The politics of drugs in Haiti
HIP - The US Drug Enforcement Agency’s recent attempt to hunt down former policeman, paramilitary commander and presidential candidate Guy Philippe on drug charges can be traced back to a recent arrest in the town of Gonaives, Haiti.
Haitian police and Argentinean units of the UN arrested Wilfort Ferdinand, alias Ti Wil; on May 26 after he gave a lengthy interview on local radio station Radio Gonaives FM. Although news of Ferdinand's arrest received scant attention in the international press it was one of the top stories throughout Haiti the following day. Much of the reporting in the Haitian press focused on the shared history of Wilfort Ferdinand and Guy Philippe in leading paramilitary forces that helped to oust the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Ottawa Citizen
May 18, 2007 Friday
NEWS; Dan Gardner; Pg. A15
The Colombia experiment; If the Americans are teaching Afghans the tricks of the trade based on what has 'worked' in South American drug wars, look out
Dan Gardner

On Wednesday, a feature story in the New York Times began with an unusual scene. In a compound outside Kabul, a group of raw Afghan recruits was being instructed in the basics of enforcing drug laws. "It's Narcotics 101," one of the instructors, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, told the reporter. "We are at a stage now of telling these recruits, 'this is a handgun, this is a bullet.' "

Haiti: U.S. Subcommittee passes bill to recruit and deploy U.S. citizens in support of Dictatorship
By Jeb Sprague, The Narcosphere

Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2005 at 10:06:06 PM EST
Washington, D.C.- Instead of U.S. taxpayer’s money going to NGOs such as the Catholic Relief Organization, CARE, or Oxfam, $6 million in U.S. economic aid may soon be going straight to the bank accounts of a dictatorship, mired in corruption and massive human rights abuses, for the recruitment and deployment of American citizens.

Bush administration 'broke its own embargo to sell arms to Haiti police'
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
The Independent 17 April 2005
The Bush administration has been accused of ignoring its own arms embargo and overseeing the sale of $7m-worth (£3.7m) of weapons to the Haitian government to equip its police force.

Former officials describe systemic weaknesses in Haiti as elections approach

WASHINGTON Former U-S officials say Haiti's transitional government "is weaker than anyone had expected" -- and needs U-S help.
Haiti's government is preparing for national elections in October and November.

by Claude Ribbe (translated from French original by "Rebecca," see below...)

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Precisions on the attack of the prison of Port au Prince of the 19 February,
2005 and of the make believe "evasion" of Mr. Neptune and Privert.

After the attack in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, February 19, 2005, from
sources close to the persons concerned confirm, under the cover of
anonymity, that the attack was perpetuated by members of the Haitian Police
at the request of Narco-trafficking who wanted to liberate their
accomplices, as often happens in Haiti.

Last Tuesday the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami Law School issued a groundbreaking human rights report, based on wide-ranging interviews with businessmen, grassroots leaders, gang members, victims of human rights violations, lawyers, human rights groups and police and officials from the UN and the Haitian and U.S. governments, and observations in poor neighborhoods, police stations, prisons, hospitals and the state morgue. The report examines the violence committed against Haiti's poor majority, and shows how institutions that should protect the poor- the police, the government, the UN, the public health system- are actually contributing to the violence.