Kevin Pina
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Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his reporting that focused on human rights
abuses in Haiti
following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue
and Boniface Alexandre
in March 2004. Pina reported on events in Haiti from 2003–2006 as a Special Correspondent
for the radio program, Flashpoints
, heard on KPFA
- the flagship station of Pacifica Radio
based in Berkeley, California. Pina is also the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP)http://www.haitiinformationproject.net/index.html, a non-profit news agency based in Port-au-Prince and Northern California, and an Associate Editor for the Black Commentator, an online magazine.
Kevin Pina began reporting from Haiti in 1991 for the KPFA
News in the United States. He reported on human rights violations committed by the Haitian military in the poor neighborhood of Cité Soleil following the coup of September 30, 1991 that was led by Raoul Cédras
and Michel François
.
Pina's first Haiti documentary, Haiti: Harvest of Hope
, focused on the formation of Aristide's Lavalas
political movement, the military coup of 1991 and Aristide's eventual return from exile in October 1994. The Kreyol version of Haiti: Harvest of Hope was narrated by Haitian poet Jean-Claude Martineau and premiered in Haiti on Haitian Mother's Day in May 1995. The English version is narrated by the actor Roscoe Lee Brown and was released for distribution in the U.S. in 1997.
In early January 1999, Pina moved to Port-au-Prince where he lived and worked for the next seven years. He was the first journalist to write that paramilitary forces of the former Haitian military and the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
(FRAPH), operating in the neighboring Dominican Republic, were being used as part of a larger strategy to oust the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in April 2003. http://www.blackcommentator.com/36/36_guest_commentator.html
Between 2001 and 2003 Pina was hired for short stints as an independent consultant for Télévision Nationale d'Haïti
(TNH), a government owned station, to teach camera and digital editing. Pina was contracted concurrently for a similar position with the privately owned station Tele-Haiti in 2003, and later became the Station Manager for Haiti's largest privately owned television station TeleMax in early 2004.
According to Yves Engler
and Anthony Fenton
in their book Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority, Pina was beaten by an off-duty SWAT officer of the Haitian National Police on June 4, 2005. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1552661687 In subsequent interviews, Pina said he believed this was retribution for his actions during a demonstration on May 18, 2005 where he and several Haitian journalists blocked police from firing on unarmed protesters. A Brazilian military commander, working for the United Nations mission in Haiti known as MINUSTAH, gave orders to have Pina's picture taken during the demonstration while threatening, "You are always making trouble for us. I have taken your picture and I am going to give it to the Haitian police. They will get you." http://haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_18_5/5_18_5.html
Pina was arrested in Haiti on September 9, 2005 and held in jail for three days after attempting to videotape a search by Judge Jean Pérs Paul in the church of prisoner of conscience
Father Gérard Jean-Juste
. Pina later said he had gone to St. Claire's parish because he had received information that the judge intended to plant weapons in Jean-Juste's rectory to justify holding the priest in prison. http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/9_30_5/9_30_5.html
After Haiti: Harvest of Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXCc7q701g, Pina released a second video entitled Haiti: The UNtold Story.http://www.teledyol.net/KP/HUS/HUS.html The film chronicles human rights abuses by the Haitian police and a military assault on July 6, 2005 http://haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_12_5.html by United Nations forces where residents accuse them of massacring civilians in the impoverished neighborhood of Cité Soleil
. Haiti: The UNtold Story was an earlier version of Pina's latest documentary, Haiti: We must kill the BANDITS,http://www.haitiinformationproject.net/page2/blog.html subsequently re-edited for a final release in 2009 at the Bahamas International Film Festival
.
Pina's film credits and videography include El Salvador: In the Name of Democracy (1985), Berkeley in the Sixties (1990), Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest (1990), Haiti: Harvest of Hope
(1997), Haiti: The UNtold Story (2005) and HAITI: We Must Kill the Bandits (2007).
