{"id":189665,"date":"2010-02-25T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/25\/haiti-will-shortly-free-last-two-american-kidnappers-missionaries\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:04:00","slug":"haiti-will-shortly-free-last-two-american-kidnappers-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/25\/haiti-will-shortly-free-last-two-american-kidnappers-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Will Shortly Free Last Two American Kidnappers Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8533210.stm\">not an exoneration<\/a>.  It&#8217;s an acknowledgment that the courts in Haiti are a shambles, and that they are getting a lot of pressure from the US.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear from the back story that something <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very wrong was going on<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">A judge in Haiti has said the last two Christian US missionaries being held on suspicion of abducting children after the earthquake may be freed in days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Bernard Sainvil told Reuters the case, which involves 33 children, should be closed this week because there were no criminal grounds to pursue it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">A lawyer for the two said he thought they would be freed by Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Eight fellow missionaries were released last week but their leader and her assistant were kept in custody.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other 8 are <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/8-of-10-jailed-haitians-released.html\">claiming that they had been scammed by Silsby and Coulter<\/a>, and I am inclined to believe that something more than inattention to the finer points of Haitian immigration law is involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not an exoneration. It&#8217;s an acknowledgment that the courts in Haiti are a shambles, and that they are getting a lot of pressure from the US. It&#8217;s clear from the back story that something very wrong was going on: A judge in Haiti has said the last two Christian US missionaries being held &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1068,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-latin-america","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}