/08/15/from_lawless_homeland_demand_for_ransom
POLITICAL cartoonists lighten the mood in troubled times
Miami Herald – FL,USA
… Using bold colors that belie an otherwise crumbling landscape, cartoonist
Marc ‘’Fréo’’ Francois sketches a rakish rendition of Haiti today where
leaders …
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12384735.htm
OAS SATISFIED WITH VOTER REGISTRATION IN HAITI
Harold Doan and Associates (press release) – Rocklin,CA,USA
With all 427 voter registration offices open and operational in Haiti,
the Organization of American States (OAS) is pleased and encouraged by
the number of …
www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5204
14/8/05
www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=856
The Truth Behind the Haiti Coup
Free Speech TV – Boulder,CO,USA
Over 2000 people gathered in the Whitman Theatre of Brooklyn College for a historic event, to hear about the coup d’etat in Haiti and the kidnapping of Pres. …
UN Peacekeeping More Assertive, Creating Risk for Civilians
Washington Post – United States
… The 12-hour UN operation in Cité Soleil signaled an escalation of
force in Haiti, where the Brazilian-led UN mission had been criticized
for months by the …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081400946.html
HAITI: A SCAR IN THE FACE OF AMERICA
Anarkismo.net – USA
This article is a brief summary of two articles previously published in
Spanish, “Haiti: la cara sucia de las razones humanitarias” (OSL editions,
Buenos …
www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1159
LEADER of uprising released from prison
Chicago Tribune – United States
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — A Haitian rebel leader who once led a paramilitary
group accused of killing and torturing thousands of people has been released
from …
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-05081
40129aug14,1,5853346.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
THE Truth Behind the Haiti Coup
Free Speech TV – Boulder,CO,USA
Over 2000 people gathered in the Whitman Theatre of Brooklyn College for
a historic event, to hear about the coup d’etat in Haiti and the kidnapping
of Pres. …
www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=856
13/8/05
KIDNAPPED former legislator released in Haiti, friends and family …
Haiti Info – Haiti
Kely Bastien, who presided over Haiti’s lower house of Parliament from
1995-2000, said he believed his captors seized him for financial gain,
not political …
www.haiti-info.com/article.php3?id_article=3946
PROMINENT Haitian gangster says he’s ready to surrender to the …
Macleans – Toronto,ON,Canada
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders
said he would be willing to surrender if the United Nations peacekeeping
force could …
www.macleans.ca/topstories/news/shownews.jsp?content=w081363A
www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20050813T200000-0500_86057
_OBS_POSITIVE_SIGNALS_FROM_HAITI__NOW_FOR_CONCRETE_ACTION__.asp
Positive signals from Haiti, now for concrete action
Jamaica Observer – Kingston,Jamaica
With parliamentary and presidential elections in Haiti on the horizon, possibly in November, there are indications of significant shifts in policies and …
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