Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A little fish heads to jail

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Things are getting might interesting in Haiti again. Rene Civil, lately the chief of the Jeunesse Pouvoir Populaire (Youth Popular Power - ...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Guatemala - Assault on Press Freedom

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Three years ago this fall, in Guatemala City, I sat across a table from Jose Ruben Zamora, editor of Guatemala's El Periodico newspape...
Friday, August 25, 2006

Salman Rushdie and me

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There is an interesting web exclusive essay on Britain’s apparently latest homegrown terror plot by Foreign Policy editor James G. Forsyth ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

From Haiti to New Orleans

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I had a thoroughly enjoyable discourse with New York's venerable radio host Leonard Lopate on WNYC's Underreported today, discussin...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Michael Deibert on NPR's Underreported

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I'll be speaking about my recent trip to Haiti with Leonard Lopate on NPR's weekly Underreported program at noon this Thursday (24 A...

Gassant steps up once more

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With Police Nationale d’Haïti (PNH) chief Mario Andrésol, Secretary of State for Public Security Luc-Eucher Joseph and Senator from the Arti...
Monday, August 21, 2006

Lula "Walker" Strolling to Victory?

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There is a highly amusing post on the Brazzil Magazine site this week regarding this fall's upcoming presidential contest in Brazil, whe...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

Jazz Ayisyen

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Though I have been much enjoying the new Nickenson Prud'homme cd, it must be said that the Haitian music that has been inspiring most as...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

An unromanticized look at the Mafia and its victims

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Speaking of principled magistrates and their struggles against rancid politico-criminal actors and their bought-off cadres, I recently saw a...
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A good man back on the job?

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Good news from Haiti today, as it appears that none other than Claudy Gassant is back, and was greeted at the airport by Police nationale d’...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

Storm of Killing in Neighbourhood Has Wide Implications for Nation

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While the world fiddles... http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34213