Allison Lefrak is a Washington lawyer who represents the last of the Russian detainees, Ravil Mingazov, 43, in the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Her client’s habeas corpus hearing is in two weeks and Lefrak was on the phone with him last week when he told her that inmates in his block – Camp 4, the [...]
For much of my first week in Haiti I traveled with Life Magazine photographer Keith Marlowe. We met through TIME/Life folks in Miami and probably somewhat foolhardily drove nine hours from Santo Domingo into the unknown that was Port-au-Prince less than 72-hours after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. He has today a gallery up of his [...]
It seemed ominous to me, crossing the border yesterday between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, that the last town in Haiti was called Malpasse — bad crossing. For many Haitians these days it has, indeed, been a terrible crossing — as I explore in this time.com story. Since making the drive nearly two weeks ago, [...]
The U.N. office in Haiti just sent out a note from Haitian President Rene Preval. The message is simple. With out any preamble it lists Haiti’s most urgent needs: 200,000 family tents to be given priority clearance at the airport so that the shelters can be in place before the rainy season starts in just [...]
I went to a food and water distribution today for 50,000 in Cite Soleil, Haiti’s poorest and most infamous neighborhood. For all that the United Nations and the U.S. are always claiming how safe the neighborhood has become in recent years, they brought an eye-popping number of heavily armed soldiers along. Better to be safe [...]
Greetings from Port-au-Prince. This is the first time since arriving I’ve had enough internet access to be able to blog — though I’ve found twittering in bursts has been doable. Here, here and here are the three stories I’ve filed thus far with more to come — seems I’m going to stick around Haiti a [...]
