Cuba Pro-Democracy Programs: Leave it to the CIA?
Capitol Hill critics say U.S. AID ill-suited for the job.
Capitol Hill critics say U.S. AID ill-suited for the job.
U.S.-backed democracy programs in Cuba are improved and operating, advocates say, despite delays and setbacks.
The relatively smooth course of the March 20th presidential election in Haiti has brought cautious optimism about the prospects for political stability in the country.
The visual poem Ganthier in Kreyol.
Ganthier
Pou Joel Sainton. The visual poem Job in Kreyol.
When a brave woman’s out walking
she’s Mistress Life’s spitting image
(Michel-Ange Hyppolite)
His voice is licked
but his dreams
are the artillery of words loaded
to uncoil our strength.
(Michel-Ange Hyppolite)
Ti Gason An Ble
Alleged terrorist Noor Uthman Muhammed is sentenced to 14 years. But he will be released after 34 months if he provides testimony that can be used for future commissions and trials.
On the first day of his military commission trial in Guantanamo Bay, alleged al Qaeda terrorist Noor Uthman Muhammed pleads guilty to avoid life imprisonment.
Slow-to-move rubble, an obstacle to rebuilding after Haiti's earthquake, exacerbates violence and disease in makeshift neighborhoods.
Tackling the challenges of working in a tent city, music teacher Alzire Roucourt offers hope and education to the Haitian students in her class.
Since the earthquake, many young girls in Haiti have turned to prostitution in order to get by. They resort to having sex for food or small amounts of money. This exchange is unwanted but, in their view, the only way to survive.