Happy birthday à notre collaborateur, le Journaliste Gérard Maxineau.

Gérard Maxineau Happy birthday à notre collaborateur, Son excellence, le Journaliste Gérard Maxineau, qui fête également, ce mardi 14 septembre, son 3e anniversaire de mariage. Nous lui souhaitons du succès et un avenir heureux. RESEAU CITADELLE. ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

To support Douglas’ victims in Haiti, advocators will once again distribute leaflets at Fairfield University, during Homecoming and Family Weekend (October 23 - 24, 2010).

Dear President Von Arx, I will once again distribute leaflets at the main entrance to Fairfield University, this time during Homecoming and Family Weekend (October 23 - 24, 2010). The boys in Haiti who were sexually abused by Douglas Perlitz need food, safe shelter, medical attention and money to pay for school. Paul Kendrick

Visible Presence at Homecoming Weekend

Dear President Von Arx, I will once again distribute leaflets at the main entrance to Fairfield University, this time during Homecoming and Family Weekend (October 23 - 24, 2010). The boys in Haiti who were sexually abused by Douglas Perlitz need food, safe shelter, medical attention and money to pay for school. Paul Kendrick

AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE Building homes a struggle in Haiti As the government drags its feet on housing decisions, a slum sprouts in Haiti's city of the future. Buy Photo Corail Cesselesse is the name of the government relocation camp in Haiti with over 5,000 earthquake victims living in tents on June 30, 2010. This woman, who did not want to be identified, bags charcoal for cooking. She sells it to camp residents. AL DIAZ / THE MIAMI HERALD STAFF Photo Related Content How can the countries of the Americas keep the growth going? BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti -- It was promised as the place where those displaced from the Western Hemisphere's worst natural disaster could begin to rebuild their shattered lives as they await the birth of a new city. Here, 12 miles north of a quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, on a sun-beaten gravel plain, thousands left homeless by the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake would live in tents, then three months later move into studier shelters. Eventually, they would own permanent homes as part of a newly developed community offering government services sorely lacking in Haiti: running water and electricity. New factory jobs would follow nearby. Six months later, only a few plywood temporary shelters are up, and most of what was promised in Corail-Cesselesse has not been delivered. Instead, hundreds arrive daily with no control, grabbing private land around the emergency relocation camp. Rather than resemble a new Haiti, Corail is beginning to look like the old one as the barren mountain slopes and land surrounding it mushroom with thousands of shacks made of blue and gray tarp, and even cement block. ``Everyday, it is multiplying,'' said Frandy Roberts, 24, who moved into a flimsy white tent in April. Since then, he has watched as Corail threatens to become a menacing slum. With more than 40,000 squatters now calling the once vacant land around Corail home, Haitians and foreign critics blame the international community for the ``disaster'' here. They say it was forced on the government of Haiti despite strong opposition from President René Préval. ``There is a tremendous responsibility from the international community for creating this monster,'' said Jean-Christophe Adrian, country manager for the United Nations Human Settlements Program in Haiti. ``It is addressing a minute number but creating a huge problem.'' `HOLLYWOOD, PENTAGON' Adrian said Corail, officially home to 7,000 quake victims, is an example of what happens ``when Hollywood and the Pentagon get involve in humanitarian aid. ``It doesn't work,'' he said. The reference is to both actor Sean Penn, who moved into a tent and took over the operation at the Pétionville Golf Course, and Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, who served as the commander of the joint U.S. military operation in the early days of the emergency response. Both were among several who pushed the government to find suitable land to relocate homeless quake victims living in areas considered to be at high-risk of flooding and landslides. ``They were completely wrong in evaluating the risks. Second, they were so desperate to show something concrete they've done here, that Corail was one of them,'' Adrian said. ``That was really the wrong decision, creating Corail. All of this land that's supposed to be used for the future of Port-au-Prince now has been invaded.'' Penn said that the Corail-model is not the problem. Rather, it is the failure of the various U.N. organizations and nongovernmental organizations to follow through on the promises made to the families who voluntarily relocated, and to organizations like his, who assisted in the relocation. ``We were working toward an emergency relocation but only as part of a larger ongoing commitment and as agents of those who committed to it, and who later forfeited on their obligations,'' Penn told The Miami Herald by telephone from Michigan, where he's filming. ``It's sinful.'' Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/13/1823524/building-homes-a-struggle-in-haiti.html?story_link=email_msg#ixzz0zXUxe9sk ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

