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Peace Corps Invitee Wide Blue World writes: Our trip to Madagascar has been cancelled
Our trip to Madagascar has been cancelled. Evidently it's obvious if you look at the BBC today. The military is no longer backing the President. It would be unsafe for us to go. I'm cancelled. Suffice it to say that we are a gloomy group. Tomorrow I will fly to upstate New York since they have to fly me somewhere.
Peace Corps Invitee Wide Blue World writes: Our trip to Madagascar has been cancelled
Monday, March 9, 2009
Caption: Madagascan soldiers separate supporters of opposition leader Andry Rajoelina and President Marc Ravalomanana in the capital Antananarivo February 14, 2009. Photo: Reuters/Carl Hocquart/Files
Rome Burned Down
Wow. I spoke too soon. Five hours ago I sat at a cafe down the street from the hotel where I have met my Peace Corps group, handwriting the previous Bignes blog. Then I typed it off and went down to meet my group, only to learn:
Our trip to Madagascar has been cancelled. Evidently it's obvious if you look at the BBC today. The military is no longer backing the President. It would be unsafe for us to go. I'm cancelled. Suffice it to say that we are a gloomy group. Tomorrow I will fly to upstate New York since they have to fly me somewhere.
I do not know what happens next.
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Headlines: March, 2009; Peace Corps Madagascar; Directory of Madagascar RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Madagascar RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers
When this story was posted in March 2009, this was on the front page of PCOL:
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PCOL's Candidate for Peace Corps Director
Honduras RPCV Jon Carson, 33, presided over thousands of workers as national field director for the Obama campaign and said the biggest challenge -- and surprise -- was the volume of volunteer help, including more than 15,000 "super volunteers," who were a big part of what made Obama's campaign so successful. PCOL endorses Jon Carson as the man who can revitalize the Peace Corps, bring it into the internet age, and meet Obama's goal of doubling the size of the Peace Corps by 2011.
Director Ron Tschetter: The PCOL Interview
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Some PCVs return to Bolivia on their own
Peace Corps has withdrawn all volunteers from Bolivia because of "growing instability" and the expulsion of US Ambassador Philip Goldberg after Bolivian President Evo Morales accused the American government of inciting violence in the country. This is not the first controversy surrounding Goldberg's tenure as US ambassador to Bolivia. Latest: Some volunteers have returned to Bolivia on their own to complete their projects.
PCVs Evacuated from Georgia
The Peace Corps has announced that all Volunteers and trainees serving in the Republic of Georgia are safe and they have been temporarily relocated to neighboring Armenia. Read the analysis by one RPCV on how Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili believed that he could launch a lightning assault on South Ossetia and reclaim the republic without substantial grief from Moscow and that Saakashvili's statements once the war began demonstrated that he expected real Western help in confronting Russia.
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