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Today on Flashpoints, we talk to our special correspondent Alejandro Reyes about the presidential elections in Mexico that have brought back the party that ruled that country for 71 years through corruption and the backing of the military. Next we take an in depth look at recent changes to Haiti’s constitution that many fear will make it illegal just to own a book written by Karl Marx or to publicly criticize their president. Finally we join the 20th annual Pastors for Peace caravan, bound for Cuba after border agents seized thier humanitarian aid as they crossed from Canada to the United States.

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Flashpoints 07-02-12

Bringing the Battlefield to the Border, The Wild World of Border Security: Also we’ll have our weekly report from on Palestine with Nora Barrows Friedman and the Eelectronic Intifada. And we’ll have Kevin Pina on with an update on Haiti.

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Flashpoints 06-07-12

Today on Flashpoints: A breaking Story of corruption and Subervision at the Highest level of the U.S. Supported Haitian Government: and an update on the UN-Triggered Colera Epidemic: Also who will the new jobs bill really benefit and why: And we continue our drumbeat coverage on the Foreclosure Pandemic.
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Adrienne Pine

Today on flashpoints another journalist is murdered in Honduras. We’ll have a live report from our correspondent Adrienne Pine. Is the EPA misleading the public with its latest positive report on fracking? And we’ll speak to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about the importance of getting the right person appointed as the new head of the World Bank. Also we’ll have a follow up on the trumped up charges against former President Aristde in Haiti.
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Today on Flashpoints: We take a closer look at the most recent campaign to paint former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti as a corrupt and violent leader. We also rebroadcast an interview I did with Flashpoints Executive Producer Dennis Bernstein about his new book of poetry: Special Ed.

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Rabbi Michael Lerner

Today on Flashpoints: A sham drug-dealing indictment in Haiti against former president John Betrand Aristide: Also we’ll have an extended conversation with Tikkun Magazine Founder, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Gilad Atzmon, Author of The Wandering Who: And we’ll speak to Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London on the situation in Syria.
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Barbara Lubin

Today on Flashpoints, we start off our show with a recording of an emergency phone call from Barbra Lubin in Gaza this morning. Lubin, the director of the Middle East Childrens Alliance, reports on violent efforts by Palestinian security forces to clear out dozens of families from a fishing village on the Gaza coast, Then, we devote the rest of the hour to Haiti where today marks the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship, in 1986.
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Carlos Munoz

Today on Flashpoints, former Haitian dictator/mass murderer baby doc. Duvalier gets a free ride from the Haitian government. Also we rebroadcast excerpts from our series on banned books in Tucson.
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Today on Flashpoints: Haiti Two years after the devastating earth quake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians, and left over a million homeless: We’ll take a look at where the rebuilding effort stands: we’ll also examine where the billions of dollars that was raised to rebuild Haiti went, and take an indepth look at politics in that country today.
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Today on Flashpoints:We spend most of the hour looking at what’s going on in Haiti today with Senior Flashpoints Correspondent Kevin Pina and a few guests he’s invited to join us on the program. And we’ll have our weekly labor report with Steve Zeltzer.
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