Topic: assassination

Widow of Haiti's slain leader speaks as political intrigue swirls

Widow of Haiti's slain leader speaks as political intrigue swirls

Robenson Geffrard, with Amelie Baron in Paris, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 11 07:59 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The widow of slain Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, who was critically wounded in the attack that claimed his life, on Saturday issued her first public remarks since the assault, calling on the nation not to "lose its way." Read more »

Suspects in Haiti president's killing arrived via Dominican Republic

Suspects in Haiti president's killing arrived via Dominican Republic

Luis Jaime Acosta, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 10 03:05 AM

BOGOTA - Several Colombians who were part of a heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week entered Haiti from neighboring Dominican Republic, sources in the Colombian army and national police said on Friday, and spent more than a month there before the killing. Read more »

Footnotes to Ninoy Aquino vignettes

Footnotes to Ninoy Aquino vignettes

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 02 12:37 AM

Benigno Aquino Sr. was NOT a traitor during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. This is a classic example of maliciously deceptive opinionated ignorance. Let me put it to rest. Read more »

Remembering Ninoy: More vignettes

Remembering Ninoy: More vignettes

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 05 02:46 AM

From readers’ reaction to our cyberchat last weekend, it became obvious to me that I can lend a hand quenching a thirst for Ninoy stories. Expectedly, this will help correct and quash the well-financed attempt of the Marcos heirs and minions, their keyboard mercenaries, who are surreptitiously reinventing and altering the history of our country’s most egregious contemporary era, even in desperate denigration of Ninoy Aquino's memory.  Read more »

Justice for Prosecutor Senados

Justice for Prosecutor Senados

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 10 10:53 AM

Manila prosecutors call for justice for the murder of their colleague, Jovencio Senados, during a protest at the Manila City Hall . Read more »

Philippine peasants were promised land. Staking a claim can be deadly

Philippine peasants were promised land. Staking a claim can be deadly

Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 28 11:40 PM

For decades, Philippine leaders have vowed to attack a glaring economic inequality framing life in this former US colony: the dominance of a handful of landowning families and the landlessness of tens of millions of farmers who till the soil in near-feudal conditions. Read more »

123 > Last