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Haiti: Recycled Soldiers and Paramilitaries on the March Rebel forces are advancing on Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, sparking fears of widespread bloodshed. Among the leaders of the insurgency are such notorious figures as Louis Jodel Chamblain, a former paramilitary responsible for countless atrocities under the military government that ruled Haiti from 1991 to 1994. The reemergence of such violent and lawless men is a worrying portent for Haiti’s future....
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2004 12:01pm PST
Haiti Capital Braces For Attack Port-au-Prince is on edge with flaming barricades up across the city and armed masked men patrolling the streets as the Haitian capital braces for an assault by armed gangs opposed to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We go to Haiti to hear a report from the streets of Port-au-Prince....
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2004 10:03am PST
Oaks, petroleum fertilizer and Haiti la isla en el mar de Caribe called Haiti is center stage in the petroleum war shift. Corporations use FTAA/WTO globalization authority to exploit resources in South america. Oak trees could be part of global peace and ending violencia.....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 11:20pm PST
Haiti: Different Coup, Same Paramilitary Leaders For a closer look at what is happening right now on the ground in Haiti, we look back at the involvement of the U.S. in the 1991-1994 coup period with veteran investigative journalist Allan Nairn who broke a number of stories that proved the direct links between US intelligence agencies and Haitian paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 6:17pm PST
Congressional Black Caucus: Bush Must Stop Haiti Coup After President Bush rejected Haitian President Aristide's appeal for immediate security assistance from the international community, members of the Congressional Black Caucus expressed their concern at what they say is Bush's refusal to preserve the democratically elected government in Haiti. We speak with Black Caucus member Rep. Maxine Waters....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 6:15pm PST
Chaos and fear grip Haiti capital Looting has erupted in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, which advancing rebels have vowed to capture....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 12:50pm PST
Haiti: Throttled by history Haiti's political class has failed it, but the first black republic has also been squeezed dry by a vengeful west...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:37am PST
Renowned Haitian Journalist Michele Montas Discusses Haiti Award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas fled Haiti last year after her bodyguard was killed and continued threats against her forced her close her radio station and leave the country four years after her husband, Jean Dominique, was assassinated....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:14am PST
Aristide Warns of Possible Refugee Crisis in Haiti In the past week, more than 400 Haitian refugees have reportedly landed on beaches in Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands. We speak with the Center for Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner who has dealt extensively with the issue of Haitian refugees for many years....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:13am PST
Haiti's Lawyer: U.S. Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries As opponents of Haitian President Aristide reject a U.S.-brokered peace plan, we speak with Ira Kurzban who has served as General Counsel for the government of Haiti since 1991. [includes transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:12am PST
Aristide supporters prepare for last stand in Haiti capital Supporters of Haiti's embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide steeled themselves for a last stand in the capital, Port-au-Prince, yesterday. They faced a rapidly expanding rebel insurgency which tightened its grip on the country's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, and vowed to have the country under its control within two weeks....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 9:55am PST
Iraq occupation moving 2 Bolivia via Haiti? biodegradable plastics are a future product after the petroleum is drained from Iraq, the next stop of US military could be Haiti in preparation 4 invasion of Columbia, Venezuala, Bolivia, etc and other lands living near petroleum/natural gas reserves..
does Monsanto have gene altered hemp seeds ready 4 agribusiness of future?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 12:22pm PST
Support and Phone Calls Needed for Haiti We urgently need your support and telephone calls on the growing crisis in
Haiti....
Posted: Sat, Feb 21, 2004 6:38pm PST
Clashes spread to Haiti capital At least 20 people have been injured during a march in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, when militants loyal to the president attacked protesters....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 9:36pm PST
The little priest who became a bloody dictator like the one he once despised There was a time, 20 years ago, when anyone wishing to come to grips with the grotesque poverty and fitful violence of Haiti under the crumbling Duvalier dictatorship would have been itching to meet Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Back then, he was known as le petit prêtre, the little priest, a man whose modest stature belied a lion-hearted courage in denouncing social and political injustices....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 4:45pm PST
Haití: ‘Tentativos para golpe de estado’ La crisis política en Haití se puso al rojo vivo esta semana, cuando la oposición al presidente Jean-Bertrand Aristide intensificó su violencia, especialmente en la zona norte del país. Mientras tanto, elementos de derechistas en la capital aumentan sus llamadas a que Aristide renuncie su puesto....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 10:17pm PST
Haiti: ‘a coup d’état in the making’ The political crisis in Haiti reached a boiling point this week as violence by opponents of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide intensified, particularly in the northern part of the country, while right-wing elements in the capital stepped up their calls for Aristide to resign....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 7:26pm PST
Trinicenter Updates On Haiti Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 9:22am PST
History Repeating: Is A Coup Brewing in Haiti? The situation in the small island nation of Haiti is growing more severe by the hour. There are now fears that the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide could be overthrown in a violent coup d'etat. For weeks, gangs of armed groups have attacked police stations and other government outposts. More than 50 people have been killed and the violent insurgency is daily increasing its weapons supplies. Aristide's official government forces are ill-equipped to defend against the...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 9:19am PST
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