This entry concerns events in Haiti and Colombia, NATO and the United Nations. First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Popular Resistance, links to an account by a writer for a Venezuelan news outlet in opposition to a U.S.-supported effort for UN intervention in Haiti, that of another writer who opposes possible NATO involvement in the Amazon, and the earlier report in Spanish on the subject of NATO in the Amazon. — MCM
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Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis, by Evens Sanon | AP Dozens of Haitians have died from cholera during a rapidly spreading outbreak that is straining the resources of nonprofits and local hospitals in a country where fuel, water and other basic supplies are growing scarcer by the day. Across Haiti, many patients are dying because say they’re unable to reach a hospital in time, health officials say. A spike in gang violence has made it unsafe for . . . READ MORE . . .
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As U.N. mulls sending troops to Haiti, a gang’s rise shows how hard that would be, by Brian Ellsworth | Reuters — As Haiti’s gang-induced humanitarian crisis deepened in October, a group of looters ransacked a supermarket in a well-to-do suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince, leading police to arrest over a dozen people and take them to a nearby police station. Within hours, the station in the area known as Thomassin came under a hail of bullets from gang members. They overpowered officers and released the looters as well as others who . . . READ MORE . . .
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Some 19,000 people in Haiti are facing catastrophic levels of hunger. Reported by Leila Fadel and Eyder Peralta | NPR Haiti is now in the sixth week of a fuel blockade by armed gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince. It means that escalating hunger, along with a cholera crisis, is getting more dire by the day. Click HERE to listen and read.
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Haiti’s long and complicated history of international intervention. Rachel Martin of NPR talks with historian Robert Fatton about ill-fated interventions in Haiti, which is now embroiled in a crisis that has the country on the brink of collapse. Click HERE to listen and read.
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U.S. tries to bend UN charter to bless illegal, unwanted invasion of Haiti, by Kim Ives | Orinoco Tribune The gloves came off at the United Nations Security Council on Oct. 17 in one of the best bare-knuckle since the dawn of the new multipolar world on Feb. 24. The subject was Haiti. To justify its fourth major military intervention into Haiti in a century, Washington is trying to deputize one nation or group of nations to intervene on its behalf. Sources say that the candidates for the honor . . . READ MORE . . .
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NATO in the Amazon: Petro plays with fire, by Roger D. Harris | Popular Resistance Earlier this month, Colombian President Gustavo Petro invited US and NATO military forces into the Amazon on the pretext that the imperial war machine could be repurposed as “police” aimed at protecting the environment instead of the old ruse of the war on drugs. He proposed deployment of U.S. Black Hawk helicopters to put out fires. Previous to the environmental alibi, the pretext for militarization of the jungle was narcotics . . . READ MORE . . .
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Petro y la Amazonía, por E. Jiménez | La Esperanza La semana pasada el actual presidente Gustavo Petro levantó polémica con sus declaraciones sobre la Amazonía. Entre otras cosas, afirmó que desea que la Amazonía sea custodiada por los Estados Unidos y la OTAN. Este hecho, aunque no debería sorprender a nadie que haya realizado un estudio serio sobre los nexos del actual presidente, es de interés porque . . . LEA MÁS . . .