US Security Firm Caught Training Mexican Police in Torture Techniques Is Working in the Caribbean A National Policeman tears apart a tarp shelter in the city of Delmas with a dagger.  By Ansel Herz Special to the Narco News BulletinMay 29, 2011 Security forces who are tearing down makeshift [...]

Written by Beverly Bell Friday, 27 May 2011 10:59 Result of effort to “clean” public space. Photo by Ben Depp On May 23 and 25, police in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince destroyed camps where people homeless since the January 2010 earthquake have taken up shelter. During the raids, [...]

Haitian Mayor’s Office of Wilson Jeudy Launches Violent Campaign to Destroy Refugee Camps Posted on May 26, 2011 Looks like Delmas mayor, Wilson Jeudy, got tired of earthquake survivors occupying precious space and asked the Haitian National Police for help in clearing the area. During the 2004 [...]

The Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) continue to express their outrage at the cavalier manner in which the prosecution of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is being conducted, and their concern over the investigating judge’s [...]

U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs Courtesy Story  LES CAYES, Haiti - U.S. Southern Command broke ground, May 9, in Les Cayes, Haiti to mark the beginning of construction of 58 projects that are part of the SOUTHCOM Humanitarian Assistance Program. [...]

  Funeral of Samuel Georges, 18-year-old who died eight hours after contracting cholera. Cholera is on the rise in Haiti. Photo: Ben Depp, www.bendepp.com  Saturday 7 May 2011 by: Beverly Bell, Other Worlds  We may soon [...]

The death toll from Haiti's cholera epidemic has risen to at least 4,030 more than three months after the disease broke out in the country's Artibonite Valley, the health ministry said. The number of cholera cases in Haiti totalled 209,034 as of January 24, the ministry said. The severity of the [...]

Brandon Jourdon reporting on G20 in Queenspark Independent journalist Brandon Jourdan recently returned from Haiti after being on assignment documenting the rebuilding of schools in the earthquake-devastated country. However, when he returned to the United States, he was immediately detained after [...]

It is unclear why former U.S. congressman Bob Barr would be interested in assisting a monstrous individual like Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier but, his actions certainly warrant an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Oh,  "former" CIA - that might answer it. Duvalier Advised by [...]

An elderly cholera victim is transferred from Villard to Saint-Marc, the epicentre of Haiti's cholera outbreak where thousands have been treated. (Toronto Star) - By Jennifer Wells DROUIN -At 6:15 on a weekday morning Lovely Avelus is not yet in her cherry red school attire, but rather the pale [...]

PRESS RELEASE January 18, 2011 Contact: Sean Bartlett For Immediate Release Phone: (202) 225-2201 Congresswoman Waters Opposes Plot to Control Haiti Urges Prosecution of Duvalier for Human Rights Violations and New Elections that Respect the Will of the Haitian People Washington - Congresswoman [...]