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From the Alliance for Global Justice: The Solidarity Center office in Bogotá has received an unusually large two-year grant of $3 million for its operations in the Andean Region. The scope and dimensions of the grant are not fully known, nor the exact programs to which it will be applied. However, given the history [...]  From the Alliance for Global Justice: The Solidarity Center has some good and helpful programs and some that are at least more or less benign. But these good programs can act to hide a more fundamental purpose to infiltrate and influence the labor movements of other countries and to provide a channel of interference in [...] US President John Kennedy Established USAID – the United States Agency for International Development – in November, 1962 as an organization charged with an essentially humanitarian mission of providing economic and other support to struggling countries around the world. The agency’s stated goals therefore include conflict prevention, the expansion of democracy, humanitarian assistance, and human [...] Having been heavily involved in the relief effort since the earthquake struck Haiti, the CMA CGM Group has announced that it has resumed a regular service between Port-au-Prince and Kingston in Jamaica. On February 7th, a 516 teu capacity CMA CGM feeder vessel made an exceptional call to Port-au-Prince as an extension of its Europe-Caribbean [...] The Port-au-Prince dock was submerged, and its only crane damaged, by the January 12 earthquake. Re-opening Haiti’s seaport in the capital Port-au-Prince is seen as vital to the international aid effort. Fifty percent of the port was destroyed by the earthquake, but engineers have decided some parts of one pier are strong enough to handle [...] Haiti’s main port has “collapsed and is not operational,” says a Maersk Line representative. Tuesday’s earthquake has left the main dock at the Port-au-Prince harbor partially submerged. Cranes that moved containers on and off ships at the port are now partially under water and listing badly. The disarray at the port is shaping up to [...] |
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