Well, it’s early Saturday morning and just when I sit down to write about one of the major events of the last week, we run headlong into yet another example of events moving faster than I can blog. Last Thursday, as a result of actions taken by the State Department, numerous media outlets reported that […]

Has this whole spectacle of the New Lifer’s arrests in Haiti and the ensuing international incident taught the people involved any kind of lesson, led to any form of remorse (other than their remorse at being caught red-handed), or dissuaded them from their current intended course of actions? Apparently not. By way of keeping this […]

In all the insanity surrounding the Haitian mess, I haven’t had time to really scratch the surface of the Jorge Puello story beyond the initial post I wrote as the trafficking allegations against Puello first came to light: NYT- El Salvador Investigates Adviser to Detained Americans in Haiti (Jorge Puello) While I’ve been following it […]

See 8 Americans detained in Haiti freed on bail, 2 others to remain as but one of no doubt what will become an avalanche of coverage. Laura Silsby and  Charisa Coulter remain in custody, they: will remain in Haiti because the judge wants to determine why they traveled to Haiti on an earlier trip before […]

Obviously, there are a great number of things I could say about the ten American missionary child scavengers sitting in a Haitian Jail at the moment. But what I have to say is not the point. It’s their own words that are at issue here. Already,  just in the short time since their arrests, conflicting […]

Once again, I’m going to pick up my partner Mike’s writing about the Friday evening arrests of 10 missionaries for their attempted removal of kids from Haiti to the Dominican Republic. The text below the line is Mike’s latest post from his personal blog. American citizens pose for a photo at police headquarters in the […]

As the Haitian child exports are receiving a great deal of attention at the moment I’d like to welcome new readers and recommend a visit to my about page and my WTF page. They answer many basic questions and lay out my comments policy. Prior to reading through this series, first look at the earlier articles on […]

The Miami Herald has done an important investigative series concerning the ease with which Haitian children have been smuggled across the border into the Dominican Republic in the wake of the earthquake. While the reports focus on the porous border in terms of child trafficking for purposes of house slave or shoe shine boy labor, […]

Each year for the past four years Pound Pup Legacy (advocates for child safety within the foster care and adoption system) have offered a respite/cold hard dose of sanity and relief from the from the dreadful  Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute‘s annual Angels in Adoption awards: PPL’s annual Demons of Adoption Awards. The Angels in […]

The kids the New Life missionary scavengers attempted to bus from Citron and  Calebasse to the Dominican Republic have been staying in an SOS Children’s Village  since January 30th, the day after the aborted child export attempt on Jan 29th. Today news came that the kids will be returned to their families. According to the […]