IPS: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 20 (IPS) – Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved …
Haiti Liberte:Cries of Foul As Elections Scheduled For February, 2010
Image by danny.hammontree via Flickr by Kim Ives Slowed by political wrangling and mysterious bureaucratic deliberations, Haiti’s elections have historically taken months and even years to organize. Suddenly, the electoral …
A Tale of Two Churches – One in Haiti, the other in New Orleans
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr By Wadner Pierre In 2006 two struggles were going on in two different Catholic churches and in two different countries. At Saint …
Haiti Liberte: Haitian PM Ousted Amid Murky Circumstances
Image via Wikipedia by Kim Ives Haiti’s Senate dismissed Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009 at half past midnight. The vote came after a raucous debate that …
A Tale of Two Churches – One in Haiti, the other in New Orleans
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr By Wadner Pierre In 2006 two struggles were going on in two different Catholic churches and in two different countries. At Saint …