Commentary: My reading of the situation on the ground in Haiti

Opinion-Editorial Commentary: My reading of the situation on the ground in Haiti Published on September 11, 2010 By Jean H Charles I have travelled from the southern point of Haiti, the beautiful town of Port Salut, to the bursting frontier city of Ouanaminthe in the northern part of the country near Fort Liberte, talking to the locals, observing and forming an opinion on the situation on the ground. Jean H Charles MSW, JD is Executive Director of AINDOH Inc a non profit organization dedicated to building a kinder and gentle Caribbean zone for all. He can be reached at: jeanhcharles@aol My conclusion is the nation of Haiti is plagued with the syndrome of mediocrity and of leveling at the bottom due to fifty years of ill and corrupt governance. There was, first, 35 years of dictatorship by the Duvaliers, then three years of military governance -- Namphy-Cedras -- and lately twenty years of anarchic-populism by the Preval-Arisitide regime that set Haiti into a course leading to an abyss without end. It was first the assassination of the intellectuals in the 70s, followed by the forced departure of the middle class in the 90s and now governance by the mob culture. The Haitian middle class that in the past set national values in education, formation and upbringing has fled the country for pastures in Montreal, Canada; Miami, Florida or Brooklyn, New York, leaving the large mass of uneducated Haitians on their own, fending without proper guidance. The successive Haitian governments for the past fifty years have cultivated lower aspirations in the minds and the spirit, trickling down into a culture of arrogance, incompetence and plain criminality as a way of life accepted by most. Compounding the problem, the international community has been a loyal incubator and facilitator of the successive regimes that keep their tight grip in the past, the present and the future destiny of the Haitian people. On the ground, the road from Port au Prince to the south of Haiti is a pleasant experience. The nightmare comes when travelling through the suburb of the capital (Carrefour- Martissant), where a water pipe break has been unrepaired for the last forty years. The road construction is carried on during the day instead of at night when the traffic is lighter. Being caught in a traffic jam that lasted three hours is not unusual. Passing through that logjam, the entire country is unspoiled and undeveloped. The Aquin beachfront has sand so soft and water so warm that one has great pain to leave for firm land. Filling oneself with lobsters, crabs and shrimp is limited only by the fear of a sudden death due to an overdose of cholesterol. Haiti, for those who have the means, is a land of fantasy, where everything is possible for the simple reason that you can. Yet the extreme misery as well as the lack of governmental service is overwhelming. Public transportation is not regulated. People are packed like sardines in recycled American school buses that serve as the backbone of the transportation system. The mountains of Haiti that an enlightened government would fill with mahogany trees that would enrich the nation in the next generation are showing rocks that were deep into the ground. Crossing the capital, which is now in rubble, with tent quarters everywhere, including on the dividing line of the highway, one has the impression of travelling through a war zone, except Haiti is not at war and the Haitian people are busy, surviving one day at a time. The gate to the north of the country needs a bus station but successive governments did not realize this minimum of standard of service and attention is a must in most metropolis of the world. Large improvements have been made in the auto-route to the north of the country; the headache is crossing the city of Gonaives, which after six years since the inundation of 2004 still necessitates a long and dangerous detour. Why is this repair not a governmental priority? You enter into the realm of arrogance of the government on one side and complaisance of the people on the other side that explains the squalid condition of Haiti. Cape Haitian, the second largest city of the country, a damaging jewel that rivals Old Town, San Juan, the French Quarter of New Orleans or Old Santo Domingo, is showing the pressure of overcrowding (some 350,000 new internal refugees have invaded the city since the earthquake!), as well as profound neglect and plain disregard of a minimum standard of public hygiene. The main Iron Market should be closed by any respectable public hygiene inspector due to the large amount of detritus and unclean sewers that may go back to 15 years of lack of maintenance. The city streets are undergoing a much needed renovation. The city's splendor of the past can already be perceived. Yet Labadie, the celebrated beach facility of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, located 15 minutes from the city proper, cannot pour into the city its 10,000 foreign visitors who visit Haiti every week to meander into the antique streets where each home could be a museum site. Haiti has a fully-fledged government with all types of ministries. Taking as an example the ministry of labor, we find 87% of the population is unemployed; yet, there is not systematic program of job creation. The ministry of tourism has a master plan with no incremental process to deliver essential services that will induce the tourists to come back. The city of Cape Haitian has no running water for a population of more than a million people. There was a breakdown of the system some fifteen years ago. The city now has electricity thanks to Hugo Chavez, a thank you note for the Haitian contribution to the Venezuelan liberation against slavery. There is no excitement in the air about the upcoming election, orchestrated by the Preval government, monitored by CARICOM, engineered by the OAS and secured by the UN. Those under tents have now raised their voice, they will not vote under their appalling condition; the public at large has called the exercise a political masquerade where the winner is known beforehand. Haiti, like South Africa before Mandela, needs the help of all good people of the earth to profit from this transitional window of opportunity to usher into a true democracy. The comedy has lasted for too long! Mother Nature is showing clear signal of fatigue; the chickens are coming home to roost! Map of Haiti with Port Salut in the south-west and Ouanaminthe near Fort Liberte in the northeast ____________________ "La vraie reconstruction d'Haïti passe par des réformes en profondeur des structures de l'État pour restaurer la confiance, encourager les investisseurs et mettre le peuple au travail. Il faut finir avec cette approche d'un État paternaliste qui tout en refusant de créer le cadre approprié pour le développement des entreprises mendie des millions sur la scène internationale en exhibant la misère du peuple." Cyrus Sibert Reconstruction d'Haïti : A quand les Réformes structurelles? Haïti : La continuité du système colonial d'exploitation  prend la forme de monopole au 21e Siècle. WITHOUT REFORM, NO RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN HAITI (U.S. Senate report.)