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
abuses in Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian former Catholic priest and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in 1982 after completing his studies...
on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue
Gérard Latortue
Gérard Latortue was the Prime Minister of Haïti from March 12, 2004 to June 9, 2006. He was an official in the United Nations for many years, and briefly served as foreign minister of Haïti during the short-lived 1988 administration of Leslie Manigat.In February 2004, the country suffered a coup...
and Boniface Alexandre
Boniface Alexandre
Boniface Alexandre is a politician in Haïti. He served as acting president of Haïti from 2004 to 2006. The 2004 Haitian coup d'état removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the Americas on February 29, 2004...
in March 2004. Pina reported on events in Haiti from 2003–2006 as a Special Correspondent
Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...
for the radio program, Flashpoints
Flashpoints (radio program)
Flashpoints is a daily investigative news and public affairs program broadcast weekdays at 5 p.m. PST on Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California...
, heard on KPFA
KPFA
KPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...
- the flagship station of Pacifica Radio
Pacifica Radio
Pacifica Radio is the oldest public radio network in the United States. It is a group of five independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations that is known for its progressive/liberal political orientation. It is also a program service supplying over 100 affiliated...
based in Berkeley, California. Pina is also the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP)http://www.haitiinformationproject.net/index.html, a non-profit news agency based in Port-au-Prince and Northern California, and an Associate Editor for the Black Commentator, an online magazine.
Kevin Pina began reporting from Haiti in 1991 for the KPFA
KPFA
KPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...
News in the United States. He reported on human rights violations committed by the Haitian military in the poor neighborhood of Cité Soleil following the coup of September 30, 1991 that was led by Raoul Cédras
Raoul Cédras
Raoul Cédras is a former military officer, and was de facto ruler of Haiti from 1991 to 1994.-Background:Cédras was educated in the United States and was a member of the US-trained Leopard Corps...
and Michel François
Michel François
Joseph-Michel François was a colonel in the Haitian army. As Haiti Chief of National Police he participated in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, which overthrew Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The Haitian Presidential candidate Michel "Sweet Mickey" Martelly is known to have...
.
Pina's first Haiti documentary, Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope was originally planned as a documentary about democracy coming to Haiti with the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in December 1990. During the final editing of the original Haiti was struck by yet another military coup...
, focused on the formation of Aristide's Lavalas
Lavalas
Lavalas, the Kréyòl word for "avalanche", may refer to:* The Lavalas Political Organization in Haiti, founded in 1991 by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his supporters, later part of the Struggling People's Party...
political movement, the military coup of 1991 and Aristide's eventual return from exile in October 1994. The Kreyol version of Haiti: Harvest of Hope was narrated by Haitian poet Jean-Claude Martineau and premiered in Haiti on Haitian Mother's Day in May 1995. The English version is narrated by the actor Roscoe Lee Brown and was released for distribution in the U.S. in 1997.
In early January 1999, Pina moved to Port-au-Prince where he lived and worked for the next seven years. He was the first journalist to write that paramilitary forces of the former Haitian military and the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haïti
The Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti was a far-rightparamilitary group organized in mid-1993. Its goal was to undermine support for the popular Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who served less than eight months as Haïti's president before being deposed, on 29 September 1991,...
(FRAPH), operating in the neighboring Dominican Republic, were being used as part of a larger strategy to oust the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in April 2003. http://www.blackcommentator.com/36/36_guest_commentator.html
Between 2001 and 2003 Pina was hired for short stints as an independent consultant for Télévision Nationale d'Haïti
Télévision Nationale d'Haiti
Télévision Nationale d'Haïti is the state television broadcaster of Haiti. Founded December 23, 1979 under the Ministry of Information and Coordination, it was Haiti's second television station after Télé Haïti .In 1987, it was merged with the state-run Radio Nationale into a network called RTNH ...
(TNH), a government owned station, to teach camera and digital editing. Pina was contracted concurrently for a similar position with the privately owned station Tele-Haiti in 2003, and later became the Station Manager for Haiti's largest privately owned television station TeleMax in early 2004.
