From the Wayne Madsen Report, via VHeadline.com, April 6: In a replay of US naval maneuvers held during the time the Bush administration tried to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in an April 2002 abortive coup, the US Navy is… Read moreVenezuela: US Naval maneuvers encourage Zulia separatists?
At least 24 undocumented Haitians died as they were being smuggled into the Dominican Republic in a small truck near the northern city of Dajabon on Jan. 10. The victims died of asphyxiation while riding with about 45 other Haitians… Read moreHaiti: death stalks Dominican border
Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, the Brazilian head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), was found dead in his room at Port-au-Prince’s Montana Hotel on Jan. 7 after apparently shooting himself in the head, according… Read moreHaiti: UN mission head found dead
Following a meeting with representatives of Haitian political parties on Dec. 30, Max Mathurin, president of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), announced the postponement of the presidential and legislative elections previously scheduled for Jan. 8. “Following our work schedule, some… Read moreHaiti: vote postponed a fifth time
More than 1,000 people marched in the western Puerto Rican town of Hormigueros on Oct. 8 to protest the killing of nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios there on Sept. 23 by agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…. Read morePuerto Rico: march for Ojeda Rios
On Oct. 10 interim Haitian prime minister Gerard Latortue announced that the first round of this year’s presidential and legislative elections will be rescheduled from Nov. 20 to a date several weeks later, probably the second week of December. “We’ve… Read moreHaiti: elections rescheduled
US immigration judge William L. Abbott issued a written ruling on Sept. 26 in El Paso, TX, that the Convention Against Torture (CAT) bars the US from deporting Cuban-born right-winger Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela. Abbott accepted the contention by… Read moreJudge blocks Posada Carriles deportation
On Sept. 26 Puerto Rican governor Anibal Acevedo Vila told reporters that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Robert Mueller had ordered an inquiry into the fatal Sept. 23 shooting of nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios by FBI agents… Read morePuerto Rico: Machetero bled to death
Violence continues to escalate in Haiti, with the world paying very little note. In a grim irony, the latest massacreācarried out with the complicity of police forcesātook place at a football match organized to promote peace. UN “peacekeeping” forces are… Read moreNew massacre in Haiti; Dominican Republic steps up deportations
Escalating violence continues to make life unlivable in Haiti, with police forces and foreign “peacekeepers” contributing to the bloodshed–while those who flee to the neighboring Dominican Republic face racist attacks and mass deportations. From Weekly News Update on the Americas,… Read moreLynchings in Haiti; ethnic cleansing in Dominican Republic
At least 18 opponents of the Cuban government were detained in connection with four small protests on or near Havana’s waterfront on July 13. Several hundred government supporters, including construction workers on a job at the nearby Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital,… Read moreCuba: dissident protests attacked
The interim Haitian government released right-wing paramilitary leader Louis Jodel Chamblain from jail on Aug. 11. Chamblain, a leader in an armed rebellion that ended when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in February 2004, had been imprisoned since April 2004… Read moreHaiti: paramilitary leader released
