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To: ggersh who wrote (70345)	3/15/2024 12:50:09 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71406

I see Ariel Henry has resigned. The gangs there do seem to have a political interest. I wonder who gets control and do they have backers? They have a long hill to climb to get back to civilization. El Salvador's Bukele offers to 'fix' chaos-torn Haiti (yahoo.com) El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele said Sunday he can "fix" the spiraling crisis in Haiti, where criminal groups have unleashed havoc in recent days. Bukele, 42, is wildly popular at home and across Latin America for his crackdown on gangsters, even as rights activists raise alarm over arbitrary arrests and inhumane prison conditions. "We can fix it," Bukele wrote in English on X Sunday, sharing a post about the collapse of Haiti. "But we'll need a UNSC (United Nations Security Council) resolution, the consent of the host country, and all the mission expenses to be covered." The presidential press office later wrote that Bukele was "referring to the political and social situation that Haiti is going through." However, no further details were given on how Bukele proposes to aid the desperately poor Caribbean nation. Long-troubled Haiti has plunged further into despair in recent days as armed groups, which already control much of Port-au-Prince as well as roads leading to the rest of the country, launched a wave of attacks in a bid to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Henry was in Kenya when the violence erupted and is now reportedly stranded in the US territory of Puerto Rico. CARICOM, an alliance of Caribbean nations, has summoned envoys from the United States, France, Canada and the United Nations to a meeting Monday in Jamaica to discuss the violence. Guyana's President Irfaan Ali said the meeting would take up "critical issues for the stabilization of security and the provision of urgent humanitarian assistance." In El Salvador, Bukele launched a war on gangs in March 2022, with a state of emergency suspending the need for arrest warrants, among other civil liberties. Under the provision, authorities have rounded up some 75,000 suspected gangsters, many of them locked away in a prison -- the largest in the Americas -- that Bukele had specially built. At least 7,000 were later released. Bukele was reelected with more than 80 percent of the vote in February and is widely credited with slashing homicides to the lowest rate in three decades. His tactics have been praised and emulated by crime-weary authorities from Ecuador to Argentina. This week he re-tweeted several posts featuring images of shirtless and subdued prisoners in Argentina's most violent province, where a governor has adopted a Bukele-style crackdown on gangs. bur-apg/fb/mdl

To: ggersh who wrote (70345)	3/15/2024 12:54:41 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71406

Oh Canada: Government Blocks Citizenship Due to Russian Conviction for Criticizing the Ukrainian War I have long been a critic of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has devastated free speech in that country while assuming sweeping authoritarian powers. Now, his administration has blocked the citizenship of Maria Kartasheva because she has a conviction in Russia. The crime? Free speech. Kartasheva was convicted in Russia for criticizing the war in Ukraine. She was literally pulled out of a citizenship ceremony by Canadian officials and now fears deportation and incarceration in Russia. It is essential that we spread the word on Kartasheva’s situation to put pressure on the government to make sure that she is not deported and to finish its review of the case to move forward with her citizenship. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada yanked the citizenship application after learning of the conviction under Putin’s draconian laws. She was charged with the wartime offense of disseminating “deliberately false information” about Russia forces. She has not lived in Russia since 2019 and has lived in Ottawa as a tech worker. She is also the co-founder of a grassroots activist group for democracy in Russia. In other words, she is everything that you would want in a new citizen. Indeed, unlike Trudeau, she knows the value of free speech and how easily it is lost to government agencies. Notably, the charge was based on two blog posts that Kartasheva wrote and published in Canada. She expressed disgust at reports in March 2022 that Russian troops had killed Ukrainians in the town of Bucha. Not only did she write the blogs while living in Canada, she notified Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada about the charges and supplied the underlying papers to the government. Nevertheless, her citizenship ceremony was scheduled only to have an official block her from becoming a citizen. Oh, but it gets even worse. According to a press report, Kartasheva “was arrested in absentia by a judge sanctioned by Canada, and then convicted and sentenced to eight years in jail by a Moscow court that is also under Canadian sanctions.” That brings us to the final and most chilling aspect of this drama. The Canadian government informed Kartasheva that her conviction in Russia aligns with a Criminal Code offense in Canada relating to false information. That’s right. Canada is concerned because it also has criminalized speech and Kartasheva has used free speech to spread what her government considered false or misleading information. For example, Section 372(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada makes it unlawful for any person to convey, cause, or procure to be conveyed false information with the intent to alarm or injure anyone. The government cracked down on Internet speech despite opposition from the public and pushed 2021 Bill C-36 to impose $70,000 fines for legal content deemed “likely to foment detestation or vilification.” So this brave woman made it all the way to the West to live in freedom only to find that Canada also puts people in jail for voicing dissenting or opposing viewpoints. The problem is not that Kartasheva is fundamentally different from most Canadians. The problem is that Canada is legally not that different from Russia on free speech.