Adopting From Haiti: Too Soon?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2010 Indeed it is too soon, says actress Angelina Jolie, who has three adopted children, from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. In the wake of allegations of child kidnapping and fears of child trafficking in Haiti, Jolie has come out to make the very uncontroversial assertion that "an emergency is not the time for new adoptions." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Adoption in Haiti [A Cartoon From Germany]

Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany Feb 9, 2010 Dig deeper

Baptist Do-Gooders in Trouble in Haiti

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2010 Call it vigilante relief work or kidnapping, 10 American Baptists are in jail in Port-au-Prince after attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti in what they claim was an effort to "do the right thing." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fujimori’s Sentence Upheld

Staff / Truthdig Jan 3, 2010 Peru's Supreme Court has confirmed a verdict finding Alberto Fujimori guilty of ordering the kidnapping and murder of 25 dissidents during his presidency from 1990 to 2000. His 25-year sentence marks the first time a democratically elected Latin American ruler was found guilty of human rights abuses in his own country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kidnapped Colombian Governor Found Dead

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 Colombian officials were blaming the rebel organization FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, for the death of Luis Francisco Cuellar, governor of the country's southern province of Caquetá, on Wednesday. Cuellar had been kidnapped Monday night and was found less than a day later with his throat slit. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Peru’s War on the Indigenous

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2009 In clashes between native groups armed with spears and development interests packing guns, Peru has seen at least 50 people die and hundreds go missing after President Alan Garcia initiated a campaign to open the rain forest to foreign investors. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox

Staff / Truthdig Feb 2, 2009 President Obama may be trying to shut down Guantanamo and CIA black sites, but he's decided to make renditions a part of his regime. In case you've repressed it along with other Bush-era nightmares, extraordinary rendition is what the U.S. calls kidnapping someone and sending him to a nasty place to be tortured. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

O.J. Simpson Sentenced to Prison

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2008 O.J. Simpson's fame in the football and film arenas was eclipsed by his nationally polarizing murder trial in 1995. On Friday, he was back in court in Las Vegas facing kidnapping and burglary charges, but the outcome was not in his favor this time. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Argentine ‘Dirty War’ Murderer Gets Life

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2008 Former Argentine army officer and current scumbag Luciano Benjamin Menendez finally got what should have happened to him 30 years ago: a life sentence in jail for the kidnap, torture and murder of anti-dictatorship activists in 1977. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kidnappers Free Baghdad Security Spokesman

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2008 Iraq's civilian spokesman for Baghdad security was released from captivity Monday. Professor Tahseen al-Sheikhli, who was kidnapped a few days ago, was found unharmed, except for his ego. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush and Karzai Nix Taliban’s Hostages Deal

Staff / Truthdig Aug 7, 2007 Joining forces for a press conference at Camp David on Monday, President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused the Taliban's proposal for a prisoner swap. The Taliban says it will free the 21 surviving South Korean Christians kidnapped in Afghanistan on July 19 if captive Taliban members are released. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The First Victims of America’s Mega-Embassy

Staff / Truthdig Jul 28, 2007 According to the testimony of two American civilian contractors, the construction of the massive U.S. Embassy in Iraq involved the tacit abduction and abuse of migrant workers. One contractor testified that he was told to furtively escort a group of Filipinos onto a Baghdad-bound plane even though their tickets read "Dubai," while another called working conditions at the $600-million project "deplorable." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )