CAPTIONS 1/24 Related Photos: Laughlin’s life-changing experience Photos: Anti-Aristide march turns violent Read Laughlin’s first person account Photos Photos: Hurricanes Jean and Hannah strike Gonaives Photos: 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Port Au Prince Photos: iPhone pictures from Haiti See more photos » By Mike Clary, SunSentinel.com12:00 a.m. EST, March 7, 2014 When photographer Michael...
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Aristide/Preval
The antics of Aristide, René Préval, and current President Martelly
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Haiti protesters rally to mark ouster of ex-leader-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supporters of former two-time President Jean-Bertrand Aristide rallied in the Haitian capital on Thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of his second ouster. The crowd reached about 2,000 people as it passed through the Port-au-Prince shantytowns where Aristide still enjoys a following. The protesters denounced what they described as widespread...
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OAS Insider Details Proposed Coup Against Haiti’s Preval and Cholera’s ‘Genocide by Negligence’-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
In a new book, International Crossroads and Failures in Haiti, Brazilian professor Ricardo Seitenfus, former Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador to Haiti, details international meddling in Haiti’s 2010 elections, discussions by a “core group” of a coup to force then-President René Préval from office, and ballot box tinkering that guaranteed candidate Jude Celestin...
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Note du Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humais (RNDDH)
MASSACRE DE LA SCIERIE : LE RNDDH SOUHAITE LA REPRISE, AU PLUS VITE, DU DOSSIER ARREST ARISTIDE AND PREVAL Publié par haiti-refondation-org Le Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humais (RNDDH) rappelle qu’au début du mois de février 2004, le Pouvoir lavalas avait exercé une action punitive au quartier deLa Scierie à Saint-Marc (bastion de...
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Haiti court urges further probes on Duvalier trial: BUT WHAT ABOUT ARISTIDE AND PREVAL?-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A Haitian appellate court called for further investigation into human rights abuses allegedly committed during the 15-year rule of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, creating an opportunity for the prosecution to submit more evidence and perhaps even launch a trial against him. The three-judge panel said Thursday...
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$37 million in cocaine arrives in Miami Beach after ‘historic haul’ by Coast Guard
BY CHARLES RABIN crabin@MiamiHerald.com The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sitkinak pulled into the Miami Beach Coast Guard station Tuesday morning showing off what it called a “historic” cocaine haul made possible through joint operations with the British Royal Fleet. Several officers unloaded 2,500 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated street value of more than...
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Au nom de l’auteur intellecutal »de Jean Dominique assassiner parle-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
ATLANTA, USA (sentinel.ht) – Former Senator Mirlande Liberus said on Tuesday that she was not surprised that the investigation into the 2000 murder of journalist Jean Dominique named here as the “intellectual author” of the crime. During a radio interview, the former head of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy said she would consult with...
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Comittee toProtect Journalists calls on Haitian authorities to act in Dominique murder
A Haitian woman hands out photographs of Jean Lépold Dominique, a journalist who was killed in 2000. (AFP/Thony Belizaire) New York, January 21, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes new progress in the case of Jean Lépold Dominique, a prominent Haitian radio journalist who was murdered in 2000, and renews its calls to the...
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The Murder of Jean Dominique – (Labanye’s Interview ) An extract from Corbet email !
Part of Labanye’s interview went as follows: “Poor Dominique! The person who killed Dominique works at the National Palace. It is Deputy Mayor Harold Severe, former mayor of Port-au-Prince. On the day of Dominique’s murder, that is, on 3 April 2000, Severe contacted So Anne (Sister Anne, nickname for Anne Auguste, a staunch Aristide...
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