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Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

Kevin Pina

Kevin Pina is an independent journalist, filmmaker and currently resides in Haiti.

6 pieces

Commentary

The Unspoken Truth About Gangs in Haiti

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

Recent military operations by the United Nations in Cite Soleil expose an underlying strategy based on a set of false assumptions set in motion by Bush administration policy makers through the U.S. Embassy in Haiti. The argument for this strategy goes like this: 1. Aristide cultivated and armed networks of gangs to harass his opposition…

Recent military operations by the United Nations in Cite Soleil expose an underlying strategy based on a set of false assumptions set in motion by Bush…

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Commentary

Open Letter to Human Rights Watch: Stop Dismissing Victims of Haitian Police

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

TO: Human Rights Watch RE: Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Renewal of the Mandate of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) DATE: May 17, 2005 Dear HRW, In your recent letter to the U.N. Security Council dated May 16, 2005 you stated, “During a recent mission to Haiti, Human Rights Watch…

TO: Human Rights Watch RE: Letter to the U.N. Security Council on the Renewal of the Mandate of the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) DATE:…

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Commentary

The Tragedy of Haiti: Victims of the Storms

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

When Tropical Storm Jeanne hit Gonaives, the police literally ran away from the city, leaving behind a horrific human crisis. As Kevin Pina reports, the U.S.-installed Haitian regime is hardly a government at all – just a gangster clique incapable of carrying out the most basic civic services. A political storm hit northern Haiti long…

When Tropical Storm Jeanne hit Gonaives, the police literally ran away from the city, leaving behind a horrific human crisis. As Kevin Pina reports, the U.S.-installed…

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Commentary

The Untold Story of Aristide’s Departure from Haiti

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

All is well for me here. I have taken well to my duties in Haiti but I still can’t believe how they let the niggers have the run of the place.” Haitians running Haiti? Now let’s fast forward to last December 31, 2003 as Luigi Einaudi of the Organization of American States (OAS) is ushered…

All is well for me here. I have taken well to my duties in Haiti but I still can’t believe how they let the niggers have…

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Commentary

US-Backed Haiti Opposition Emboldened

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

Haitian Opposition and Corporate Media Press for Regime Change in Haiti In Haiti, as in Venezuela, corporate media act as public relations agents for a political opposition nurtured by the U.S. government. Truth is shamelessly obscured by relentless quotes from opposition figures pursuing American goals of “regime change,” a euphemism for the overthrow of popularly…

Haitian Opposition and Corporate Media Press for Regime Change in Haiti In Haiti, as in Venezuela, corporate media act as public relations agents for a political…

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Guest Commentary

Is the US Funding Haitian “Contras”?

By Kevin Pina Correspondent in Port-au-Prince

Several grassroots political activists from Haiti’s Lavalas movement recently sat in a small room watching television on the first day of the Bush administration’s war against Iraq. For about half an hour they shifted between Canada’s RDI and France’s RFI Caribbean broadcasts in French. The room suddenly broke into excited chatter as images of thousands…

Several grassroots political activists from Haiti's Lavalas movement recently sat in a small room watching television on the first day of the Bush administration's war against…

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