Haiti: An Italian journalist killed in Haiti

A sports journalist of Italian Francesco Fantoli, passed away Sunday after he was hit yesterday by a bullet to the chest. The journalist and businessman had completed a transaction in a bank's capital when he was attacked.

Dnase a statement issued Monday, the Government of the Republic - through its Minister of Culture and Communication, Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue - condemned this crime.

Mrs. Lassègue also said that Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has asked the Justice Minister, Paul Denis, to instruct the competent judicial authorities so that they engage appropriate legal action against bandits. Marie Laurence J. Lassegue sent condolences to the government for victims' families and close associates of the murdered journalist.

SOS Journalists also condemned the murder of the journalist, calling the judicial authorities to initiate an immediate investigation to identify, arrest, try and convict the guilty according to law.

In a statement, the secretary general of SOS Journalists, Guyler C. Delva, deplored the upsurge of insecurity that continues to claim victims in society.

"Judicial authorities and police must redouble efforts to save the bandits who resurface out of harm's way", said Mr. Delva saying that impunity is one of the main sources of the insecurity.

The Convention for cultural diversity and the empowerment of minority cultures * (continued)

Consider an example. Today considered a non-advanced countries in the periphery of the global village, the company has entered Haiti from the beginning of its history, a cultural trajectory, the result of global economic relations since the days of slavery to that of neoliberalism. This gives both its common features with other companies in the continent and its profound originality (Pierre-Charles cit. Houtard in Remy and, id. 13). The cultural configuration of Haiti stems from the encounter of several currents of Amerindian civilizations, African, European, who competed in the New World during the slave stage of the global capitalist economy. Indeed, culture and Haitian society, from their period of gestation, were marked by globalization, the result of the hegemonic thrust of Europe from the late fifteenth century ... (ibid. 19). But "is still working through the Haitian intellectual production, such as through social and political practices, a system of thought organized around the old couple barbarian / civilized while all the elite of Haiti, from the earliest moments of the independence, is eager to provide proof of non-barbarism of the Haitian people, and somehow continue to desperately search for a cure of the barbarism that the master colon imputed ... " (Hurbon 1987:14-15). The Creole language created by the majority slave from Africa to colonial Haiti, and Haiti's diverse cultural expressions (such as the rara, the lodyans, etc..) Are perceived as unable to be broadcast in national and international media in favor of foreign cultural expressions unrelated to the Haitian cultural identity. When it uses it for use point of view of folk, that is to say unrelated to their materiality historical, economic and political.

Thus, instead of asserting their identity and culture in globalization, elites producing cultural works in developing countries coincide with the Haitian elite, by adopting the same attitude. They seek rather to respect the canons and criteria prevailing in world trade, excluding contempt or even elements of cultural identity and traditional minority groups, they often regard as "unworthy" of globalization standards. Often, they become very hostile to any kind of cultural resistance on the part of holders of minority cultures.

Respect of human communication as a spearhead

Taking again the example of Haiti, the Belgian sociologist Francois Houtart and Haitian anthropologist Anselme Remy recall that during the eighteenth century cultural identity was an element of resistance to the imposition of dramatically unequal social relations. Indeed, as shown by these authors, local so-called minority cultures contain within themselves the potential of their emancipation. The Convention on Cultural Diversity merely offer a universal legal framework favorable. So the big clash between culture and globalized world of representations and values socially constructed according to the collective experiences of peoples is not a foregone conclusion. Those who proclaim the advent of a single global civilization, driven by market values and serving the summit of human history are likely to see their predictions turn into illusions ... The globalization of culture is under the hegemony of the market and local culture are the basis for many forms of resistance ... (Houtard and Remy: 173). Hence the invitation to civil society organizations, national and international creativity and aggressiveness to win the battle for cultural diversity for social groups, peoples and minority cultures. Battle with the promotion of human communication for the democratization of communication is the spearhead. For, according Wolton, culture and communication are the real challenges of the twenty-first century, the globalization of communication raises once and for all the question of otherness and being a political issue, it should be treated politically. Indeed, "communication and politics, the issue is the same: to organize the coexistence ... In summary, initially, we must admit the importance of cultural identity. In a second time, we must recognize that cultural diversity is unsurpassable. In a third step is to organize cultural coexistence which is the complement of political democracy "(Wolton: 96). * Published in the journal Media Development, February 2006 http://www.waccglobal.org/fr/20061-celebrating-cultural-diversity/566-La-Convention-pour-la-diversité-culturelle-et-l 'emancipation-of-cultures-minoritaires.html. Media Development is a biannual publication of WACC (World Association for Christian Communication): www.waccglobal.org (1) See UNESCO website: www.unesco.org Bibliography: - Boron Artilio, NEOLIBERALISMO, globalizacion y desigualdad en America Latina, in Tiempos Violentos, CLACSO-EUDEBA-Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999; - Nestor Garcia Canclini, La globalización in pedazos: integración y la comunicación breaks in, in DIALOGOS de la Comunicación-FELAFACS, May 1998 - Jean Casimir, culture oppressed, Port-au-Prince, Imp. Lakay, 2001; - Houtard Francis and Anselme Remy, Haiti and the globalization of culture, CRESFED, L'Harmattan, Port-au-Prince, Paris, Montreal, 2000; - François Houtart, Samir Amin, Ignacio Ramonet, in state of resistance in the world, ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec. 05-January 2005; - Lagree Jean-Charles, Cultural Production and Social Movements in the popular culture, s / n. - Armand Mattelart, Diversity and Globalization, La Découverte, Paris, 2005; - Armand Mattelart, in the revolution in communication, ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, July-August 1999; - Ignacio Ramonet, Thinking in the twenty-first century ways of seeing-Le Monde Diplomatique, July-August 2000 - UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity, 2005 - UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2001 - Dominique Wolton, TV and civilizations, Labor, Brussels, 2004 Ary Regis Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of WACC-Caribbean, Professor of Social Communication at the Faculty of Humanities (FASCH) of the State University of Haiti, a member of SAKS (Animation Society in Social Communication)

