Leid Stories - 11/04/13

Haiti Continues to Unravel Into Chaos;

Pols Rev Up Grudge Match on Stand-Your-Ground Laws

 

Still reeling from the catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed its capital and several surrounding cities 2010, Haiti remains beset by intractable woes – very little progress in rebuilding; hundreds of thousands still living in hovels as refugees; a pandemic of cholera; a collapsed economy; and a two-year-old government showing disturbing signs of returning the country to its old days of dictatorship.

Journalist Kim Ives, who has produced several documentaries on Haiti, reports on the state of affairs in Haiti, including, most recently, the pullout of 9,000 U.N.-supervised Uruguayan troops.

With the continuing dustup over Obamacare, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing last week on “Stand Your Ground” laws in several states evaded attention. Leid Stories shows how, even at the outset, the Democrat-Republican grudge match that has long hobbled progress in Congress already has reared its ugly head in what should be an objective evaluation of the application of these laws.