According to Yves Engler
Yves Engler
Yves Engler is a Montréal writer and political activist. In addition to three published books, many of Engler’s writings have appeared in the alternative press, with articles also appearing in mainstream publications such as The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and Ecologist...
and Anthony Fenton
Anthony Fenton
Anthony Fenton is an independent print and radio journalist and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His first book, Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority , which he co-wrote with Yves Engler, was published in August 2005. He is a regular contributor to - Bibliography :...
in their book Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority, Pina was beaten by an off-duty SWAT officer of the Haitian National Police on June 4, 2005. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1552661687 In subsequent interviews, Pina said he believed this was retribution for his actions during a demonstration on May 18, 2005 where he and several Haitian journalists blocked police from firing on unarmed protesters. A Brazilian military commander, working for the United Nations mission in Haiti known as MINUSTAH, gave orders to have Pina's picture taken during the demonstration while threatening, "You are always making trouble for us. I have taken your picture and I am going to give it to the Haitian police. They will get you." http://haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_18_5/5_18_5.html
Pina was arrested in Haiti on September 9, 2005 and held in jail for three days after attempting to videotape a search by Judge Jean Pérs Paul in the church of prisoner of conscience
Prisoner of conscience
Prisoner of conscience is a term defined in Peter Benenson's 1961 article "The Forgotten Prisoners" often used by the human rights group Amnesty International. It can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, or political views...
Father Gérard Jean-Juste
Gérard Jean-Juste
Fr. Gérard Jean-Juste was a Roman Catholic priest and rector of Saint Claire's church for the poor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was also a liberation theologian and a supporter of the Fanmi Lavalas political party, the largest in Haiti. In 1978, Father Jean-Juste founded the Haitian Refugee Center...
. Pina later said he had gone to St. Claire's parish because he had received information that the judge intended to plant weapons in Jean-Juste's rectory to justify holding the priest in prison. http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/9_30_5/9_30_5.html
After Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope was originally planned as a documentary about democracy coming to Haiti with the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in December 1990. During the final editing of the original Haiti was struck by yet another military coup...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJXCc7q701g, Pina released a second video entitled Haiti: The UNtold Story.http://www.teledyol.net/KP/HUS/HUS.html The film chronicles human rights abuses by the Haitian police and a military assault on July 6, 2005 http://haitiaction.net/News/HIP/7_12_5.html by United Nations forces where residents accuse them of massacring civilians in the impoverished neighborhood of Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty...
. Haiti: The UNtold Story was an earlier version of Pina's latest documentary, Haiti: We must kill the BANDITS,http://www.haitiinformationproject.net/page2/blog.html subsequently re-edited for a final release in 2009 at the Bahamas International Film Festival
Bahamas International Film Festival
Bahamas International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in early December in the Bahamas, founded in 2004.The Bahamas International Film Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the local community and international visitors with a diverse presentation of films...
.
Pina's film credits and videography include El Salvador: In the Name of Democracy (1985), Berkeley in the Sixties (1990), Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest (1990), Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope
Haiti: Harvest of Hope was originally planned as a documentary about democracy coming to Haiti with the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in December 1990. During the final editing of the original Haiti was struck by yet another military coup...
(1997), Haiti: The UNtold Story (2005) and HAITI: We Must Kill the Bandits (2007).
Articles by Kevin Pina
- Kevin Pina, "Is the US Funding Haitian Contras?", The Black Commentator, April 3, 2003.
- Kevin Pina, "Propaganda war intensifies against Haiti", The Black Commentator, October 30, 2003.
- Kevin Pina, "US Corporate Media distort Haitian events", The Black Commentator, November 6, 2003.
- Kevin Pina, "The Bush Administration's End Game for Haiti", The Black Commentator, December 4, 2003.
- Kevin Pina, "Haiti's Cracked Screen: Lavalas under siege while the poor get poorer", The Black Commentator, January 15, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Haitians Seized, Abused by U.S. Marines: Women, Children Subjected to Hood Treatment", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 12, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "SWAT units kill peaceful pro-Aristide marchers", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 18, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Sò Anne continues her work in Haiti's Jails", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 24, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "3,000 Lavalasien Demonstrate on President Aristide's Birthday", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, July 15, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Lavalas Braves Climate of Terror to March and Demand for Aristide's Return", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, September 11, 2004.
- Kevin Pina, "The Untold Story of Aristide's Departure from Haiti", The Black Commentator, September 16, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Haiti Human Rights Office Attacked", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, September 18, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "NCHR lends a hand to Bush's "human rights" Tour on Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, September 24, 2004.
