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Filmmaker Michele Mitchell, producer and director of the 2012 documentary film 'Haiti: Where Did The Money Go?' is interviewed for five minutes on CBC San Francisco on April 6, prior to the screening of the 55 minute film at the Oakland Film Festival. Watch the interview here. To learn more about the film, including how to purchase the DVD ($20), go the the website of the film's producers, Film At 11.

On KPFA's Flashpoints Radiop program on March 15, 2012, Kevin Pina interviews Ira Kurzban, former General Counsel for the Haitian government, and Burt Wides, an expert on U.S. intelligence about the ongoing campaign to smear Aristide. Wides was chief of investigations for the famous Church Committee that uncovered numerous scandals during the 1970s.

Listen to or download the episode here: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/78755

Haiti needs stability to remove threat from ex-soldiers, says UN

In the following article, we learn from the head of MINUSTAH, Mariano Fernandez, that Haitians must quickly accept the nomination of Laurent Lamothe as prime minister or else the paramilitaires that have been parading around Haiti for months under the noses of MINUSTAH and the Haitian National Police will become vengeful and violent. We also learn from the article author that the mandate of MINUSTAH is "expected to be approved" by the Security Council and Haitian government when it comes up for annual renewal ... in eight months! See below for a report of a presentation by Mariano Fernandez in Washington DC on March 9, 2012.--Website editors