Marina Jimenez: 180 on Haiti

February 10, 2007

Marina Jimenez: 180 on Haiti

Back in September, the Globe and Mail's Marina Jimenez published a ridiculous attack on a Lancet study that showed the extent of the political violence that followed the Canadian-backed 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti. The Dominion pointed this out in a media analysis piece.

Now, four months later, Marina Jimenez (to her partial credit) has published a piece noting that after reviewing the study, the Lancet has found that the study was in fact sound, and the editorial board of the prestigious medical journal stands by its conclusions.

That leaves Nicholas Galletti of Rights and Democracy, who told Jimenez back in September that the study was based on "flawed methodology". Now that the study has been peer-reviewed and investigated, perhaps Mr. Galletti--whose organization has called for more UN raids into poor neighbourhoods after women and children were massacred by the same forces--would like to specify how, exactly, he is at variance with the opinion of the editorial board of the Lancet.