16668: Arthur notes mistakes in Miami Herald (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

In an article in The Miami Herald newspaper, dated Sat, Aug. 30, 2003, and
headed 'Freedom Tower site of art display designed to unify Miami', William
Yardley wrote:

TO RAISE AWARENESS: Numbers appear on the Freedom Tower Friday night, as part
of the 'Numbers Project.'....

1330. The AM broadcast frequency of Radio Haiti-Inter, shut down last year
after criticizing the ruling Lavalas party....

For six more nights, these and dozens more mysterious numbers are being
projected from the base of Miami's Freedom Tower onto its north, east and south
facades. They are timed to raise awareness of free speech and tolerance in Miami
as the city, after years of controversy and delay, hosts the Latin Grammy
award show across the street at AmericanAirlines Arena.

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Charles Arthur writes:

I have this from a Reporters Without Borders alert of 24 February 2003:

 - Station director Michèle Montas, whose husband Jean Dominique, the radio's
owner, was shot dead three years ago, announced on the air on 21 February
that it was closing down the next day.  "Three of our people have already been
killed and we don't want to lose anyone else," she said...The closure came after
serious threats were made to the station's journalists and technical staff,
who wrote to the management on 1 February expressing their great concern about
many recent incidents....Threats against the station had increased, she said,
after it was announced that the killers would soon be charged.  Since then,
proceedings seem to have come to a halt and the investigating judge has not
taken action to permit formal charges to be publicly made. -