Haiti news: The Dominicans will lose monopoly

The reign of networks of racketeers, smugglers and traffickers seem to expire at the border point of Belladère. A modern administrative complex built in the area by Pan American and developement Foundation (PADF) will allow the Haitian government to settle.

Haitians and Dominicans who are still their butter at the border point of Belladère have to worry. In the near future, they will have to make way for the Haitian State. The Immigration Service, one of the Customs, the National Police of Haiti, the National Office of Migration and the BRH will occupy the various pavilions that make up the administrative complex built on the territory of Haiti at the border Belladère / Elias Pinas. "The administrative complex will allow the Haitian State to mark its presence at the border," says Cyriac Ducarmel, former mayor of Belladère.

The joy of Mr. Ducarmel is shared by much of the population. Traders and other users of the border point Belladère / Elias Pinas, one of the most important line of Haitian-Dominican border, see this project in the end the monopoly of the Dominicans on the business of the region. "Since the political turmoil of recent years, Dominicans do not come over to Belladère supplies, reported a native of the area. Haitians are thus forced to cross the border to sell and buy at Elias Pinas. "A godsend for Dominicans who have to pay even a peso fee as Haiti. Yet Haitians pay taxes for everything they buy or sell in the Dominican Republic. Read more

Haiti news: Oasis accoste le quai de Labadie

The "Oasis of the Seas" was anchored to the new dock Labadie, this Thursday, December 3, 2009. Haitian officials satisfied with the benefits of partnership with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) through the Company Labadie Nord (Solano) are large: the development of tourism in the north. Back on a day-discovery.



"Elsie, the greenery is intact, the road less tortuous. I see goats grazing and peacekeepers on duty, described, Live, Marcus Garcia at his accomplice Radio Melody with the ardor of young journalists eager to scoop the original angle, the important detail that another rate , Thursday, December 3, 2009, just minutes from the bay of Labadie when wet, for the first time since its commissioning, the largest, finest, most luxurious cruise ship in the world, the "Oasis of the seas. As the unexpected eruption of Vesuvius, laughter erupts in the bus carrying senior journalists, amused by the spontaneous association funny goat and blue helmet while the new flagship of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL) stands before the illuminated wonder Marcus, a star of radio from its beginnings in the seventies at Radio Haiti Inter.

On the site where rushes a bit annoyed the bus driver who missed a first entry, hundreds of cruise passengers, some pink skin, tanned, discover the craft market, a little before ten o'clock in the morning. A few steps away, a brass band and majorettes make the solemn moment and thwart the sound tests conducted on the platform of a small amphitheater to host the first part of the ceremony. Azor, sparkling in a white robe, talks with Ti Corn, fresh, everlasting, sunny voice. Read more

Haiti:''They want to unify the island of Haiti''

Haiti press news: Governments of countries called "Friends of Haiti" - the France, the United States and Canada - have plans to unify Haiti and the Dominican Republic, what is said last Sunday, the number 2 ruling party in the Dominican Republic, Euclides Gutierrez. A statement he made in the presence of a French official. Diplomatic missions in Port-au-Prince states concerned have kept a low profile.

"La France, the United States and Canada have plans to unify the island of Haiti, a project they concoct for several decades," he said confidently last Sunday Euclides Gutierrez, the most influential figure in the ruling party in neighboring republic, after President Leonel Fernandez, reported on its website (www.dominicantoday.com) a Dominican newspaper.

The Dominican official made the statement after a meeting with French Minister for Cooperation and Francophony, Alain Joyandet. The latter, which would respond directly on the subject, called a "joke joke and smile that makes" the words of his interlocutor Dominican.

A former draft updated?

"It's a project for which the leaders of the three powers concerned have worked for decades," he said. This is a project of great powers, including France, Canada and the United States, to seek a solution to Haiti in the eastern part of the island of Haiti, for his part said the journalist . Read full story