Justice pour Gérald Jean Gilles, tué par pendaison.

Plusieurs organisations sociopolitiques du Nord réclament le départ des casques bleus. Ces dernières semaines des responsables de plusieurs organisations sociopolitiques du Nord ont organisé des manifestations anti-Minustah. Vendredi dernier les manifestants ont réclamé le départ des forces onusiennes qui ont perpétré selon eux plusieurs exactions dans le pays. A l'initiative du Mouvement des Jeunes Nationalistes (MJN), plusieurs dirigeants et militants d'organisations politiques et de la société civile du Nord ont pris part à la marche qui a permis de condamner la mort d'un adolescent dans un baraquement de la Minustah. Les protestataires ont réclamé justice pour Gérald Jean Gilles, tué par pendaison. Les circonstances du décès de ce jeune n'ont toujours pas été élucidées. Les casques bleus ont fait valoir qu'ils avaient découvert le corps inerte du jeune à l'aube. Cette version des faits est contestée par les parents de la victime et plusieurs personnalités de la cité christophienne. Le président du sénat, Kelly Bastien, avait appelé les autorités à réaliser une enquête afin de faire la lumière sur ce crime. Devant le baraquement du contingent népalais au Cap Haïtien, les manifestants ont réclamé justice pour le jeune Jean Gilles. Le coordonnateur du MJN, John Latortue, a dénoncé les multiples exactions des casques bleus à Port-au-Prince et dans diverses régions du pays. Il rappelle les agressions dont ont été victimes des étudiants de la faculté Ethnologie de l'UEH. Les manifestants ont dénoncé le silence complice des autorités haïtiennes dans ce dossier. Les responsables de la Minustah qui avaient dépêché une mission dans le Nord n'ont à ce jour fourni aucune explication sur les causes du décès de l'adolescent. Le sénateur Bastien s'était interrogé sur le fonctionnement de la mission onusienne qui a pris l'initiative de violer les conventions internationales en recrutant un mineur dans son personnel. LLM / radio Métropole Haïti

ÉTATS-UNIS : Nouvelles règles du Pentagone sur la couverture presse de Guantanamo/Pentagon issues new rules for Guantanamo coverage/Nuevas reglas del Pentágono sobre la cobertura de prensa de Guantánamo

