Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA Govt Incompentece

Haiti’s earthquake generated a $9bn response – where did the money go?

Show of metal … In offering tangible evidence of how donor money has been spent, the rebuilt Iron Market in Port-au-Prince is unusual. Photograph: View Pictures/Alamy…

Posted in Ag/Farming Earthquake/CHOLERA

U.S. Government Investments in Haiti’s Rebuilding and Renewal

Fact Sheet Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator January 11, 2013 In early 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made Haiti a foreign policy…

Posted in Earthquake/CHOLERA

Where Demolition and Exploitation Pass for Reconstruction and Development

By Dady Chery NEWS JUNKIE POST Jan 11, 2013 at 9:13 pm How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the…

Posted in Ag/Farming

For Haiti’s rice farmers, much depends on the free flow of water

In the rice-growing Artibonite Valley, Oxfam and partners are helping restore a lifeline: irrigation. December 28th, 2012 | by Elizabeth Stevens 131 0 9 When a massive…

Posted in Elections

Venezuela’s ailing Chavez unable to attend swearing-in, officials say

Raul Arboleda / AFP – Getty Images Two men paint a mural portraying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with the slogan “We shall overcome” on the…

Posted in Aristide/Preval Crime/Corruption DAILY REPORTS-Direct From Haiti

HAITIANS WOKE UP THIS MORNING – MONDAY – EXPECTING BIG PROBLEMS WHEN THE MARTELLY/LAMOTHE TEAM APPEARED BEFORE PARLIAMENT, BUT SOME DETAILS REVEAL THE PRI – BELIZAIRE – ARISTIDE/LAVALAS AGITATION IS REALLY AN EFFORT TO DEFLECT REVELATION OF CRIMINALITY – OR INCOMPETENCE

January 14, 2012 Deputy Arnel Belizaire faces a lifting of immunity, and imminent arrest, if he goes ahead with plans for paid Aristide/Lavalas agitators to…