- Kevin Pina, "Victims of the storms over Haiti", The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 28, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN/Brazilian Troops stand-by as Haitian police provoke violence", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 1, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Paramilitaries shoot Aristide supporters", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 3, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN troops and police surround Haiti slum", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 6, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Brazilian soldier wounded in Haiti slum raid", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 9, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Catholic Priest arrested in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 13, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Haiti slum repels police amid angry protests", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 15, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Brazilian general in Haiti campaigns for Bush", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 17, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Deaths reported as UN enters Haiti slum", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, December 14, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Christmas 2004 in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, December 30, 2004.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN occupies Bel Air in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 7, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN works to squash followers of Aristide in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 9, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Aristide's Lavalas puts UN duplicity to the test in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, March 5, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Cité Soleil under siege", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, April 25, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN accommodates human rights abuses by police in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 8, 2005.
- Kevin Pina, "Open Letter to Human Rights Watch", ZNet.org, May 17, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Calls mount for investigation into rights abuses by Haiti's police", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 25, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "U.N./Police in Haiti launch major offensive against Cite Soleil", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 31, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Spokesman for Aristide's Lavalas movement condemns violence in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 3, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Haiti's police ratchet up violence, dismiss human rights concerns", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 6, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Elections: Haiti's "impossible nightmare?"", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 7, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "There is no political persecution in Haiti"", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 12, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN "peacekeepers" in Haiti accused of massacre"", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 13, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Police in Haiti continue the killing"", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 17, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "The UN, US, France and Canada support draconian laws and a "fascist" movement in Haiti"", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, August 23, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "The UN in Haiti: Part of the problem, not the solution", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, August 30, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "The UN's disconnect with the poor in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, December 25, 2005.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN's temporary amnesia in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 25, 2006.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Dark storm brewing over elections in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 6, 2006.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Haiti's human rights groups blast UN on eve of election results in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 10, 2006.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Préval supporters paralyze Haiti's capital, validity of elections in doubt", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 15, 2006.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "The Forgotten Women Prisoners of Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, June 13, 2006.
- Kevin Pina, "U.N.-Liberating Haiti", Mute Magazine, September 1, 2006
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN in Haiti accused of second massacre", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 21, 2007.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "US Embassy in Haiti acknowledges excessive force by UN", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 24, 2007.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN's "collective punishment" of the poor in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 30, 2007.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "UN terror kills Haiti's children at night", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 2, 2007.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Accusations of a UN cover-up in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 2, 2007.
- Kevin Pina, "The UNspoken truth about gangs in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 15, 2007.
- HIP/Kevin Pina, "Massive demonstrations in Haiti catch UN by surprise", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 9, 2007.
- Kevin Pina, "Haiti and America Latina: it is as it always was", Sage Journals, Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 2, 100-108 (2007), April, 2007.
- Kevin Pina, "Drugs and Politics in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, July 24, 2007.
- Kevin Pina, "One Lavalas official freed in Haiti, second remains missing", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, October 31, 2007.
- Kevin Pina, "Pentagon's troubling role in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 12, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Haiti's wealthy prosper while the poor decline", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, January 29, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Mud Cookie Economics in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 10, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Brazilian military's experience comes full circle in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 20, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, March 9, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "From Haiti to Tibet, China's role in suppressing democracy", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, March 17, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "One protester killed as demonstrations grow in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, April 4, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Haiti: Latortue lacks credibility for UN post in Guinea ", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, April 8, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Haiti: Aristide and the removal of Alexis", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, April 13, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Ortega killed by US Marines in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, May 15, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Fears of a cover-up grow in the case of missing human rights activist in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, August 20, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "The rebirth of Konbit in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, December 17, 2008.
- Kevin Pina, "Controversial Senate elections planned in Haiti", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, April 6, 2009.
- Kevin Pina, "Low Turnout Projected for Haiti Senate Election", Foreign Policy Journal, April 20, 2009.
- Kevin Pina, "Lavalas flexes its muscles in Haiti", San Francisco Bay View, April 29, 2009.
Articles about Kevin Pina
- Yee-Guan Wong, "Reeling in Haiti ", NOW Magazine, Toronto, July 25, 2005.
- Associated Press, "Haitian police detain 2 journalists ", The Boston Globe, September 11, 2005
- Justin Felix, "American Journalist Arrested in Haiti ", CounterPunch.org, September 12, 2005.
- Leisa Faulkner, "San Francisco Bay Area Journalist Kevin Pina Held in Haiti ", CommonDreams.org, September 12, 2005.
