Chanting “This has to change,” some 200 Haitians marked World Day for Decent Work with a march to the industrial park where most of Port-au-Prince’s low-wage assembly plants are located.
Haitian President Michel Martelly’s latest choice for prime minister has been an assistant to former US president Bill Clinton, who is already being referred to in political circles as the de facto “governor of Haiti.”
Three Port-au-Prince apparel factories fired a total of six members of a new local of the Textile and Garment Workers Union (SOTA) little more than a week after the union announced its formation.
Haitian president Michel Martelly announced the formation of an advisory council for economic development that will “remove the brakes” on foreign investment—and ensure a continued role for Bill Clinton as de facto “governor” of Haiti.
The US Justice Department announced its findings from a three-year investigation that the Puerto Rico Police Department has engaged in repeated unlawful behavior, including unconstitutional arrests and failure to protect First Amendment rights.
A former member of the Macheteros Puerto Rican rebel group charges that US agents planted an electronic device in his car. The Macheteros meanwhile disavowed a letter sent in their name with a supposed chemical substance to Puerto Rico’s capitol building.
Some of the 1,100 Uruguayan troops in the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) may face repatriation following release of a video that appears to show the sexual abuse of a Haitian youth at a military base.
Residents of Kington’s poor district of Tivoli Gardens reacted with shock and disbelief to the news that extradited kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke arranged a plea bargain at US District Court in Manhattan—after the manhunt for him cost scores of lives.
A comparison of the whole genomes of cholera bacteria found in Haiti and in Nepal proves nearly conclusively that Nepalese UN “peacekeepers” were the inadvertent cause of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 Haitians.
As protests continue in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital’s mayor reportedly plans to relocate 20,000 earthquake survivors to a small mountain in a dry, sparsely populated area about 25 miles from the city.
The supreme court of Cuba upheld a 15-year sentence for Alan Gross, a US citizen, accused of using his contract work to establish Internet access for Havana’s Jewish community as a cover to foment social-network protests.
Activity in the US Congress reflects growing environmentalist opposition to a $450 million pipeline which would carry imported natural gas from the southwest coast to a place near San Juan on the north coast.
