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http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21726
15 April 2007
Second journalist in three months murdered
Reporters Without Borders expressed shock today at the “brutal murder” of the correspondent of the weekly paper Haïti Progrès, Johnson Edouard, in the northwestern city of Gonaïves on 12 April.
“He may have been killed because of his work, the press freedom organisation said, noting that “Haiti is still one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the Americas.” Edouard was also a local official of the Fanmi Lavalas party.
Gunmen broke into his home while he was sleeping and shot him in the head and chest before escaping through a window. A party official said he had been “executed” and claimed it was “not an isolated crime.”
Freelance photographer Jean-Rémy Badiau was shot dead at his home in Martissant, a southern suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on 19 January after taking pictures of gang members.
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388333,00.html
Venezuela’s Chavez backs Iran in nuclear dispute
Published: 04.16.07, 00:05 / Israel News
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended Iran’s “legitimate right” to develop nuclear power for peaceful energy uses, warning the US not to attack Iran. “We demand that the North American empire respect the Iranian people and the peoples of the world,” said Chavez Sunday on his program “Hello President.”
“The only country that has developed atomic bombs and dropped them on entire peoples is the North American empire... They don’t have the morality to be giving anybody lessons,” he said. A military attack on Iran “would be madness,” Chavez added. “The consequences would be terrible.” (AP)
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266061,00.html
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“Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Calls Reconciliation With the U.S. ‘Impossible’”
Saturday, April 14, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Chavez also said that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were “a gift for (President) Bush” because they enabled him to wage war.”