Français/English/Español Reporters sans frontières Communiqué de presse 13 septembre 2010 États-Unis Nouvelles règles du Pentagone sur la couverture presse de Guantanamo Reporters sans frontières prend acte des nouvelles règles applicables aux médias présents à Guantanamo édictées par le Pentagone, le 10 septembre 2010. S'il s'agit d'un premier pas positif dans le dialogue entre le département de la Défense et les médias, nous nous inquiétons toutefois de la mainmise que les autorités militaires conservent sur l'information. La mise en pratique de ces règles aura donc, selon nous, valeur de test.   Ces nouvelles règles comportent trois changements majeurs :   1 - Les journalistes ne risquent plus d'être expulsés de Guantanamo pour une information s'y rapportant, même une information recueillie précédemment en dehors de la base, comme cela s'est passé en mai dernier.   2 - Les photographies et les vidéos prises par les journalistes ne peuvent plus être détruites par le bureau des relations publiques du département de la Défense si y apparaît un contenu jugé "interdit" par les autorités, comme auparavant. Les médias ont le droit de retoucher les clichés. Toutefois, le photographe ne peut choisir de retravailler que deux photos par jour.   3 - Les journalistes peuvent dorénavant contester les décisions du bureau des relations publiques si le Pentagone leur refuse l'accès à certaines informations.   Selon l'avocat new-yorkais David Schulz, conseil de divers médias tels que The Miami Herald, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press (AP), Dow Jones et Reuters, "le département de la Défense a eu une démarche positive. Il admet ne plus pouvoir censurer les informations recueillies en dehors de Guantanamo. Il s'agit d'un réel effort, qui simplifie le travail des journalistes". L'avocat a, par ailleurs, confié à Reporters sans frontières que les journalistes pourraient accéder plus facilement aux documents publics, désormais mis à jour sur le site Internet de la Commission militaire (www.defense.gov/home/features/gitmo), site dont une nouvelle version est prévue pour décembre prochain.     Mark Seibel, directeur du bureau de Washington pour les publications en ligne McClatchy, déclare quant à lui :  "Sur le papier, il s'agit d'un pas qui correspond à peu près à ce que j'attendais. Mais je suis toujours  désolé de constater que les autorités se sentent obligées de passer les photos et les vidéos en revue. Cependant, l'aspect le plus important est de nous laisser accéder à la liste de toutes les procédures judiciaires en cours, ce qui n'est pas confidentiel au regard de la loi. Si nous pouvons y avoir accès, nous aurons au moins la possibilité de demander des copies."   "Je suis encore en train d'étudier ces nouvelles règles. On peut être optimiste, dès lors qu'il est très clairement spécifié que publier des informations déjà disponibles dans la sphère publique n'est plus un motif d'expulsion. Même si ces informations sont considérées comme protégées", nous a confié Carol Rosenberg, journaliste du Miami Herald, expulsée de Guantanamo en mai dernier.    Le 6 mai 2010, le Pentagone avait expulsé de Guantanamo les journalistes canadiens Paul Koring (The Globe and Mail), Michelle Shephard (Toronto Star), Stephen Edwards (CanWest) et leur collègue américaine Carol Rosenberg (Miami Herald) pour avoir publié le nom d'un témoin des techniques d'interrogatoires pratiquées sur le prisonnier canadien Omar Khadr, en 2002, avant son témoignage devant la cour. Les journalistes ont à présent l'autorisation de retourner sur place.   Optimisme relatif   Toutefois, ces nouvelles règles ne modifient rien au contrôle militaire sur l'information. Le juge militaire reste en mesure d'exiger d'un journaliste la source d'une information et de le poursuivre pour "outrage à la cour" s'il refuse de la lui donner.   Si les journalistes couvrant les commissions militaires de la base peuvent à présent s'entretenir avec le procureur ou l'avocat de la défense, le bureau des relations publiques demeure la seule autorité susceptible d'autoriser ou de répondre aux interviews sollicitées par la presse dans ce domaine. "De telle consignes figurent également dans les dernières décisions prises par le département de la Défense concernant les relations avec les médias. Apparemment, le Pentagone compte toujours filtrer de manière très stricte l'information délivrée à la presse et au public. Nous craignons que ce contrôle ne décourage finalement  le bureau des relations publiques de s'adresser aux médias", a conclu Reporters sans frontières.   Douglas B. Wilson, assistant aux affaires publiques du secrétaire à la Défense, a souligné, le 2 septembre, la volonté du Pentagone de restreindre l'accès de la presse à des informations déclarées "non autorisées", et d'empêcher au maximum les témoignages anonymes auprès des médias. Ce mémo fait écho à celui que le secrétaire d'État a la Défense, Robert Gates, a émis le 2 juillet dernier, demandant à tous les fonctionnaires du département de la Défense d'aviser le bureau des relations publiques avant toute communication avec les médias ou les citoyens.  __________ United States   Pentagon issues new rules for Guantanamo coverage   Reporters Without Borders takes note of the new ground rules for journalists covering the "military commissions" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which the US Defence Department issued on 10 September. They represent a positive first step in a dialogue between the Pentagon and the media but we are concerned by the control that the military continues to exercise over reporting. It remains to be seen how the rules are applied in practice.   The new rules contain three major changes:   1 - Journalists will no longer run the risk of being expelled or barred from Guantanamo because of information they report that was obtained in the course of news gathering outside Guantanamo.   2 - The Pentagon's public affairs office will still check the contents of cameras but will no longer automatically delete photos and videos with content it considers "protected." Photographers will be able to crop a photo (or edit video) instead of having to delete it, but they will be limited to two cropped images a day.   3 - If the public affairs office denies journalists access to certain information, they will be able to make a written appeal to discuss the decision.   "The Defence Department has taken affirmative steps," said New York lawyer David Schulz, who is representing several news organizations including the Miami Herald, New York Times, Washington Post, AP, Dow Jones and Reuters. "They acknowledge that they cannot censor the information gathered outside Guantanamo anymore. There is definitely a credit for making an effort to make it more feasible for the reporters to follow what is going on at Guantanamo."   Schulz told Reporters Without Borders that journalists will also be able to access public documents relating to the military trials in Guantanamo more easily as they will be listed on a Pentagon website (www.defense.gov/home/features/gitmo) that will be revamped in December.   Mark Seibel, who oversees the McClatchy Washington bureau's website, said: "I would say that on paper it is a good step forward and about what I had expected. I am still sorry they feel they need to review all photos and video. Key to us is the provision of the document inventory, which is a list of all filings in a case. By regulation, it is unclassified. If they begin making it available, we will know what has been filed and then can at least ask for copies."   Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, who was one of four reporters barred from Guantanamo last May, told Reporters Without Borders: "I am still studying [the new rules]. They leave room for optimism, particularly the portion that makes crystal clear it is not a violation to publish already public information even if it is labelled 'Protected Information'."   Rosenberg and three Canadian journalists – Paul Koring of the Globe and Mail, Michelle Shephard  of the Toronto Star and Stephen Edwards of CanWest – were barred from Guantanamo on 6 May for publishing the name of an army interrogator who testified at a hearing about the methods used to interrogate a Canadian detainee, Omar Khadr, in 2002. The reporters have since been allowed to return.   Limited optimism   The new rules do not in any way modify the Pentagon's control over coverage of the trials. Military judges are still able to demand that journalists reveal the sources of their information and can still prosecute them for contempt of court if they refuse. Although reporters covering the Guantanamo military trials now have a right to interview prosecutors and defence lawyers, the public affairs officers are still "the sole approval authority" for granting interview requests.   "The same kind of attitude has been apparent in other recent Defence Department decisions concerning relations with the media," Reporters Without Borders said. "It seems that the Pentagon still intends to maintain very tight control over the information that is given to the press and public. We fear that such controls will end up discouraging the public affairs office from talking to the media."   In a 2 September memo to officials and the news media, assistant secretary of defence for public affairs Douglas B. Wilson reasserted the Pentagon's determination to curb the flow of unauthorized information to the news media. It echoed the memo that defence secretary Robert Gates sent to all Pentagon officials on 2 July ordering them to check with the public affairs office before any contact with the media or public. __________ Estados Unidos Nuevas reglas del Pentágono sobre la cobertura de prensa de Guantánamo Reporteros sin Fronteras toma nota de las nuevas reglas aplicables a los medios de comunicación presentes en Guantánamo decretadas por el Pentágono, el 10 de septiembre de 2010. Aunque se trate de un primer paso positivo en el diálogo entre el Departamento de Defensa y los medios de comunicación, nos preocupa el poder que conservan las autoridades militares sobre la información. A nuestro juicio, la aplicación de esas reglas servirá de prueba.   Estas nuevas normas conllevan tres cambios principales:   1 – Los periodistas ya no pueden ser expulsados de Guantánamo por una información afín, incluso si se trata de una noticia recogida anteriormente fuera de la base, tal como ocurrió el pasado mes de mayo.   2 – La oficina de Relaciones Públicas del Departamento de Defensa ya no puede destruir las fotografías o vídeos sacados por los periodistas aunque las autoridades consideren que se trate de un contenido "prohibido", tal como ocurría hasta ahora. Sin embargo, el fotógrafo sólo puede retocar dos fotografías al día.   3 – A partir de ahora, los periodistas pueden impugnar las decisiones de la Oficina de Relaciones Públicas si el Pentágono les deniega el acceso a cierta información.   