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...witnessing the coup d'?tat machine in motion." Yvon Neptune, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to quell an uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
Metayer's cohort, then called the Cannibal Army, was once said to lend its grim services to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Today it makes up the most violent component of a growing opposition that threatens to destabilize Haiti. Now dubbed the Artibonite Resistance Front, the group took control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city, a week ago by attacking the main police station. All that remains of it and the adjacent prison is a few concrete walls...
...abandoning its unconventional weapons program. Road to Peace Mapped KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed to a staggered timetable for peace talks to begin after Indian elections due to be held in April, and to include negotiations over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. A Last Attempt? HAITI President Jean-Bertrand Aristide accepted an international peace plan aimed at ending the violence that has seen armed rebels take control of a large swath of the north of the country. However, neither the political opposition nor the rebels immediately endorsed the proposal, which would see Aristide remaining in office with reduced powers...
...made their way to U.S. shores to escape violence and repression in Haiti, and their initial incarceration at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay was an election issue in the Sunshine State in 1992. It was the flow of refugees following the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 that eventually prompted the Clinton administration in 1994 to send in the troops...
...Arthus-Bertrand has been spreading his message in a series of best-selling Earth from Above photo books and a traveling outdoor show of nearly 150 4-ft. by 6-ft. prints accompanied by captions that link the images to the environmental issues at stake. Since the show was first mounted in Paris four years ago, it has been seen by millions of people in 53 cities. To find a project of comparable ambition, you have to look back to "The Family of Man," the milestone 1955 museum show that toured the world to illustrate common threads in the human...