Quick Justice/No Justice
Within four days, two very different acts of violence erupted in Haiti this last week. Will real justice be meted out in either case? Doubtful…
Here’s my 2020 take on Kamala Harris, from Town & Country
Kamala Harris Is the Latest Product of San Francisco’s Long-Running Political Machine The secret sauce of the city’s political success? A mix of big money, high society, and socially progressive ideas. Within a week of each other this past August, two...
Haiti’s Hour of Deliverance or Despair
This past week, CARICOM, the Caribbean trade group, announced a new “consensus” plan to deliver Haiti from the hands of roving gangs and paramilitary groups and into the tender care of democracy and free and fair elections. In part because of escalating gang violence...
In Gaza They Don’t Even Bother to Call It Peace
I was having sushi on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, sitting outdoors. All day long I’d been reading about the Hamas attacks in Israel and the Israeli bombings in Gaza. Now, sushi. What a disconnect. At the table next to ours was a young family we didn’t know....The American Rules for a Haitian President (or de facto Prime Minister)
Here are the rules from the US Embassy for being president of Haiti, or just de facto Prime Minister (maybe you’d like the job?): Don’t interfere with Haitian business people who are old friends of the American Embassy, no matter what corruption they’re into: customs,...
Again
Oh, mesi, Bon Dye, one can imagine Ariel Henry, the interim Prime Minister of Haiti, saying this morning—Thank you, Lord—not because he likes earthquakes or doesn’t care about the people of his country but because a 7.2 earthquake just off shore with hundreds of buildings down and more than 700 counted dead so far, and roads impassable and a tropical storm on the way to create mudslides and more destruction and death is easier to deal with than the investigation of the July 7th assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
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