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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bill Clinton: Haiti has violent future

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iqxb2LGnPl3_Hfsqxg7IZAKbtteQ

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton commented that Haiti's future will turn violent and corrupt during the attempt to rebuild the nation. "I'm 63 years old," he said. "Do you think I'd commit the next five years of my life to working down there if I thought it was a losing enterprise?"

Friday, April 16, 2010

9 missionaries freed from Haitian jail, 1 remains


http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/16/haiti.missionaries/?hpt=T2

Ten American missionaries were jailed in Haiti after being accused of trying to kidnap 33 Haitian children after the January earthquake. Nine of these have just been released.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Haiti quake death toll examined


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8510900.stm

The January 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti caused many more deaths than other recent earthquakes of its caliber. Why? This article explains.

First Lady Michelle Obama visits Haiti

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8618445.stm

First Lady Michelle Obama visited Haiti. Her trip was focused on visiting projects set up since the January 2010 earthquake.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Rapper Wyclef fights to keep Haiti in the news


http://yele.org/;jsessionid=FB08E2D0353231397B527FE19273B18C.web114

Rapper Wyclef Jean (originally from Haiti) has been working hard since the earthquake to ensure that the world doesn't forget about Haiti. His blog shares interesting information about how to keep Haiti in the news.

Shakira visits children of Haiti


http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1635863/20100412/shakira.jhtml

Music star Shakira visited Haiti on Sunday to kick-off her pledge to build a school for the nation's underprivileged children.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Floods hit Haiti

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8541361.stm

Residents of the Haiti quake camps were told to brace for an unusually harsh hurricane season coming ahead. With that warning came a downpour Wednesday that flooded several of those camps, killing at least eight people.

What's up down there?


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002075-503544.html

When Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, from Florida, traveled to Haiti earlier this week, she wasn't happy with what she found. "We didn't see the Red Cross anywhere, at all," she said.

Port au Prince: City for the rich or poor?



http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/04/08/fatal_magnetism_of_the_city/

Is Port au Prince a city of wealthy elites or poor beggars? That is the recent question looming over Haiti's capital city.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Haitian refugees jailed for lacking Visas



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01detain.html

In this New York Times article, Nina Bernstein discusses a problem currently facing Haitians who were brought to safety outside their home country after the January earthquake. Some of these people are now being detained or even jailed for not having U.S. Visas, even though U.S. Marines were the ones who brought them to the country in the first place.