Según el abogado neoyorquino David Schulz, asesor de varios medios de comunicación como The Miami Herald, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Associated Press (AP), Dow Jones y Reuters, "La conducta del Departamento de Defensa es positiva. Admite no poder seguir censurando la información recogida fuera de Guantánamo. Se trata de un esfuerzo real, que simplifica la labor de los periodistas". Por otra parte, el abogado ha declarado a Reporteros sin Fronteras que los periodistas podrían acceder con más facilidad a los documentos públicos, ahora actualizados en la página Web de la Comisión militar (www.defense.gov/home/features/gitmo), sitio del que se ofrecerá una nueva versión el próximo mes de diciembre.   Mark Seibel, director de la oficina de Washington para las publicaciones en línea McClatchy, declara por su parte: "En el papel, se trata de un paso adelante que corresponde más o menos a lo que me esperaba. Pero me consterna que las autoridades se sientan obligadas a pasar revista a las fotos y los vídeos. No obstante, el aspecto más importante es que nos dejen acceder a la lista de todos los procedimientos judiciales en curso, lo que no se considera confidencial respecto a la ley. Si podemos acceder a ello, por lo menos podremos solicitar copias".   "Sigo estudiando estas nuevas reglas. Se puede ser optimista puesto que se especifica muy claramente que publicar información disponible en la esfera pública ya no es motivo de expulsión, aunque esta información se considere como protegida", nos explica Carol Rosenberg, periodista del Miami Herald, expulsada de Guantánamo el pasado mes de mayo.   El 6 de mayo de 2010, el Pentágono expulsó de Guantánamo a los periodistas canadienses Paul Koring (The Globe and Mail), Michelle Shephard (Toronto Star), Stephen Edwards (CanWest) y a su compañera estadounidense Carol Rosenberg (Miami Herald) por publicar el nombre de un testigo de las técnicas de interrogatorio practicadas al preso canadiense Omar Khadr, en 2002, antes de que testificara ante el tribunal. Se les ha concedido ahora el derecho a volver al lugar.   Optimismo relativo   No obstante, estas nuevas normas no modifican en absoluto el control militar sobre la información. El juez militar sigue capacitado para exigir a un periodista su fuente de información y demandarlo por "desacato al tribunal" en caso de que se niegue a darla.   Aunque ahora los periodistas que cubren las comisiones militares de la base puedan reunirse con el fiscal o el abogado de la defensa, la Oficina de Relaciones Públicas sigue siendo la única autoridad habilitada para autorizar o contestar a las entrevistas solicitadas por la prensa en este ámbito. "Tales consignas también aparecen en las últimas decisiones tomadas por el Departamento de Defensa en cuanto a las relaciones con los medios de comunicación. Por lo visto, el Pentágono sigue pensando filtrar de manera muy estricta la información dada a la prensa y al público. Tememos que este control termine por disuadir a la Oficina de Relaciones Públicas para que no dirija a los medios de comunicación", concluye Reporteros sin Fronteras.   Douglas B. Wilson, secretario asistente de los asuntos públicos del secretario de Defensa, destacó el 2 de septiembre, la voluntad del Pentágono de restringir el acceso de la prensa a información declarada "no autorizada", e impedir al máximo los testimonios anónimos a los medios de comunicación. Este comunicado hizo eco al que el secretario de Defensa, Robert Gates, emitió el pasado 2 de julio, en el que pedía a todos los funcionarios del Departamento de Defensa que avisasen a la Oficina de Relaciones Públicas antes de cualquier intercambio con los medios de comunicación o ciudadanos.    Benoit Hervieu Despacho Américas / Americas Desk Reporters sans frontières 47 rue Vivienne  75002 Paris - France tél : +33 (0) 1 44 83 84 68 fax : +33 (0)1 45 23 11 51 email : ameriques@rsf.org skype : rsf_americas http://www.rsf.org Reporters sans frontières assure la promotion et la défense de la liberté d'informer et d'être informé partout dans le monde. L'organisation, basée à Paris, compte neuf bureaux à l'international (Berlin, Bruxelles, Genève, Madrid, Montréal, New York, Stockholm, Vienne et Washington DC) et plus de 140 correspondants répartis sur les cinq continents.  Reporters Without Borders promotes and defends the freedom to be informed and to inform others throughout the world. Based in Paris, it has nine international offices (Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Madrid, Montreal, New York, Stockholm, Vienna and Washington DC) and more than 140 correspondents in all five continents. Reporteros sin Fronteras promueve y defiende la libertad de informar y de ser informado en cualquier lugar del mundo. La organización, ubicada en París, cuenta con nueve oficinas a nivel internacional (Berlín, Bruselas, Ginebra, Madrid, Montreal, Nueva York, Estocolmo, Viena y Washington DC) y más de 140 corresponsales en los cinco continentes.