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PMP is committed to burn the seeds from Monsanto, and asked March to protest against the presence of companies in Haiti, 04 June, World Environment Day. . A new earthquake is that the peasant leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste papaya farmer Movement (MPP) has asked the news that Monsanto will donate 60,000 bags of seeds (475 tons) of maize hybrid seeds and vegetable seeds, some of these treaties toxic pesticides.

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Without citing specifics, the lawyer for 10 American missionaries who apparently tried to take children out of Haiti illegally has abruptly quit, according to CNN International. It wasn’t known who would replace Edwin Coq, the Haitian lawyer hired to represent the American missionaries, who have been charging with kidnapping in the case. Coq said Laura Silsby, the leader of the American missionary group who took the children, fully knew “she didn’t have any legal documents that would allow her to do so,” CNN quoted him as saying. The American missionaries were attempting to take the children across the border into the Dominican Republic, even though Silsby was warned by Dominican officials not to bring the children into the country without documents. Continue reading “Lawyer for American missionaries abruptly quits Haitian kidnapping case” »

Amid complaints of U.S. interference in relief efforts to Haiti and a large tremor in Guatemala, the European Union has pledged approximately $200 million in disaster assistance to help Haiti quake victims. Meeting Jan. 18, European ministers in Brussels said they were making $197 million immediately available for disaster assistance to the the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The ministers also said they were contemplating $300 in longer-term assistance. Meanwhile, the United States, acting largely in the absence of any official Haitian government, is being accused of taking a dominant role in relief efforts at the exclusion of other nations. A French plane containing a field hospital, was reportedly turned away from the Haitian airport by U.S. military, according to the Washington Post. The plane was allowed to land the following day. The Post quoted French Cooperation Minister Bernard Koucher that, “This is about helping Haiti, not occupying Haiti.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said the U.S. is not interested in taking power from Haiti. In Guatemala, no damage or injuries were immediately reported after a 6.0 quake hit 60 miles southeast of Guatemala City. Continue reading “Is U.S. interfering in Haitian relief efforts? EU adds to aid guarantee” »