1. Police Death Squads in Honduras Then and Now
(Matching tags: wikileaks, Honduras, State Department, police)

... the 2002 internal affairs report.” A confidential 2003 State Department cable made available by Wikileaks reveals that State Department officials wanted Bonilla (then a fugitive) arrested at the time, ...

2. Spanish-language Media Jumps on Assange’s “Ecuador is Insignificant” Comment, Disregards Context
(Matching tags: media coverage, wikileaks, ecuador, assange)

CNN and much of the Spanish language press regaled in an apparent “aha!” moment last week when, in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange referred to Ecuador as an “insignificant ...

3. CEPR News August 2012
(Matching tags: wikileaks, jobs, housing, labor market, unions, Honduras, private equity, canada, ecuador, julian assange)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Good Jobs CEPR’s July report “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?” continued to receive media attention in ...

4. Newly Wikileaked Cables Provide Context to Anti-MINUSTAH Backlash in the Wake of Scandals
(Matching tags: un, minustah, wikileaks)

... Janet Sanderson, written in October 2008, and recently made available by Wikileaks, describes how the Haitian government questioned the Mission’s purpose years ago. Then-President René Préval appears to ...

5. U.S. Embassy: “Without a UN-sanctioned …force, we would be getting far less help …in managing Haiti.”
(Matching tags: un, minustah, wikileaks)

As a new child sex abuse scandal involving Uruguayan MINUSTAH troops unfolds (without coverage in the English language media), and new scientific studies emerge linking MINUSTAH to the origin of the current ...

6. "Brazil, MINUSTAH, Need a Timetable for Withdrawal" - Mark Weisbrot in Folha de Sao Paulo
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, aristide, minustah, disease, election, wikileaks)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot wrote in Folha de São Paulo, Brazil's largest circulation newspaper, yesterday: U.S. diplomatic cables now released from Wikileaks make it clearer than ever before ...

7. MINUSTAH Brought Cholera Into Haiti; Sought to Keep Aristide Out
(Matching tags: rainy season, aristide, minustah, disease, wikileaks)

Revelations about MINUSTAH are in the news again. First, a new study published in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal affirms that a MINUSTAH camp was the origin of the cholera ...

8. Wikileaked Cable Describes How State Department Influenced Aljazeera's Post-Quake Coverage of Relief Effort
(Matching tags: aid distribution, minustah, wikileaks)

... all embassies to “push back” against “inaccurate and unfavorable international media coverage of America's role and intentions in Haiti.” A newly released cable, made available through Wikileaks’ partnership ...

9. LIVE BLOG: Aristide Returns to Haiti
(Matching tags: aristide, elections, oas, wikileaks)

As has been widely reported, former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is now back in Haiti, ending his seven year exile in South Africa. We'll be updating this space throughout the evening and ...

10. Is MINUSTAH’s Time Almost Up?
(Matching tags: un, minustah, election, wikileaks)

From the website of a State Representative for the (ruling) Workers’ Party in Brazil, a flier promotes a rally for “the withdrawal of troops from Haiti”. The March 28 event will feature speakers from, ...