- Associated Press, "Haitian judge orders release of journalists ", USA TODAY, September 12, 2005.
- Chris Thompson, "A Nation's Forgotten Suffering ", East Bay Express, September 21, 2005.
- CHRISTOPHER HAZOU, "Coups, killings and Canada ", Montreal Mirror, September 29, 2005
- Tim Pelzer, "Documentary Review: Haiti – We must kill the bandits ", PoliticalAffairs.net, May 8, 2007.
Interviews by Kevin Pina
- "5,000 in Haiti protest UN massacre in Cite Soleil: Kevin Pina interviews Georges Honorat", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, July 16, 2005.
- "Kevin Pina interviews the most-wanted man in Haiti: Amaral Duclona", Haiti Information Project/HaitiAction.net, February 1, 2006.
- Flashpoints interview with Father Gerard Jean-Juste by Kevin PIna, "Who really killed Jean Dominique and Jacques Roche?", HaitiAction.net, April 13, 2006.
- Flashpoints interview with Desiree Wayne by Kevin Pina, "UN powerless as political prisoners waste away in Haiti?", HaitiAction.net, May 4, 2006.
Interviews with Kevin Pina
- Charles Boylan/Wake Up with Co-op Radio interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Rolling Haiti Back to Colonialism", ZNet.org, September 21, 2004 (originally aired September 8, 2004).
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Floods", ZNet.org, September 23, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "The Tragedy of Gonaïves", ZNet.org, September 26, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Flood of Repression in Haiti Continues", ZNet.org, October 1, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Violence", ZNet.org, October 11, 2004.
- Flashponts interview transcript, "Arrested Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste and Kevin Pina", uppingtheanti.org, October 14, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Death Squads Rampage in Haiti", ZNet.org, October 17, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Tearing Up the UN Charter", ZNet.org, October 20, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Repression in Haiti", ZNet.org, October 25, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Emergency", ZNet.org, November 1, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Right-wing Thugs revel in Bush's Victory", ZNet.org, November 9, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Latortue's House of Cards Crumbling in Haiti", ZNet.org, November 11, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Extermination of Lavalas", ZNet.org, December 7, 2004.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti and the Dominican Republic", ZNet.org, January 29, 2005.
- Ken Rockburn interviews Kevin Pina, aired nationally on "Canada's Political Channel,CPAC, "Canada and the UN are 'fronting' for US foreign policy in Haiti", ZNet.org, February 21, 2005.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Massacre and UN", ZNet.org, February 28, 2005.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Flashpoints: Does Haiti need more arms?", HaitiAction.net, April 8, 2005.
- Steppin Out of Babylon interview with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Information Project: Journalism in Haiti", www.suesupriano.com, July 18, 2005.
- The McGill Daily, "A witness to massacre"", www.mcgilldaily.com, October 14, 2005.
- AS IT HAPPENS (CBC) audio interview with Kevin Pina, "Kevin Pina and the Untold Story of Haiti", cbc.ca, October 17, 2005.
- Active Ingredients/Paki Wieland audio interview with Kevin Pina, "The Haiti Deception", grassrootspeace.org, November 4, 2005.
- THIS IS HELL audio interview with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Update: Drug and Corruption charges against Aristide", wnur.org, November 5, 2005.
- Derrick O'Keefe, "Kevin Pina:"This is a cover-up and Paul Martin knows it"", MRZine.org, November 11, 2005.
- Jack Elkin (video interview with Kevin Pina), "Face to Face", I.C.T.V Victoria, February 28, 2006.
- Progressive Voices, "What's going on in Haiti?", WVUD.org, June 6, 2006.
- Flashpoints interview transcript with Kevin Pina, "Haiti: Revelations of UN's role in massacres", HaitiAction.net, January 29, 2007.
- Flashpoints audio report with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Update: Clinton & Ki-Moon protests", kpfa.org, March 9, 2009.
- Flashpoints audio report with Kevin Pina, "Haiti Update: Obama green lights sham elections in Haiti", kpfa.org, April 13, 2009.
- Takes on the World with Jeffrey Blankfort, "Kevin Pina: Implications of Clinton visit to Haiti", tucradio.org, April 22, 2009.,
- The Jeff Farias Show, " Kevin Pina: Obama policy in Haiti", KXXT, Phoenix, April 22, 2009.