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The practice of torture
by
the United States is a negative
influence on the world
GENEVA, March 10.—The reaction of the United States and its allies to the
September 11, 2001 attacks to intensify the use of torture in their
investigations has had a highly negative influence on the rest of the world,
stated Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture. “Many countries felt
that if even the United States is officially torturing, why should not we also
torture,” the expert explained during a press conference in Geneva, in which he
took stock of his five years of his mandate. Nowak highlighted the contradiction
between the fact that the United States is seen as the country “that invented
human rights,” while he added that the “entire world knows that the United
States practiced torture although it (the government of then President George W.
Bush) denies it.”
UN representative in Haiti praises
Cuban cooperation workers
UNITED NATIONS,
March 9 (PL). — The head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH),
Edmond Mulet, today described the work of Cuban doctors in that
earthquake-struck Caribbean country as “extraordinary.” Those professionals are
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The Cuban artists
moved among the tents and bedraggled improvised shelters, drawing people out.
After the earthquake in Haiti
To heal the wounds
of the soul
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti. — On March 9, Cuba assaulted the Champ de Mars Plaza, the same one where
thousands of sad, exhausted people took shelter two months ago. And yes, it was
literally an assault, but the kind mounted by people devoted to healing the
wounds of the soul. A Cuban-style assault, with rumba from Santiago...
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