Peer-reviewed Study in British medical journal The Lancet finds 8,000 Deaths in Port-au-Prince under Haitian Interim Government

Listen to an interview with the authors of a new Haiti human rights study on Democracy Now , that has been published in the British Medical Journal The Lancet. It further confirms what numerous other human rights studies have found over the last 2 years in Haiti. The studies' authors conducted interviews with the inhabitants of 1,200 different homes in the greater Port-au-Prince area, calculating that a total of 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual Assaults occurred during the period of the interim government.

Also another interesting piece came out today in the

Independent, discussing some of the tactics that the U.S. embassy in Managua has utilized towards manipulating Nicaragua's upcoming November 2006 presidential election.