06:35 PM Mar 05, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The top U.N. official in Haiti says the country must proceed with presidential elections. The acting head of the U.N. mission in Haiti, Edmond Mulet, told The Associated Press the country cannot afford a constitutional “slippage” as it rebuilds from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Two...
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During the Yalta Summit in World War II, Churchill and Roosevelt once pressed Stalin for his candid assessment of Hitler’s qualities as a wartime leader. Stalin immediately replied, “Hitler was a genius, but he never knew when to stop.” Many citizens of South America are beginning to wonder if Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and...
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He had spent all day asking questions in Creole and turning the answers into English. They were mostly the same questions: How did you lose your leg? Is your house still standing? What will you do now? But there came a moment when our translator stopped mid-sentence and refused to continue. He was a...
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By Robert Little Baltimore Sun reporter The Navy hospital ship Comfort discharged its last remaining patient last weekend and is anchored in Port-au-Prince harbor, empty but for its 993- member crew, waiting for military leaders to decide whether it still has a role in the U.S. response to January’s deadly earthquake in Haiti. Pentagon...
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Brendan Steven | Published: 3/2/10 On February 9, Max Silverman wrote an article that viewed the aid effort in Haiti through the prism of Naomi Klein’s “shock doctrine” theory. The shock doctrine posits a theory of “disaster capitalism,” where practitioners take advantage of emergency or upheaval to force free market reforms onto a rebuilding...
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Collin Powell se passe de présentation. « De sensibilité plutôt démocrate, le général Powell reste fidèle au parti de Ronald Reagan (républicain), entraînant avec lui bon nombre de Noirs américains, séduits par le culte de l’effort personnel (“self-help”) et de la réussite individuelle, spécifiques des années Reagan ». Fils d’immigré jamaicain, Ex Chef d’Etat-major...
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By Don Markus | don.markus@baltsun.comLocally based relief agencies are weighing what they might do to help victims of the earthquake in Chile, but said Monday that they had no plans to shift their principal focus from long-term recovery efforts in Haiti. While the 8.8-magnitude quake that struck Chile early Saturday was stronger than the...
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By LAWRENCE DOWNES There were floods on Saturday in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti. It rained in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, and again on Saturday and Sunday night, long enough to slick the streets and make a slurry of the dirt and concrete dust. Long enough, too, to give a sense of what will happen...
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Even before President Rene Garcia Preval met with the Obama team in Washington, his own team was getting to work in Haiti. Preval wants to derail the ONG efforts in Haiti. He would like to see them withdraw from the scene, leaving his Government the only one capable of accepting cash/materials for the Haitian...
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WASHINGTON POST By CHARLES J. HANLEY The Associated Press Monday, March 1, 2010; 12:01 AM – Tons of rice and beans tell how the world is helping Haiti. Missing tents, tarps and toilets show how it is falling short. Amid the misery, experts already are looking for lessons from the Haiti catastrophe – in...
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