[news] Jean-Pierre Kingsley to IFES

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The Globe [notes in passing][1] that Jean-Pierre Kingsley, Canada's old Chief Electoral Officer, is off to join the International Federation for Electoral Systems (IFES).

Dominion contributor Anthony Fenton has done a fair bit of work exposing IFES and its role in the overthrow of Haitian democracy. A little [background][2]:  


> IFES successfully co-opted human rights groups, lawyers, and journalists, and "set the groundwork" for the creation of the Group of 184 business-led political opposition to Aristide.
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    [1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070131.wkingsley31/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070131.wkingsley31
    [2]: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8277
    [3]: http://mostlywater.org/node/17091

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/17091