Tuesday, March 13, 2012

HAITI'S PROPOSED ARMY

Date: 01-March-2012
From: News Center Publications
Subject: March Caribbean Memo-2012

Dear Friends:

Haiti is being threatened by former soldiers wanting to reestablish the kind of power and control over this Caribbean nation when former Presidents Francois [Papa Doc] Duvalier and his son, Jean Claude Duvalier, served as presidents for life or dictators.

That’s what is being reported in the country’s French-language newspaper, Le Matin.

Newly elected President Michel Martelly has called for the building of an Army to deal with the challenge. Haiti currently has a Haitian National Police but no army.

The conflict comes at a critical moment. This nation is still recovering from a Jan. 12, 2010 quake that left as many as 300,000 dead.

We write about this kind of thing for a reason, our interest in the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

NOT SURPRISING

Date: 01-Feb-12
From: News Center Publications
Subject: February Caribbean Memo-2012

Dear Friends:

It’s not surprising.

Once Henrique Capriles won a landslide win to be Venezuela’s Democratic Unity coalition's primary to run against President Hugo Chavez in October, government reaction was quick and expected.

One could conclude Chavez and his followers faced a serious challenge to the president’s chances for re-election.

In any kind of open society what Chavez and his followers said would be called unacceptable and over the top at the very least.

Here is why.

Chavez said: “I will pulverize him.”

Congressional leader and former Chavez military comrade Diosdado Cabello added: "We know he [Capriles] is the candidate of imperialism, of capitalism and the right wing."

They claim the 39-year-old state governor is both "bourgeois" and "fascist," a direct reference to Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Capriles is the grandson of Jews who survived the World War Two Holocaust in Poland.

And a senior Chavez aide released a cartoon showing Capriles in pink shorts with a Nazi Swastika on his arm.

We write about this kind of thing for a reason, our interest in the Caribbean and Latin America.

And we think we've done that with our five novels. They can be viewed on our WebSite. After starting at Yahoo.com, go to:http://www.natcarnes.com and click News Center Publications.

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The Editors

Saturday, January 14, 2012

AN UNFORTUNATE MIX

January CARIBBEAN MEMO 2012

Date: 01-Jan-12
From: News Center Publications
Subject: January Caribbean Memo-2012

Dear Friends:

Leaders of six Latin American countries have met with Iran’s leader, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, in the Caribbean and Central America.

After attending the inaugural ceremony of President Daniel Ortega, sworn in for the second time in Nicaragua, he traveled to Cuba, where he met with Fidel Castro.

Ahmadineyad talked with the other five at the Ortega ceremony.

They were the current and Guatemala’s President-elect, Alvaro Colom and Otto Perez Molina; President Maurico Funes of El Salvador; and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Politically, the meeting was a volatile mix of Latin America’s political left and the Middle East’s Islamic extremists.

It was Ahmadineyad’s area of the world that planned and carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in New York City against the United States.

We write about this kind of thing for a reason, our interest in the Caribbean and Latin America.

And we think we've done that with our five novels. They can be viewed on our WebSite. After starting at Yahoo.com, go to:http://www.natcarnes.com and click News Center Publications.

A Caribbean Memo collection can also be found on OUR BLOG:http://www.natcarnes.blogspot.com. Scroll down to `View My Complete Profile' and CLICK. We've also added a new section: The Religious Corner.

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The Editors

AN UNFORTUNATE MIX

January CARIBBEAN MEMO 2012

Date: 01-Jan-12
From: News Center Publications
Subject: January Caribbean Memo-2012

Dear Friends:

Leaders of six Latin American countries have met with Iran’s leader, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, in the Caribbean and Central America.

After attending the inaugural ceremony of President Daniel Ortega, sworn in for the second time in Nicaragua, he traveled to Cuba, where he met with Fidel Castro.
Ahmadineyad talked with the other five at the Ortega ceremony.

They were the current and Guatemala’s President-elect, Alvaro Colom and Otto Perez Molina; President Maurico Funes of El Salvador; and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Politically, the meeting was a volatile mix of Latin America’s political left and the Middle East’s Islamic extremists.

It was Ahmadineyad’s area of the world that planned and carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in New York City against the United States.

We write about this kind of thing for a reason, our interest in the Caribbean and Latin America.

And we think we've done that with our five novels. They can be viewed on our WebSite. After starting at Yahoo.com, go to:http://www.natcarnes.com and click News Center Publications.

A Caribbean Memo collection can also be found on OUR BLOG:http://www.natcarnes.blogspot.com. Scroll down to `View My Complete Profile' and CLICK. We've also added a new section: The Religious Corner.

With each purchase, let us know and we'll send free of charge an e-book version.

They can be read on any hand-held device with e-mail capability.
Remember, we are interested in your comments, pro and con. In other words, that's how we learn.
And please let us know if you want your name taken off the Caribbean Memo list.
The Editors