28510: Corbett (correspondence from Haiti) kidnappings

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> From Bob Corbett:  An old friend of mine who lives in Haiti recently 
joined the mailing list.  He is an American and writes:



Good to hear from you Bob!  I personally see no improvements as yet, most of 
the political dialogue I hear frightens me.  I do hope I can find time for the 
list, I do love Kathleen and Lance Durban, but sifting through it all is time 
consuming.

I was forced into a car a couple of weeks ago at gunpoint,  struggled with 
my attackers and got away.  One shot was fired which left me hard of 
hearingin my left ear for two days, but otherwise I just went on to 
finish my planned day (buy tools, e-mail, etc.)  I don't think things will 
improve, what is out of the box will remain so, and I tend to look at things 
like electricity, water, road repair,etc. when deciding if things are beter or 
worse and they surely have not improved.

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Corbett adds:  Since this was part of a personal correspondence I wrote to 
ask if I could post this and he wrote today saying yes and telling me that
La Nouvilliste reported there were 47 kidnappings reported to the police 
in May!

That's quite scary.

Bob Corbett