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Haiti -- A jailed Catholic priest who was
suspended from his religious duties for political
activities appealed Wednesday to church authorities
to reverse a punishment that supporters claim was
intended to halt his growing influence in the
Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. |
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The
FTAA: A Recipe for Economic Disaster?•
As a result of vehement opposition from around Latin
America, the Bush administration’s efforts to
draft and pass the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area
of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) have registered a
mixed message among policy makers.
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Witnesses:
Haiti Police Kill 5 in Raid .-Police
stormed a volatile slum in the capital Wednesday in an
attack on well-armed gangs that witnesses said left at
least five people dead — including a pregnant woman
and a teenage boy.
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envoy criticizes release of Haiti rebel.-PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Haiti
on Friday called the release from jail of a former
death squad leader "a scandal" and
criticized the detention of former Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune as a human rights violation.
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Haiti
justice minister urges release of prisoners.-Haiti's
new justice minister called on Wednesday for the
release or trial without delay of hundreds of
prisoners being held without charge, which he
denounced as a violation of human rights.
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Congressman
Kendrick B. Meek, 17th Congressional District of
Florida .-WASHINGTON,
DC - Today, Congressman Kendrick B. Meek wrote to
Haitian Prime Minister Gérard Latortue to express his
"serious concerns" over the state of the
Haitian judicial system, which has been characterized
by sham trials, political arrests, and indefinite
detentions without charges or trials.
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Haiti
Support Group concerned about proposals that threaten
to limit media freedom.-The London-based
solidarity organization, the Haiti Support Group (HSG),
is very concerned about the 20 July communiqué issued
by the interim government council of ministers in
which a number of ministries were instructed to take
"appropriate measures against all media or
journalists promoting a discourse of hatred and
interviewing bandits.
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| Haiti:
Is election possible this year? -Port-au-Prince/Brussels,3
August 2005:
Extraordinary efforts are needed in the next few
months to turn a bad situation around or Haiti's
elections will have to be postponed. |
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The
Haitian American Political Action Committee pledges
support to the members of the Lavalas Party and to
all Haitians who have independently taken the
decision to boycott the UN sponsored mock election
in Haiti. |
Evidence is mounting that
United Nations peacekeepers shot and killed unarmed
civilians, including children, during a recent raid in
Haiti. The UN said it was ready to investigate the
alleged 'use of unnecessary force'.
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Priest Assaulted by Mob at Funeral and Arrested for
Murder.-On Thursday July 21, 2005, Fr.
Gerard Jean-Juste went to St. Pierre's Catholic
Church to be one of the priests participating in the
funeral of Haitian journalist Jacques Roche |
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| Final
Delegation Report on UN Massacre.-Growing
Evidence of a Massacre by UN Occupation Forces in
Port-au-Prince Neighborhood of Cite Soleil. A
Summary of Findings of the US Labor and Human Rights
Delegation to Haiti |
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| Bush
Plan: More Guns for Thugs - Throwing Gasoline on
Haiti's Fires
On June 23, the U.S.
State Department briefed members of Congress on
its plan to distribute thousands of handguns to
the Haitian National
Police, continuing a program that sent 2,657
weapons to Haiti for the
police last year, despite an embargo.
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| Town
Computer Kicks Off its 2nd Fundraising
Campaign to Combat Hunger in Haiti.
On
July 2nd, with a crowd of
customers, employees, business partners
and volunteers, Karrie Ann Jean, Town
Computer’s Vice President, flanked by
her husband Jacques Dady Jean, launched
their second fundraising to combat hunger
in Haiti Full
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Also Turns The UN Request to Send Troops in
Haiti.- UNITED
NATIONS
— Canada cannot send more peacekeepers to
Haiti right now, the ambassador said Friday,
after UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
suggested he may call on Ottawa or Paris to
send more troops for the mission.
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| Haiti:
5 Killed in Hurricane Dennis -
Hurricane Dennis swept away a bridge and
peeled tin roofs off homes in Haiti, killing
at least five people as it strengthened to a
Category 4 storm and headed straight for
Cuba.
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Ambassador: Violence Is Terrorism.-PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti - The U.S. ambassador to Haiti said
continuing political violence against
civilians in the Caribbean country amounts
to "terrorism." Full
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| Crisis in
Haiti: Violence, Kidnappings Provoke
Charities, Foreigners to Flee.-Port-au-Prince,
Haiti—The security situation in Haiti
continues to decline, provoking the exodus
of charity workers and foreign residents.Full
Story
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| Haitian
Migrants Feared Dead in Sinking - A
boat carrying dozens of migrants
fleeing Haiti sank off the island's
coast, killing two people and
leaving 11 others feared dead, a
U.N. official said Monday. Full
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| Bilateral
trade between the Dominican Republic
and Haiti estimated at over US$27m.-SANTO
DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The
Dominican Republic ambassador to
Haiti, José Serulle Ramia, has said
that annual trade between the two
countries sharing the Caribbean
island of Hispaniola totaled over US
27 million Full
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| U.S. Will Not
Send Troops In Haiti.-WASHINGTON,
July 1 -- The United States has
turned down a request from U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan for U.S.
troops in Haiti, the Miami Herald reported
Friday Full
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| Neighborly
Quarrels: The Dominican Republic versus
Haiti.These
expulsions are a part of a larger trend of
Dominican maltreatment of Haitian
residents of the DR, including the migrant
worker sector that constitutes a
substantial portion of the DR’s economy. |
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