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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
No coup in Haiti!
In the past week, armed gangs have roamed through major cities in Haiti, attacking police and civilians in an increasingly violent campaign to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Describing the so-called “rebel group” leading these assaults in Gonaives, Scott Wilson of the Washington Post - no friend of the Aristide government - wrote that “at its upper echelons the group appears led by former members of the Haitian military, dissolved in 1994 when Arist...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 10:56am 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
Haiti: preparations for possible refugee exodus
The joining of notorious perpetrator of human rights violations Louis Jodel Chamblain and his followers with armed rebels accused of past abuses in the Central Plateau would create another devastating threat to respect for human rights in Haiti, Amnesty International said today....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 4:05pm PST
Haiti split in two as rebels advance
The armed rebellion in Haiti extended its reach over the central third of the country yesterday after 50 men led by a former army death-squad commander stormed the town of Hinches, near the border with the Dominican Republic, killing the police chief and breaking open the local prison....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 8:01pm PST
Media vs. Reality in Haiti
Judging by the corporate media’s recent coverage of the crisis in Haiti, one might be led to believe that they are “aiding and abetting” an attempted coup d’etat aimed at the democratically elected Jean Bertand Aristide. On a daily basis, mainstream international media is churning out stories provided mainly by the Associated Press and Reuters that have little basis in fact....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:40pm PST
Flashpoints: US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti
Today on Flashpoints: The General Council for the government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks about Empire and the US Global Agenda...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:35pm PST
Rep. Maxine Waters Charges U.S. Is Encouraging A Coup in Haiti
Several thousand demonstrators clashed with supporters of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide this weekend as they marched through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince. We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) about what role the U.S. is playing in the current events in the country....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 4:27pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Liason Update 2/11
1. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks Calls on Powell for Haiti Solution 2. Crisis in Haiti, (Washington Post EDITORIAL), February 11, 2004 3. Haiti Erupts (New York Times EDITORIAL), , February 11, 2004 4. Haiti grapples with violence... (Miami Herald EDITORIAL) February 11, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:55am PST
Haitian police back in control of St Marc
According to Michaele Lucius, the chief of staff for Police Headquarters of
Haiti's National Police in Port-au-Prince, the police are in control of St.
Marc....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 6:16pm PST
Haiti siege claims more lives
Violence is continuing in Haiti with anti-government rebels saying they have killed 14 policemen in fresh fighting for control of the city of Gonaives....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 5:16pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update 2/6
1. Press fail to identify key players and timing in Gonaives opposition
2. UN Statement in response to Gonaives opposition violence
3. President Aristide inaugurates new public hospital/Receives diplomatic
delegation
4. Opposition rejects talks with Aristide... by Ottey and Charles, Miami
Herald
5. Rep. Waters: "Time for US to get tough with Apaid and the opposition in
Haiti."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 12:31pm PST
Haiti Update 2/5
1. President Aristide: Meeting with union sector/Meeting with Caricom
delegation
2. Haiti's Descent, New York Times Editorial
3. Women's Group Denounces Degradation of Women by Opposition Marchers...
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2004 9:57am PST
2/4 Haiti Update
1. An open letter to Caricom by Randall Robinson (The Jamaica Gleaner)
2. The end of nationhood, by John Maxwell (The Jamaica Observer)
3. Travel Safety Report by Pax Christi USA Haiti Task Force, February 3, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 4:39pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Liason Update
I thank you for being in Haiti and I thank you for releasing and spraying the
truth around the world on behalf of the Haitian people as one of the richest
countries of the world, from a cultural point of view, from an historic point
of view......
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 10:25am PST
1/27 Haiti News Update
Port-au-Prince, January 27, 2004 -(AHP)- The Conference of Haitian pastors
(COPAH) on Tuesday denounced the increase in acts of violence throughout the
country and asked the various sectors to take on their responsibilities to
prevent the country from sinking into catastrophe....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 11:33pm PST